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Piedmont Triad Region

As the number one furniture manufacturer on the Eastern Seaboard, the Piedmont Triad region receives international attention. Besides its fame for beautiful furnishings, this area is home to the FedEx Mid-Atlantic Hub (scheduled to open June 2009), 11 four-year colleges and universities, and nine community colleges.

The Piedmont Triad region has successfully landed industries on the local, regional, national, and international levels because of the ideal combination of location and physical infrastructure for industries such as manufacturing, retail trade, service-based companies, government, financial institutions, construction, transportation, and warehousing and wholesale trade.

However, the rural areas of the Piedmont Triad face challenges in the area of educational attainment. Workers in this region have historically earned sustainable wages with jobs requiring only a low skill level, and these jobs are disappearing. Also, the region has no single anchor city, and, therefore, regionalism and collaboration are even more important for growth.

Golden LEAF has funded projects affecting rural communities in the areas of job training, job creation and retention, tourism, research, and agriculture.

"Golden LEAF’s grants have supported the Workforce Training facility to be shared by the Caswell County Schools and Piedmont Community College, which will be a key to the further development of our region." - Dr. Jim Owens, Piedmont Community College and Dr. Douglas Barker, Caswell Community College