Staff Report
Published Jan. 27, 2012

IBM Corp. provided more than $67,000 to the Greenville Family Partnership, or GFP, through grants in the past year.

IBM provided a workshop worth $30,000 for the partnership’s Greenville Safe Communities Coalition on Internet safety, and an evaluation of the partnership’s use of social media and recommendations for improvement.

IBM provided a $35,000 grant for the use of LotusLive to facilitate collaboration and provide online training. IBM’s LotusLive offers online collaboration tools, email and social networking services that work together to reduce IT costs and increase productivity.

The company also granted $1,500 to support Hispanic parenting programs and employee contributions.

“IBM’s continued support of GFP throughout the years is unprecedented,” said Carol Reeves, the partnership director. “We have had several board members who are employees of the corporation who have helped to connect us with needed resources to improve our ability to work for our mission to help keep children and youth from using alcohol, tobacco and other harmful substances.”

“GFP performs vital services in our region and IBM is proud to support GFP with time, talent and software solutions,” said Jerry Denman, IBM engineer and senior state executive.

Greenville Family Partnership is a local nonprofit whose mission is to help youth make safe and healthy choices by partnering with families, schools, businesses and communities.