Tomorrow Night: A Green Carpet Success!

On Thursday, November 5, Greenville Forward hosted its second annual "Tomorrow Night" celebration. This year, the event featured a "green carpet" theme highlighting some of the environmental goals of Vision 2025. To hone in on the theme and to provide a creative entrance to the Huguenot Mill of the Peace Center, we actually created a green carpet with sod donated by Super Sod that was later used to repair the yard in front of Greenville Forward's office.

The evening was an immense success as we transformed two empty rooms with gorgeous rafters, original mill flooring and windows into an elegant but simple celebration of Greenville's history and future. Marie Tanner of Manly Street Design donated creative consultation to help us use sustainable, but beautiful decorations. Saffron's Cafe and Catering also created an entirely local menu with certified South Carolina organic foods. It was incredibly tasty, too!

Shannon Robert from the Warehouse Theatre also created a sculpture for Greenville Forward that was stunning and a great focal point for our guests when they first arrived. It is now gracing our conference room with its presence so feel free to stop by and check it out.

We had 150 guests that came to view our nonprofit showcase of other nonprofits in the area, participate in our Wine Auction and to hear the results of our annual "Heroes Next Door"

award winners. This, to me, was the highlight of the evening as we honored four very deserving individuals with our iconic "bronze hands" award.

And, we will be able to continue to honor these winners with an article describing their service in next month's issue of Greenville Business Magazine. They are Norma Guzzardo of Safe Harbor, Hasker Hudgens of Operation Greenville Outreach, and Lynn and Linda Tompkins of The Triune Mercy Center. We had 50 nominations from various individuals and nonprofits in the area and found these recipients to be very worthy of such recognition.

"Tomorrow Night" offers Greenville Forward the chance to show the Greenville community why a visionary organization forms an essential part of a region's future fabric. We look forward to next year's celebration and honoring three more spectacular individuals for our Heroes Next Door Awards.