Action Greensboro, together with the Chamber of Commerce, serves as the city’s primary economic and community development group. Formed in 2000, Action Greensboro is comprised of eight local charitable foundations. In collaboration with business, higher education, and municipal government, Action Greensboro works to strengthen Greensboro’s economy and ensure the continuation of its excellent quality of…
Empowering high school males to secure employment or pursue higher education after graduation. Rescuing mothers. Redeeming lives. Empowering the next generation to be critical thinkers, champions of differences, and real-world change makers. Inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in a global economy. Transforming our community by improving literacy and promoting educational equity for people…
Cemala is an advocate for enhanced Career and Technical Education courses and programs in Guilford County. These are courses at the high school level and programs at the postsecondary sub baccalaureate level, which focus on the skills and knowledge required for specific jobs or fields of work. Aviation Ceasar Cone II, who along with his…
Union Square Campus is a $34 million project between Cone Health, Guilford Technical Community College, NC A&T State University, and the University of North Carolina Greensboro. The 7-acre campus provides transformational, next-level state-of-the-art laboratories and clinical settings for nurses (associate, bachelor and doctoral degree levels) and healthcare providers. Cemala provided a combined $1.5M towards the…
Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts will be a state-of-the-art facility with a seating capacity of approximately 3,000. The venue will be located in downtown Greensboro at the site surrounded by North Elm and East Lindsay Streets and Abe Brenner Place. Expected to open in Spring 2020, the Tanger Performing Arts Center will provide…
Center City Park, located in the heart of downtown Greensboro, fills the block between North Elm and North Davie Streets and is bordered on the south by West Friendly Avenue and on the north by the Renaissance Tower office building. Sharing opposite sides of North Davie Street, LeBauer Park and Center City Park form a…
The National Smart Start Conference is the nation’s largest conference devoted to early education systems and strategies. Held annually in Greensboro, the conference provides advanced professional development for early education leaders committed to improving the quality of an access to early childhood services for all children ages birth to five. The Cemala Foundation had provided…
Miriam P. Brenner Children’s Museum’s mission is to engage all children and families in hands-on, fun learning experiences which contribute to their growth and development through play, creation, outdoor exploration, and STEM experiences. Cemala is committed to supporting opportunities to enhance the brain growth of the youngest children; consequently, it has funded more than $1.3…
Cemala provided a $1 million dollar grant over the course of seven years to support the construction of a 5-star child care center housed at the Royce and Jane Reynolds Center for Worship and Boys & Girls Club on Freeman Mill Road in Greensboro. This center opened in September 2016. The Child Care Center has…