• The Foundation is established to mark the 60th anniversary of GraceKennedy & Company Limited. It is a corporate endowed Foundation. Sir Herbert Duffus is named Chairman of the Board of Directors. The first Board comprised Peter Moss-Solomon, James Moss-Solomon, Christopher Bovell, Mable Tenn, Faustine Sharp, Professor Gladstone Mills, and Rev. C.S. Reid.

• The CAST (now University of Technology, Jamaica) (UTech) Scholarship is established.

• G. Arthur Brown delivers the first GraceKennedy Foundation lecture “Patterns of Development and Attendant Choices and Consequences for Jamaica and the Caribbean”. The Lecture becomes an annual event.
• Sir Herbert Duffus retires and Professor Gladstone Mills is named Chairman.
• Following the death of Carlton Alexander in 1989, GraceKennedy established the S. Carlton Alexander Memorial Fund with a grant of $4.5 million under the administration of the Foundation. This provides:
  • The Carlton Alexander Chair in Management Studies to the University of the West Indies;
  • An annual scholarship to graduates of Jamaica College tenable at the UWI and UTech in alternate years; and
  • Six bursaries annually to dependents of GraceKennedy Ltd staff. This increases the Foundation’s work in the field of education.

• The first awards of the Carlton Alexander scholarships and bursaries are made.

• Gordon Shirley becomes the first holder of the Carlton Alexander Chair
• Patricia Robinson succeeds Marjorie Humphreys as Executive Director.

• The James Moss-Solomon Snr. Chair in Environmental Management is established and entrusted to the Foundation in celebration of GraceKennedy’s 70th anniversary.

• Elizabeth Thomas-Hope is named Professor of the James Seivright Moss-Solomon Snr Chair.

• Adrian Wallace is appointed to the Board.

• Mable Tenn and VC Alister McIntyre resign from the Board and Marlene Campbell appointed.
  

• Fay Saunders and Faustine Sharp resign from the Board
  

• Bruce Rickards, former director dies. An annual scholarship is established in his memory for graduates of Kingston College tenable at the UWI and UTech in alternate years
• Professor Gladstone Mills retires as Chairman of the Board.
• Peter Moss-Solomon is appointed Chairman.
• Michele Orane and Sandra Glasgow are appointed to the Board.
• The Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary with a youth symposium– “Investing in Our Future…The Social Rewards”.

• Prof. Gordon Shirley was asked to serve as Jamaica’s Ambassador to Washington leaving the Chair unfilled for a number of years.

• The Foundation establishes a scholarship to the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts to be rotated among the four schools.

• Rev. Sam Reid retires from the Board Director Adrian Wallace dies.

• David Myrie and Radley Reid are appointed to the Board
• The Adrian Wallace Memorial Bursary is established for a Calabar 6th Form student who had excelled in the CXC exams and in sports. The trophy was accompanied with a cash award to assist the student through sixth form.

• Marlene Campbell resigns from the Board.

• Peter Moss-Solomon retires as Chairman of the Board.
• Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie is appointed Chairman
• Caroline Mahfood succeeds Patricia Robinson as Executive Director.
• The Faustine Sharp Bursary is established for a St. Andrew High School for Girls 6th Form student.

• Youth Symposium reinstated and held under the theme “Youth Finding Themselves in Modern Jamaica”

• Peter Moss-Solomon retires from the Board
• Philip Alexander and Ryan Mack are appointed to the Board
• Prof. Elizabeth Thomas-Hope retires as the James Moss-Solomon Sr. Chair in Environmental Management. Prof. Dale Webber is appointed as the new Chair
• Prof. Ian Boxill is appointed as the Carlton Alexander Chair in Management Studies
• The Foundation participates in the Government of Jamaica Debt Exchange Programme.

• Luis Fred Kennedy Environmental Foundation is wound up and the GraceKennedy Foundation assumes the assets. The Luis Fred Kennedy Fund is established.
• David Myrie and Ryan Mack resign from the Board
• Noel Greenland and Hilary Wehby are appointed to the Board

• 30th Anniversary of the Foundation
• To mark GraceKennedy’s 90th anniversary, the parent company announced the establishment of two scholarships named in honour of former chairmen and CEOs Raf Diaz and Douglas Orane.

Areas in Which We Have Made A Difference

• Accounting
• Business Admin, Finance and Banking
• Computer Studies
• Economics
• Education
• Engineering
• Hospitality and Institutional Management
• Law
• Liberal Arts
• Medicine
• Pharmacology
• The Sciences

Notable Scholarship Awardees

• Ingrid Mangatal – Law
• Roderick Gordon – Law
• Jennifer Knight-Madden – Medicine
• Marvin Reid – Medicine
• Maynard McIntosh – Opthalmology

• The Foundation continued to expand its work in education by providing over $12 million annually in scholarships and bursaries.
• Sandra Glasgow resigns from the Board
• Fred Kennedy joins the Board
• GraceKennedy Foundation, along with the parent company make a combined donation of J$1million to the development of the UWI P.E.T. Plastic Separation and Recovery Project

• GraceKennedy Jamaican Birthright Programme is reinstated. 1st cohorts arrive in July, 2015
• GraceKennedy Foundation implements recycling programme in GK subsidiaries and trains staff
• GraceKennedy Foundation coordinates the first International Coastal Cleanup Day activity for GK Foods and GK Corporate staff
• Bursary programme to final year students at Caribbean Maritime Institute studying Logistics is introduced
• Prof. Dale Webber appointed as the Grace Foods representative on the Recycle Jamaica Initiative

