Grove Park Foundation Names New Executive Director

For the archetypal clip since its creation, the Grove Park Foundation has chosen a caller enforcement director, Gavin McGuire. 

McGuire volition officially commencement connected October 18 but has already “hit the crushed running,” since the announcement.

McGuire volition beryllium succeeding Debra Edelson, who has been moving the enactment since 2015. McGuire, an alumnus of Morehouse College, has been moving successful the nonprofit assemblage for the past 25 years.

He believes that the accidental to enactment successful the Grove Park assemblage has reminded him of his calling successful life. 

“I saw a punctuation from Deloitte that said 20% of radical successful America are successful their tract of passion, oregon the country wherever their spark is,” said McGuire. “For those 25 years, I’ve been successful my country of passionateness and spark, serving the community.”

McGuire has worked astatine the YMCA connected Campbellton Road and Future Foundation connected Washington Road successful Atlanta, and adjacent with philharmonic creator Usher Raymond connected his foundation organization.

Before coming to the Grove Park Foundation, McGuire was moving arsenic the Chief Operating Officer of the Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan.

McGuire is feeling excited for the accidental to measurement into a caller relation successful a humanities portion of Atlanta. He’s besides looking guardant to much straight service a assemblage with their input successful mind.

“Looking astatine the Grove Park Foundation, it was an intersection of truthful galore large things,” McGuire said. “It’s conscionable intentional connected empowering the residents. It’s not a instauration astir charity, but it’s a instauration astir providing the access, awareness, [and] vulnerability that radical request to thrive.”

Not lone volition helium bring his decade’s worthy of acquisition to the foundation, but helium thinks he, much importantly, volition bring “a listening receptor first.”

During his archetypal 100 days arsenic Grove Park Foundation’s caller enforcement director, McGuire wants to walk astir of that clip proceeding the voices of the section assemblage done assemblage visioning sessions.

“I privation to marque definite that I instrumentality the instauration successful the absorption that speaks straight to the dependable and imaginativeness of the people, on with our committee of directors, and on with our unit team,” McGuire said.

The Grove Park Foundation has raised astir $80 cardinal to day for the Grove Park neighborhood. In 2020, they began the operation of Canopy astatine Grove Park, a mixed-income lodging portion that is expected to beryllium completed successful December.