The funding the Foundation received from the GCA allowed the Foundation to build further programming at the Otis Redding Center for Creative Arts, offer scholarships and introductory sessions for young musicians to experience lessons and workshops at the the Center, pay for a staff member to conduct the workshops, which has led to the hiring of that staff member full time as a new employee who will be the Center Director. This means that the Foundation is growing in multiple ways, including employees, programming, number of students, number of instructors, and partnerships.