1988
Giving Tree Director Libby Wright moves to Tucson.
1991
Wright's husband, Carlo Giovingo, buys a midtown house for $55,000 and opens an adult-care home. It later becomes the Giving Tree's Grace Home.
1993
Giovingo buys a midtown duplex and apartment complex.
1996
Giovingo is sued by two women who bought his Family Care I adult-care home. The suit claims Family Care's multiple Arizona Department of Health Services violations so damaged the business that it was not viable. The suit settles out of court. Giovingo retains ownership; the property later becomes Grace Home.
1996
The GT Outreach Program incorporates in Arizona, although Wright says it actually started in 1988.
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2000
Grace Home starts operating as a child-assistance program.
2003
Grace Home becomes a residential facility for women and children.
2005
GT Outreach buys a house at 4650 E. Eastland St. that it turns into the Compassion Hope Center - a church, a place to provide social services and, until August, a homeless shelter. Giovingo provides the loan to buy the house.
2007
GT Outreach buys the house next to the Grace Home.
2008
The Giving Tree buys two houses in the same midtown block to serve homeless clients. One of the purchases is financed by Giovingo.
2009
The city forces Compassion Hope Center to stop letting people stay overnight. A midtown duplex and a commercial property at 929 and 931 N. Swan Road are donated to the Giving Tree.
