Serving Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the Delmarva Peninsula
The mission of the Greater Salisbury Committee is to serve as a catalyst to improve the community. Since 1967, GSC has been actively seeking sustainable solutions to the challenges that face the Greater Salisbury area. We exist at the intersection where community, people, ideas, and resources come together.
GSC has held open forums called “A Conversation With..” for prominent individuals such as Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Comptroller Peter Franchot and our Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen. They were so widely received that our next Conversation With will be the Perdue Family as they celebrate their 100th anniversary. Look for details in 2020.
GSC has been deeply involved with Wallops for many years. As a member of WIRA (Wallops Island Regional Alliance) we are working on bringing important state leaders to Wallops to discuss regionalization. We are currently working with Governor Hogan’s office and Delaware Senator Chris Coons. We are also working to help develop a day care center in the Wallops are for Navy families.
Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore is currently fundraising the $3 to $5 million needed to create a JA Finance Park here on Delmarva. A feasibility study recently prepared by BEACON at Salisbury University found that a JA Finance Park could service over 10,000 students from the area each year.
VFC empowers families with financial challenges to achieve economic and personal independence through car ownership and technical training.
This idea born by GSC Member Brandon Brittingham and support of GSC, and GSC Member and founder of Operation We Care Jeff Merritt and other community leaders a home is now under construction in Sharptown, MD for a veteran.
The Salisbury area is fortunate to have 2 major universities in our area. This project is an effort to retain some of the graduating students to stay and work in the Salisbury area. GSC is working with the Honors Program at Salisbury University to show students what is available in our community.
A collaborative effort with the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce, WCEF serves to create a strong funding foundation to bolster and support our public school system, as needed.
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TCL was launched by GSC in April, 2017. TCL is a leadership series developed in collaboration with Salisbury University’s Center for Extended and Lifelong Learning. The goal of TCL is to take future leaders and “drill them down” – if you will – on the industries, institutions, and entities that are the backbone of our community.
GSC is working closely with private entrepreneurs like Katarina Ennerfelt of Toroid and Matt Drew of Orsted. We believe that our region can be a key player in the Operations and Maintenance supply chain that will be needed over the next 20 years as Offshore Wind comes to the area. Orsted will bring the largest wind turbines in the world off the coast of Ocean City in the next five years.
Arcon Training Center has signed a contract with AIS (Advanced Industrial Solutions), one of the UK’s premier training providers, to open a specialized training facility…
Pirate’s Wharf, a western Wicomico County property with a rich history reaching back to the 1600’s, has been mostly farm fields and state-designated critical wetlands…
On Wednesday, Perdue Farms representatives presented a $150,000 grant from the Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation to Wicomico County officials to help fund construction of…
