Macon, GA, Post dated July 1, 2022

MGB Inc. (“Men Giving Back”), a BIPOC-led, community-based initiative, founded in 1990, in Macon, is the recipient of a 2022 Community Foundation of Central Georgia grant from the prestigious Linda Harriet Lane Fund.

More About MGB Inc.:

Our Mission: To foster relationships between fathers and their children, their families and communities where we live; and, to provide a positive, male role model for vulnerable youth in marginalized, disenfranchised Macon-Bibb County neighborhoods.

Our Values: We have a shared vision of the organization, which is to be the catalyst for community change by empowering men who are passionately focused on the health, education of the constituents, families, and children in our community. We take authority and responsibility for our position in society and outcomes for success of our children. We are the architects of our own destiny.

More About the Linda Harriet Lane Fund:

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, Ms. Lane’s generosity lives on through the Linda Harriet Lane Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.

PURPOSE

The Linda Harriet Lane Fund supports Bibb County projects that support the advancement of education, improvement of the arts community, improvement of the health and recreation of the community, or otherwise benefit the community as a whole.

FUNDING PRIORITY

Projects should address one of the following:

• Advancement of education
• Improving the arts community
• Improving health or recreation
• Providing a benefit to the community as a whole