In 2004, Pete Burridge and a team of professionals from a branding and marketing firm called Greenhouse Partners got together with the goal of creating a non-profit organization that would have a broad transformative social impact. Together they realized that by helping promising young students achieve their full potential, they could create a community of leaders with the ability to face the most pressing social problems of the present and future. These students would become a community of leaders who would evolve the communities of the world. This vision became Greenhouse Scholars.
In 2005, Greenhouse Scholars officially launched. In our first year, we accepted three Scholars into the program. As word of our unique Whole Person© approach spread, we received enthusiastic support from high schools and community leaders. During our second year of operation, the number of Scholars in our program more than tripled.
Today, Greenhouse Scholars is a progressive force for education, community, and leadership. With an endowment and donors who continue to support our program year after year, we are focused on developing a scholarship program that address the shortcomings in the current student financial support system.