The Center for Community Transitions

Myra Clark

For the past 40 years, The Center for Community Transitions has focused on building people, not prisons. They help those exiting prison find work, rejoin their families, and identify who they want to be.

Sustain Charlotte

Shannon Binns

Sustain Charlotte‘s mission is to educate, engage, and unite Charlotte’s citizens and organizations to overcome Charlotte’s sustainability challenges.

Mothers Raising Sons

Michelle Houts

The mission of Mothers Raising Sons is to establish, educate, and empower proper guidance for positive family structure, targeting low-to-moderate income single females raising boys who are at-risk in kindergarten through high school graduation.

McClintock Partners in Education

Amy Daniels

McClintock Partners in Education (McPie) is a community outreach program of Christ Lutheran Church. They seek to build bridges by instilling in volunteers and supporters an understanding of the challenges facing those living in poverty.

Let Me Run

Ashley Armistead

Let Me Run is a nonprofit program aimed at strengthening boys in body and spirit. Their mission is to encourage boys to stay on track to reach their full potential by inspiring healthy friend, family, and community relationships.

Exodus Foundation

Madeline McClennney

Exodus Foundation is helping Charlotte improve public health and safety using highly trained mentors matched with highly motivated persons with criminal records.

Easter Seals UCP North Carolina & Virginia

Amanda Hogan

Easter Seals UCP North Carolina & Virginia is a lifelong partner to families managing disabilities and mental health challenges. They seek to build and equip a Multi-Sensory Environment room at the Charlotte Children’s Center for children with developmental disabilities.

CARS Inspiring Youth

Jackie Taylor

CARS Inspiring Youth is an urban education group that brings reentry educational opportunities into struggling communities, developing high school non-graduates into highly skilled trade workers through months of inspiring GED curriculum built around a new style of teaching.

The Relatives

Brennon D. Graham

The Relatives has a long history as the only shelter for youth in Mecklenburg County who have run away from home, are homeless, or whose safety is at risk. The On Ramp program serves those who age out of foster homes to prevent these youth from aging into homelessness, prison, or worse because they have not been equipped with the resources to survive on their own.

Sow Much Good

Robin Emmons

Sow Much Good is committed to growing healthy communities in underserved neighborhoods by providing direct access to fresh, affordable food; educating and engaging residents to adopt healthy eating habits; and advocating for the right of every person to have real food security.