• GraceKennedy Foundation coordinates a plastic bottle collection initiative at ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys & Girls Champs
• Prof. Dale Webber resigns as Chair of James Moss-Solomon Snr Chair in Environmental Management and is appointed as the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies & Research, UWI, Mona.
• First cohort of GraceKennedy Jamaican Birthright interns arrive since 2008.
• The Foundation coordinates a team of GraceKennedy staff to participate in Jamaica’s 1st Climate Walk

• The Foundation coordinates a ‘Harbour Haul’ with a team of GK staff to clean up a section of the Kingston Harbour as part of GraceKennedy’s 94th anniversary celebrations.
• Prof. Mona Webber appointed Chair of the James Moss-Solomon Snr Chair in Environmental Management
• Inaugural Scholars Awards Ceremony in October, 2016
• GraceKennedy Foundation in association with the Dudley Grant Memorial Trust funds an early childhood education STEAM pilot project to  improve the quality of early childhood teaching and learning through the development of an innovative science curricula. The project focuses primarily on teacher training and parenting workshops.

• June 2017- Prof. Elsa Leo-Rhynie retires as Chair of the GraceKennedy Foundation and Dr. Fred Kennedy takes over as Chair .
• GraceKennedy is awarded ‘Top Corporate Collector’ at a single clean-up site for the 2017 International Coastal Cleanup Day.

• The STEAM project culminates in April 2018. A brochure and online learning tools are being developed.
• The Jamaica Institute for Excellence in Education (JIEE) scholarship is instituted for a final year UWI or UTECH student studying science, technology, engineering or math.
• The GK Campus Connect Programme is established in partnership with Hi-Lo Food Stores, First Global Bank, Grace Foods, GK Insurance, GraceKennedy Money Services), – to strategically align GK scholars to serve as GraceKennedy ambassadors.
• Prof Ian Boxill resigns as the S. Carlton Alexander Chair in Management.
• The Foundation begins discussions with public and private partners to establish a project that produces a long-term solution to the pollution problem in the Kingston Harbour.
• The Foundation signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the newly established Jamaica Stroke Alliance to support their initiatives.
• GraceKennedy awarded ‘Top Corporate Collector’ at a single clean-up site for the 2018 International Coastal Cleanup Day.
• Prof. Elizabeth Thomas-Hope & Fay McIntosh retire, and Noel Greenland resigns as Directors – Dr. Carol Gentles, Mr Chaluk Richards, Ms. Allision Rangolan, Ms. Deidre Cousins are appointed to the Board.

• The GK Campus Connect Food Bank opens in April 2019, providing grocery packages for UWI and UTECH students with the greatest needs
• The Foundation partners with the UTECH Financial Aid office to open a food bank on UTECH campus
• Radley Reid retires from the Board
• GraceKennedy establishes a one-off 3-year scholarship to UWI to a past student of Immaculate Conception High School in honour of their former principal, Sister Angella Harris
• GraceKennedy awarded ‘Top Corporate Collector’ at a single clean-up site for the 2019 International Coastal Cleanup Day
• The Foundation spearheads discussions with public and private entities to establish a project aimed at a long-term solution to the pollution entering the Kingston Harbour
• The report and curriculum of the GKF funded Early Childhood STEAM project, implemented by the Dudley Grant Memorial Trust, is presented at the Early Childhood Commission Conference, November 2019

• Julie Meeks-Gardner and Terry-Ann Graver appointed to the GKF Board
• The Foundation is part of a consortium that is awarded a grant by the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund valued at US $990,000 to undertake a 3-year pilot project, aimed at contributing to a long-term solution to the pollution entering the Kingston Harbour.
• GK Birthright Programme is cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
• GKF donates $2.3 Million Dollars, in support of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica (PSOJ) COVID-19 Jamaica Response Fund.
• GKF hosts its first fully virtual Annual Lecture due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• The Foundation assists with the establishment of the Jamaica Stroke Alliance, which is launched on World Stroke Day, October 29, 2020
• The Ace With Grace tutoring programme is launched, using GK scholars, to provide tutoring and homework support to students who attend the Grace and Staff Community Development Foundation Homework Centres and to children of GraceKennedy staff

• GK Birthright Programme is cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
• In April, the Foundation partners with several companies across the GK Group to raise J$14 Million to support the relief efforts in St Vincent, following several massive eruptions of the island’s La Soufrière volcano
• The Foundation partners with the ICD Group, The Multicare Youth Foundation and Kingston Creative to create a mural with an environmental theme in downtown Kingston
• GK Campus Connect Food Bank receives a new location at the UTECH campus
• Caroline Mahfood, CEO of GK Foundation, is awarded Honorary Life Member of the University of the West Indies Mona Campus Guild of Students for her longstanding contribution to education in Jamaica
• GKF assists The Ocean Cleanup, an international non-profit developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, with their baseline study on the amount of plastic and garbage entering the harbour at Hunt’s Bay, Kingston. This leads to them receiving a US$1.4 Million grant to combat the pollution entering the harbour. GKF is appointed project facilitators