Meet Our 2025 Unite Charlotte Partners 

Since Unite Charlotte’s launch in 2016, dozens of grassroots organizations addressing economic mobility have received grant funding, capacity-building training and leadership development opportunities in an effort to support their mission and work, increase their impact and grow a more diverse and inclusive pipeline of nonprofit leaders in Charlotte. 

United Way’s funding, technical assistance and guidance help to stabilize and grow nonprofits, preparing them to secure additional public and private funding. The Unite Charlotte grants help ensure these grassroots nonprofits have the tools they need to be sustainable and will fill a meaningful gap in the continuum of services for the community. 

55 UNITE CHARLOTTE PARTNERS IN 2024 

UNITE CHARLOTTE FIRST YEAR 

Always Willing to Serve | To provide services and support that empower and uplift individuals and families experiencing substance abuse and mental and behavioral health disorders on their journey toward recovery, healing, and emotional well-being.  

Beauty After the Bars | To provide education and advocacy to keep women, girls and youth out of jail, prison, and the justice system.  

BirthRight Inc. | To help communities, organizations and individuals create and sustain opportunities for Black Birthing Individuals to survive and have healthy pregnancies. 

Building Hope Building Commitment Inc. | To create sustainable long-term housing solutions that empower our community to thrive to avoid homelessness.  

Da Tribe Inc. | To empower underserved and underprivileged students from PreK to 5th grade, who have been impacted by disadvantages, including COVID-19, by providing a safe, nurturing, and engaging learning environment. We aim to foster confidence and academic growth through hands-on, real-life experiences and peer learning.  

Ethiopian Community Association of Charlotte | To provide assistance to ALL persons of Ethiopian origin without regard to religion, political ideology, ethnic origin or gender in their integration into the local community and more broadly the United States.  

Fearless Brown Girls Incorporated | To empower young black and brown girls to achieve financial confidence and independence by providing fun and engaging educational programs, resources, and mentorship in Financial Literacy and Personal Development. 

Feeding Charlotte, Inc. | To rescue surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. 

Girl Flow, Inc. | To promote period positivity, menstrual health, and provide period products to teens. 

Girl Magic Incorporated | To provide youth with educational tools and promote individual growth in their education, workplace, and life, so they can achieve self-sufficiency. 

Home4Me | To provide Hope, Opportunities, Mentoring, and Education (HOME) and a sense of family to teens aging out of the foster care system and emancipated young adults, enabling foster youth to build a personalized ecosystem to successfully close the chapter on their foster care experience, avoid homelessness and navigate into a healthy, happy, and balanced lifestyle. 

iFlourish | To empower Black girls to break barriers to achieve their goals and be fearless, resilient, and self-confident leaders. 

Joshua’s Werk | To assist clients in planning strategic career moves, developing leadership skills, and finding new employment opportunities. 

KIKA’S HOUSE | To empower West Charlotte residents to transform their physical, mental, and financial well-being through innovative, community-driven programs. Our ‘Fight for Your Life’ initiatives provide fitness resources, financial education, and mentorship to address social determinants of health and advance economic mobility and racial equity.  

Power is Giving Inc. | To champion access to affordable whole food, plant-based (WFPB) nutrition as a fundamental human right and empower BIPOC families through culturally resonant, optimal wellness programs that dismantle systemic barriers to equity.  

Project 70Forward | To the support and advancement of people with disabilities. 

Project Outpour | To provide mobile showers and hygiene services to individuals moving through homelessness.  

QC Family Tree, Incorporated | To Cultivate Community for the Common Good. 

Raise a Child of the Carolinas | To expose underserved youth to academic enrichment opportunities that are not commonly available in their communities, thus inspiring them to reach their full potential. 

Rooted Heart Ministries Inc. | To offer support to families and caregivers of children newly diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) through community, education, and resources. 

Springclean Inc. | To create jobs and reduce items sent to landfill by repurposing donated textile materials. We are committed to educating and training individuals on the circular economy and paying livable wages to those who need it the most, who are often our neighbors in communities of color. 

The Boost Pad | To provide the necessary resources underrepresented founders need to create solutions, build impactful businesses and increase Charlotte’s economic mobility.  

Thrive Liberation Community Center | To provide a haven for Black youth and young adults (ages 13-30) to gather, learn, heal, and most importantly be.  

Transformations by Charlotte Angels | To walk alongside children, youth, and families in the foster care community by offering consistent support through intentional giving, relationship building, and mentorship. 

Zealous Empowering Nurturer | To promote healthy eating in the community, to offer a personal space for gardening, and to provide fresh food to community members in need. 

UNITE CHARLOTTE SECOND YEAR 

Achieving Success on Purpose, Inc. | To help underserved youth develop the emotional and social intelligence needed to counteract delinquency and refute negative social narratives. 

