# George Esser

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**George Hyndman Esser Jr.** (c. 1921 in [Norton, Virginia](/source/Norton,_Virginia) – November 5, 2006, in [Chapel Hill, North Carolina](/source/Chapel_Hill,_North_Carolina)) was an American [civil rights](/source/Civil_rights) [advocate](/source/Advocate) who led the [North Carolina Fund](/source/North_Carolina_Fund) at the request of then-[governor](/source/Governor) [Terry Sanford](/source/Terry_Sanford) in the 1960s.

## Career

After law school, he joined the Institute of Government at the [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill).

In 1963 Sanford asked Esser to run NC Fund, which in its five years established community action agencies across the state.

He brought [Nathan T. Garrett](/source/Nathan_T._Garrett) to the NC Fund, and Garrett later founded he Foundation for Community Development.

Esser later was a program adviser for the [Ford Foundation](/source/Ford_Foundation), executive director of the Southern Regional Council in [Atlanta](/source/Atlanta,_Georgia) and executive director of the National Academy of Public Administration in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington,_D.C.)

He received the North Carolina Philanthropy Award in 1995.

## External links

- [Oral History Interview with George Esser](http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/L-0035/menu.html) from [Oral Histories of the American South](http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/)
- [Finding Aid: Billy E. Barnes Photographic Collection, 1959-1996](https://web.archive.org/web/20131123132915/http://www2.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/inv/P0034/P0034.html), in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, [UNC-Chapel Hill](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill)

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