Press Release

Macon, GA, 6/21/2023

The Board of Directors, of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, announced that MGB INC., a BIPOC community-based organization has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Linda Harriet Lane Fund, which is a component of the Community Foundation. This grant is for the project, “Kings Park Community Resilience Project”.

The Community Foundation of Central Georgia was founded in 1993 by a group of citizens interested in encouraging philanthropy and strengthening communities. Since then, the Foundation has awarded more than $90 million in grants in furtherance of the Foundation’s mission to enhance the quality of life for the people in Central Georgia.

Linda Harriet Lane was a Macon native.  She graduated from Vassar College in 1950 where she received a Liberal Arts degree, and then she received a Master of Music degree from Indiana State University.  After studying under pianists in New York, she returned to Macon where she began her tenure at Wesleyan College as Instructor of Piano in 1954 and eventually became Associate Professor of Music.  She continued her distinguished teaching and performing career for more than 30 years.  In 1995, Wesleyan College honored Linda with the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts.  She was an accomplished concert pianist, and she played with the Macon, Atlanta and Savannah Symphonies and performed abroad.  Above all else, she valued education, music, arts and culture, and travel.  Today, Linda’s generosity lives on through the Linda Harriet Lane Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.