Digital Angels Allen Hackman Digital Angels helps those in the community with limited financial resources to obtain the digital literacy skills needed to obtain employment in today’s digital economy. Digital Angels serves as the “Digital Angel” along the journey to digital literacy by providing a computer, internet access, digital literacy training, and career mentorship.
Queen City Unity Jorge Millares Queen City Unity is a nonprofit organization focused on driving equity and equality in Charlotte. Two studies ranked Charlotte 50th out of 50 major cities for upward mobility and as the most segregated school system in North Carolina. Queen City Unity’s community programs directly address these staggering statistics through cultural integration…
A Better World Kamilah North A Better World‘s mission is to rescue at-risk kids in West Charlotte from lives of despair by enriching their physical, mental and spiritual development. This after-school program does more than just help kids raise their grades. The goal is to elevate the trajectory of kids’ lives by providing a range…
Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte Beth Morrison Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte works to preserve affordable homeownership by partnering with communities in need, mobilizing community volunteers and skilled trade professionals to provide critical home repairs for low-income homeowners. These repairs restore the safety and health of homes for vulnerable residents, allowing them to stay in their…
Workers Collaborative Center Jose Hernandez Paris A program of Latin American Coalition The Workers Collaborative Center serves day laborers, often ignored members of our community, who wait for work on street corners through hot summer days and snow in the winter, demonstrating an incredible commitment to providing for their families. The Center offers not just the…
INTech Camp for Girls is the winner of our second annual SEED20 Community Vote! For fourteen days, the community-at-large was invited to cast a vote of confidence for one of the organizations in the SEED20 Class of 2018! At SEED20 OnStage, we announced that INTech Camp for Girls was the winner of the $1,000 SEED20 Community Vote!…
JA Company Program Amanda Griffin A program of Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Junior Achievement (JA) offers K-12 programs that inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. The JA Company Program helps students fill a need or solve a problem by creating, launching and operating their own start-up business while developing the…
Voted on by all forty volunteer coaches from our community and twenty student ambassadors and young professionals from Davidson College who worked with the SEED20 Class of 2018, the $5,000 SEED20 Coaches’ Award is truly a special award! The coaching teams and nonprofits spend a lot of quality time together during the SEED20 journey – not only as individual…
Toolbag for Success Frances Hall A program of Beatties Ford Road Vocational Trade Center Beatties Ford Road Vocational Trade Center provides construction craft training and professional mental health and substance abuse counseling to young men ages 16 and up who are unemployed, underemployed or re-entering the community from incarceration. We prepare our students for construction trade…
Our dynamic judging panel — comprised of Jay Bilas, Corri Smith, and Jason Terrell — selected the $7,500 3rd Place Award Winner. We caught up with Sam Fleming, Executive Director of 100 Gardens, about the impact of winning at SEED20. SEED20 is the best “program” type of experience we have participated in. After doing accelerators and similar…
The Bulb Alisha Pruett The Bulb Mobile Markets aim to reduce food waste and increase food security in Charlotte by providing local and rescued food, as well as education on health and wellness. Through partnerships with local farmers, chefs, and other non-profits, a “resource” market is formed where vulnerable individuals are given access to services to…
Our dynamic judging panel — comprised of Jay Bilas, Corri Smith, and Jason Terrell — selected the $12,500 2nd Place Award Winner. We caught up with Cole Monroe, President of the Board of Directors of Transcend Charlotte, about the impact of winning at SEED20. These funds will help Transcend Charlotte continue to change the the lives of transgender Charlotteans. One…
