The Nord Family Foundation announced the list of nonprofit organizations in the fields of arts & culture, civic affairs, education, and health & social services that have been awarded grants this cycle.
At the October 26, 2024 Board of Trustees meeting, grants approved totaled $3,190,500 to be disbursed in Lorain County, Ohio; Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Columbia, South Carolina; Metro Denver, Colorado; and other areas of interest. Fifteen other actions totaling $63,213 were also ratified at the meeting bringing the total grants authorized in this round to $3,253,713. Attached is a complete list of the grants authorized by the Trustees at their recent meeting.
The Nord Family Foundation has announced JoAnn Turnquist, retired President and CEO of Central Carolina Community Foundation, as their newest community trustee.
JoAnn Turnquist recently concluded her tenure as President & CEO of Central Carolina Community Foundation, a $140 million nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting donors in the Midlands with a wide range of charitable and nonprofit organizations. Before joining the Foundation in 2009, JoAnn held various sales leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies such as Procter & Gamble, JohnsonDiversey, and The Clorox Company, where she made history as the first female Vice President for US Institutional Sales.
JoAnn has been recognized with prestigious accolades including EngenuitySC's Vision award, the South Carolina Public Relations Society of America's Executive Excellence award, and the Girl Scouts Mountains to Midlands' Woman of Distinction award. She was also honored with the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce's Palmetto Vision award for Excellence in Community Diversity and was inducted into Columbia Business Monthly's Top 50 Hall of Fame in 2018. JoAnn is a graduate of Leadership Lexington (2011) and a Riley Institute Diversity Fellow (2013).
The Nord Family Foundation is a successor to the charitable trust originally established by Walter G. Nord in 1952. The predecessor organization contributed more than $12 million to a variety of charitable causes between 1953 and 1988, primarily in Lorain County, Ohio. The Nord Family Foundation has contributed more than $171 million to nonprofit organizations in northern Ohio and selected geographic areas of family interest.
The Foundation’s grantmaking guidelines, prior press releases and Grantee Spotlight videos are available on the website. The Foundation only accepts grant applications online, accessible through the application portal on our website. The Board of Trustees of the Nord Family Foundation will meet again in February 2025. The next deadline for consideration of online grant applications is December 2, 2024.