The Ray Highlighted in "The Liberating Promise of Philanthropy"

The profound impact of industrial leadership and public-private corridor innovation is featured prominently in the book The Liberating Promise of Philanthropy.

The publication explores the roots of regional development and highlights the enduring vision behind our testing grounds, noting:

“Ray C. Anderson was the founder of the modular carpet-making giant Interface and perhaps the state’s leading business-based pioneer. After Anderson’s death in 2011, the Georgia legislature named an eighteen-mile stretch of interstate highway in west Georgia’s Troup County after him. Soon thereafter, his daughter, Harriet, and other family members set out to make the highway (nicknamed ‘The Ray’) a living laboratory for Anderson’s forward-thinking philosophy.”