BFIT Big Dreams Youth, Inc. | To support the mental, physical, and social development of youth between the ages of 8-11 through healthy, diverse, enriching experiences that empower young minds and allow them to dream big! 

Changing Lives Outreach Center CDC | To decrease food insecurities by breaking the cycle of poverty. 

Charlotte Gaymers Network | To create a safe, inclusive, and vibrant space for LGBTQ+ gaymers. We strive to foster a supportive community that celebrates diversity, empowers individuals, and promotes positive gaming experiences. 

Erika’s Closet | To be a resource to those in need that are transitioning out of incarceration, individuals that are homeless and failed on hard times, with the essential items necessary for daily living and in the workforce development. 

Evolutionary Aquatics | To create an encouraging, inclusive, diverse environment that spreads throughout the recreational aquatic community.  

Freedom in Me Business Showers | To increase the success rate of new minority-owned and women-owned entrepreneurs who are new start-ups or in business for one year or less by combatting the top four reasons that new businesses fail: lack of training, money and people resources, marketing strategies and business plans. 

Generational Wealth Educators | To help families create generational legacies by promoting financial and mental wellness, investing, and homeownership in underserved communities. 

Hard Grinderz Kings Growing Kings Mentoring | To empower and educate the inner city at-risk youth using diverse mentoring programs from title one schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg region, and surrounding areas. 

Hearts for the Invisible Charlotte Coalition, Inc. | To eradicate housing inequities for people experiencing homelessness. 

Life Interventions Incorporated | To improve the quality of life for young adults by teaching them the essential life skills needed to be self-sufficient, productive members of society. 

Peoples Private Learning Center | To ensure the continuous growth of underserved students through community partnerships. 

Queen City Cocoa BEANS Incorporated | To decrease healthcare inequities and disparities in chronic disease management and prevention for families of color in the Charlotte Metro area and surrounding communities. 

Raices Latino Arts | To encourage cross-cultural understanding by educating, entertaining and challenging the community via films to foster empathy and action. 

Sojourner Truth Place | To provide business resources, direct care support, & safe gathering space for members of the BIPOC community to launch and grow their businesses or nonprofits organizations. 

StriveCLT, Inc. | To help families who aspire to increase their social capital. We provide reading, digital, financial and civic literacy education, as well as family mentoring and networking opportunities to help them reach their full potential. 

The Agape Allen’s Foundation II | To support “Any” and “All” individuals with mental, physical, social, and/or emotional challenges by providing employment opportunities and secure jobs. The Agape Allen’s Foundation serves the adolescent population up to adults that are classified with an exceptionality and/or a disability.  

The Education Over Debt Foundation | To provide scholarships to African American high school students in North Carolina attending a four-year College and University, Historically Black College and University (HBCU), and undocumented high school students of color in North Carolina on the path to citizenship attending a two-year or four-year College and University while emphasizing training on money management and wealth accumulation techniques to enhance financial literacy. 

TruSolace Community Foundation | To provide one-on-one and group therapy, interventions promoting holistic wellness, and pathways to personal and professional development. 

Youth Style Fitness, Inc. | To foster an awareness of healthy eating, exercise, and mental health to empower healthy youth development and wellness. 

UNITE CHARLOTTE THIRD YEAR 

A Brighter Day | To support children and families in Historic Hoskins by providing physical and emotional support, mentorship, and community outreach events. 

A Giving Heart Project | To serve our community and those in need in our community through engagement, encouragement, empowerment, and education. 

Barre Belle | To introduce ballet fundamentals to underserved youth in Charlotte through free dance lessons, apparel, & field trips. Our mission is to create “little dancers with big futures.” 

Center 360 | To empower youth who are at risk of disengaging from school by providing non-traditional enrichment opportunities. 

Connecting the Gap | To empower youth grieving the loss of a parent or guardian by creating mentor-based relationships to enable healthy and optimistic futures. 

Despierta | To empower and integrate newly arrived Latina immigrants to help them become self-reliant and supportive within the community. Our mission is to transform the lives of Latinas by giving them the emotional tools and life skills to find their identity and independence. 

Exposure Project Incorporated | To equip middle and high school youth with the practical tools for character and career development  by curating transformative experiences that impact future income opportunities. 

Just Do It Movement, Inc. | To educate, provide resources, and skills to individuals that will help them become self-sufficient, while empowering them beyond their circumstances. 

Let’s Talk About It – The Autism Center | To help people with Autism Spectrum Disorder, individual developmental disabilities, and other mental health disorders and their caregivers to maximize their opportunities and life experiences. 

The Frankie Mae Foundation | To advocate for the caregiver as a whole person, by providing resources for his or her physical, emotional and spiritual well-being through programs, resources and services that inform, inspire, and help improve quality of life. 

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