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In 1998, Joan Kroc donated $87 million (equivalent to $163 million in 2023) to the Salvation Army to build and endow the first Kroc Center in San Diego, California, on what was an abandoned grocery store and other empty land. The center opened in June 2002.
The Kroc Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is a nearly $70 million investment in the community set among 12 acres (49,000 m 2). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Kroc Center houses four major components: a center of worship and performance venue, an aquatics center, a fitness and recreation center, and special event facilities as well as arts, education, and ...
The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Ashland is ready to help you achieve your goals in 2024. The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Ashland is ready ...
When she died in 2003, Joan Kroc stunned the Salvation Army when she left what amounted to $1.8 billion — roughly half her fortune —with instructions to carry out her wish for the centers.
The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center received a grant from Sutton Bank to support the Emergency Assistance Program.
Upon her death in 2003, her remaining $2.7 billion estate was distributed among a number of nonprofit organizations, including $1.5 billion donation to The Salvation Army to build 26 Kroc Centers, along with a $200 million donation to National Public Radio as she believed deeply in the power of public radio.
GREEN BAY - The Salvation Army of Greater Green Bay has welcomed its new leaders, Majs. Jonathan and Catherine Fitzgerald, to its Green Bay Corps Community Center and Kroc Community Center.
In 2002, Kroc Center, a large Salvation Army community center that she helped fund—to the tune of $87 million—opened to the public. She later bequeathed an additional $1.6 billion to open Salvation Army Kroc Centers across the nation, the largest one-time gift ever recorded.