Nettie Coad

Nettie Coad, as the executive director of The Partnership Project, manages the sub-contract with UNC and the CCARES field office to coordinate the activities of The Collaborative pertaining to interpretation and dissemination of CCARES findings to the Greensboro community. Prior to serving as a community organizer for Project Greensboro, the parent organization of The Partnership Project, she worked for 22 years in various management capacities for Sears Catalog Distribution Center. She is a trainer for the People’s Institute and serves on a broad array of community boards, including The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, The Affordable Housing Group of North Carolina, the City of Greensboro Re-Development Commission and the Kernodle Scholarship Selection Committee. She is a former trustee for the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation. Mrs. Coad has been a leader and organizer in her Greensboro neighborhood for over 28 years, serving eight terms as President of the Board for her neighborhood association. In that capacity, she successfully organized her neighborhood to: prevent the widening of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; restore historic property, build the Kids Incorporated Day Care Center and assume management of a multi-family housing unit, which has been named the “Nettie Coad Apartments” in her honor.