1969-1990
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1969
Annie E. Casey Foundation estatablishes its Atlanta Civic Site.
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1969
The Tax Reform Act, signed by President Nixon, solidifies the distinction between grantmaking and service providing institutions. "Private foundations" are defined by the government.
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1969
In response to the passage of the Tax Reform Act, 24 foundation leaders meet to establish Southeastern Council on Foundations.
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1970
The population of the 11 Southeastern states totals 42.1 million.
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1970
75 foundation representatives gather for SECF's first annual meeting.
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1970
William H. Bondurant begins two-year service as volunteer executive director of SECF.
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1970
SECF membership consists of 13 foundations.
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1970
More than half (61 percent) of Southerners live in a metro area, an early sign of the shift of a rural South to a more urban South that will continue in the coming decades.
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1970
Census data show that more than 1.4 million Black people left the South, mostly re-settling in the urban cities in the North.
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1971
The Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds busing as a way to advance integration of public schools.
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1972
Charles S. Rooks becomes first full-time executive director of SECF.
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1973
Maynard Jackson elected as first Black mayor of Atlanta.
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1976
Jimmy Carter of Georgia becomes President of the United States. He brings veterans of the Civil Rights Movement and a new biracial Democratic politics of the South to the White House.
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1976
The Arkansas Community Foundation, the only state-wide community foundation in the South, is established primarily by a lead grant of $258,000 from the Winthop Rockefeller Foundation. The foundation now manages some $335,000,000 in assets.
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1977
IRS issues new regulations about Donor Advised Funds.
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1977
Charles S. Rooks writes Foundation Philanthropy in the Southeast.
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1978
Robert Hull becomes executive director of SECF.
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1980
Why Establish a Private Foundation is published.
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1981
SECF begins accepting corporate grantmaking programs as members.
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1983
Dr. George Hitchings, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and served on the SECF board, establishes the Triangle Community Foundation with $1,000.
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1984
Mott Foundation awards the first of more than $2.4 million in challenge grants over a 10-year period to build the capacity of community foundations in seven Southeastern states.
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1986
As recently as 1986, a Gallup Poll conducted for the Joint Center of Political Studies found that 75 percent of philanthropy dollars in the black community are funneled through religious institutions, and that most volunteer activities of blacks are centered around the church. African-American church-based philanthropy greatly benefitted from the growth of the mega-churches which first emerged during the 1980s.
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1986
Council on Foundations launches National Agenda for Community Foundations.
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1987
Walton Family Foundation established in Arkansas by Sam and Helen Walton, whose fortune came from Wal-mart stores.
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1990
The population of the 11 Southeastern states totals 57.5 million.
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1990
Martha Peck elected as first female chair of SECF.
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1990
SECF board adopts first strategic plan.
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1990
The Foundation for the Mid South is created as a regional development foundation serving Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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1990s
Health Legacy Foundations begin to emerge in the South, as a result of the purchase of local hospitals and health care plans by for-profit corporations.