The Parham Legacy of Care Society honors the example set by Dr. Jack Parham and his family. Dr. Parham repeatedly demonstrated how generosity fuels meaningful changes in our community. His compassion and generosity started multiple ripple effects that are still helping people in their time of need.
The Parham Legacy of Care Society builds on that momentum by offering you a powerful way to leave a legacy of care, healing, and hope. The society recognizes, honors, and celebrates visionary individuals who are making a commitment to the future of our community.
Dr. Parham’s Legacy of Care
Dr. Jack Parham left a legacy of care, evidenced by the positive change he created in the Greenwood community because he cared for its people.
In the 1960’s he took decisive action to facilitate access to quality healthcare for all races. During a dangerous delivery in a substandard hospital, he transferred his patient to a better but segregated hospital, saving her baby’s life and most probably her own.
Dr. Parham was the driving force that resulted in the first local Hospice care facility, which has blessed the end-of-life experience for so many people and their families.
The United Center for Community Care is yet another product of his generosity and vision for a centralized location where people in need find vital community resources under one roof.
Dr. Jack’s leadership lovingly nurtured Greenwood Pathway House from its humble beginnings into an innovative homeless ministry that helps hundreds of individuals and families obtain homes, and productive lives, free from the indignities of homelessness.
In the true spirit of the Gospel’s Good Samaritan, he showed kindness to everyone he met. He was constantly volunteering to help others through his church, the Soup Kitchen, his Rotary Club, Connie Maxwell, the Boy Scouts, Young Life, the American Cancer Society, and the Greenwood Genetic Center.
Usually at his insistence, there were relatively few plaques and ornamentations erected to commemorate his profound influences, yet his name is written indelibly on the hearts of thousands of people he touched in some form or fashion, always for the better, always with care.
Membership
This is your invitation to fuel meaningful change in our community. Join the Parham Legacy of Care Society by making an annual donation(s) of $5,000 or more to Greenwood Pathway House or the Greenwood Pathway House Foundation. Your generosity will ripple through our community in an ever widening circle of compassion.
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