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Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with Don Flow, Immediate Past Chair of the Golden LEAF Foundation Board of Directors via Zoom and filmed an episode of Critical Conversations.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2024 @ 1:14 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $650,000 to support two projects through the Open Grants Program and $3,080,000 to support five projects through the SITE Program.
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2024 @ 10:04 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C., (October 5, 2023) – Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $1,949,100 to support five projects through the Open Grants Program.
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 @ 1:29 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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DeSantis vows to fight for the middle class and take on the elites, DC bureaucrats, and Communist China to put the American Dream back within reach
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 10:45 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded a total of $5,417,644 million in funding.
Published: Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 1:26 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $10,248,815 in funding to support projects through the Community-Based Grants Initiative in the Southeast Prosperity Zone and $1,549,997 in funding
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 11:20 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C., (October 6, 2022) – Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $443,000 in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 @ 1:18 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina is home to a number of funding institutions supporting strategies necessary for economic growth.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 12:30 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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After the devastating impact of Hurricane Matthew in 2016, the N.C. General Assembly appropriated funds to Golden LEAF to help communities recover by restoring critical government services.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 12:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $445,582 in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program and $1,382,782.18 to support rural broadband to community anchor institutions through MCNC.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 10:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Golden LEAF Board of Directors awards $50 million to support North Carolina’s first car manufacturerRecently, Governor Roy Cooper announced that North Carolina has landed its first car manufacturer, VinFast, a Vietnamese electric car manufacturer.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 6:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $10,108,307 in funding to support projects through the Community-Based Grants Initiative in the Western Prosperity Zone, $1.1 million in funding through the Economic Catalyst Program and $998,924.36 in funding through the Open Grants Program.
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2022 @ 1:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Board of Directors established the Golden LEAF Scholarship Program as a workforce strategy to broaden educational opportunities for students from rural counties.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 2:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Golden LEAF’s first controller, Beth Edmondson, will be retiring in January 2022. Beth has served as the Controller since 2004, providing 17 years of service to Golden LEAF and the long-term economic advancement of North Carolina.
Published: Monday, December 13th, 2021 @ 8:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Governor announced on Monday that Toyota will build its first North American battery manufacturing plant for a new generation of vehicles in North Carolina. The new facility, located at the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite, will include at least 1,750 new jobs and private capital investment.
Published: Friday, December 10th, 2021 @ 2:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Golden LEAF Foundation awards funds to provide scholarships for both high school and community college transfers entering a four-year college or university in North Carolina as well as for rural students attending community college in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2021 @ 11:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the President of the United States and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom reaffirm their commitment to work together to realise our vision for a more peaceful and prosperous future.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2021 @ 11:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On June 30, Governor Cooper announced Elkay Corporation will construct and equip a new distribution facility and create 20 new jobs.
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 8:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $2.4 million in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program, Community-Based Grant Initiative, and Disaster Recovery Grant Program.
Published: Friday, June 11th, 2021 @ 7:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $2,099,350 for workforce training and infrastructure projects to support economic growth in rural areas of the state.
Published: Friday, February 5th, 2021 @ 3:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Welcome to the latest edition of LEAF Lines
Published: Friday, January 29th, 2021 @ 3:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As famously said by former president Barak Obama, the best anti-poverty program is a job. In North Carolina, as of June 2019, there were 1.21 open jobs for every unemployed person on the job market.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 @ 1:55 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement (IDEA) Act of 2019 would close these gaps by directing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to collect demographic data from patent applicants on a voluntary basis.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:03 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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President Obama has announced that, through executive order, he will be changing the rules regarding which employees have to be given overtime pay for working more than 40 hours per week. Under current regulations, all hourly employees who work more than 40 hours must be paid...
Published: Friday, March 28th, 2014 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Women in this country put in 100% of the work that men do - but get paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man receives.
Published: Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 @ 3:44 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Yesterday, the Governor released his state budget plan for the next two fiscal years. I regret to inform you that the plan would divert all of the funds that the Golden LEAF Foundation would normally receive beginning in April 2014 and thereafter.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 @ 9:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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