Community Foundation of Central Georgia highlights growth, grants and community programs

Catherine Dennis, president of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, told Makin' It podcast listeners the foundation has grown from roughly $21.5 million in assets when she arrived in 2002 to a larger, more diversified endowment supporting local grants and initiatives. "We give away almost I think this year, we had 225 scholarships, about half $1,000,000," Dennis said, urging seniors to apply by the Feb. 28 deadline at cfcga.org.

Dennis described several multiyear grant programs that helped catalyze downtown investment. She said Knight Foundation provided approximately $5 million over five years for the Knight Neighborhood Challenge, and that a combination of public and private investments tied to the College Hill Corridor plan ultimately totaled in the hundreds of millions in local redevelopment and economic activity. The…