From the Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts to the Philip Heit Center for Healthy New Albany, the New Community Foundation is bringing vital resources.
Standing on the top step of the entrance to the Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts, one can see the Georgian-style bricks on the north-facing side of the Philip Heit Center for Healthy New Albany. These two buildings, separated by a very short distance directly across Dublin-Granville Road, are now connected by the new Rose Run Park paths and pedestrian bridge. Their origin stories and significance to the New Albany community, however, have always been connected thanks to the New Albany Community Foundation.
In the early 2000s, the NACF determined four areas, now known as the four pillars, where the foundation would focus its impact: lifelong learning, health and wellness, arts and culture, and environmental sustainability. In pursuit of these pillars, the foundation often serves as a convener, gathering the right civic and private entities to help turn ideas into reality. The foundation plays this role for both the McCoy Center, which opened in 2008, and the Heit Center, which opened in 2015….Read the full article at CitySceneColumbus.com