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Spring 2024
More Information Coming Soon
Charlotte Equity Impact Fellowship |
Applications are now being accepted for the Charlotte Equity Impact Fellowship. This is a paid 10-month fellowship starting next month. For more information and to apply, please visit
https://loom.ly/7YVUfTg
Community Events
50 Places in Charlotte is a digital history project that tells the city’s rich story through a glimpse of fifty places throughout the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area. Places represent the past and the present through existing sites and long demolished structures and travel through time from Charlotte’s earliest history to today. Through the project, we are creating a composite map of Charlotte, its communities, and the ways it has changed over the centuries. Each week, we will share a new story of a Charlotte place through narrative and multimedia.
Project Team: Cliff Whitfield, Alexander Piñeres, Franky Abbott
View the project HERE
Celebrate the culture, traditions, and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
Asian Pacific and Asian Americans of all ethnicities and languages come together to celebrate their heritage through many activities such as dancing, sharing traditional meals, observing and appreciating their rich history.
Many more diverse beliefs and practices come with the already diversified Asian American community, with many different religions, traditions, and practices.
Parking is available at 8900 North Pointe Executive Park, Huntersville, NC 28078 with complimentary shuttle service to the festival site.
For more information, click HERE
Launched in 2011, CBI Bus Tours are intended as an innovative, interactive approach to bringing the history of Charlotte to life, while exploring how our shared history and “what’s in the ground” in our community impacts our present and our future.
The morning tour will include a robust tour of Charlotte followed by lunch at House of Prayer and further discussion.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE DATES.
In collaboration with Foundation For The Carolinas, the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits is hosting a Nonprofit Policy Conversation. This two-hour event brings together nonprofit leaders and local elected officials (mostly state legislators) to discuss public policy issues that are important to charitable nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. The Center will provide a briefing on nonprofit sector trends and potential public policy solutions and challenges for nonprofits in 2024 and beyond. The Nonprofit Policy Conversation will also include discussions about state and federal public policy issues of interest to local nonprofits and ways nonprofits can engage in the 2024 election while remaining nonpartisan.
Tickets are $25 for Members and Sustainers, $35 for all others.
We are charting a new course for Community Building Initiative, and want you to have a say in our future! Please join us on Tuesday May 21st as we implement some big picture planning with alumni from CBI programming and others. Light refreshments will be provided.
This event is free but registration is required.
As part of The Gambrell Foundation’s new initiative to invest in Ideas Worth Trying™, they are bringing Dr. Keltner to Charlotte to help us explore what role awe plays in creating a great life. They invite you to learn why everyday awe and wonder is so essential and how we can experience collective awe in our community more often.
Dacher Keltner’s research focuses the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and power, social class, and inequality. As a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab, he is a leading scholar in the study of emotion, including a new project on awe around the globe, as well as power, class, and inequality.
The event will be held at the Sandra Levine Theatre in the Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement at Queens University of Charlotte.
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The 2024 North Carolina Juneteenth Festival themed “Educating, Empowering, Entertaining” will feature over 100 black owned companies. Crafts, culture, performances, art, kids games, information and more is some of what attendees can expect. Free giveaways, discounts, and coupons make the vendor shopping experience like no other. Come support black business and black excellence. This is a family friendly free event!
For more information, click HERE
Camp Ignite is a summer camp for girls offered by the Charlotte Fire Department. Its mission is to empower young women by instilling confidence and challenging their comfort zones through an exciting experience while simultaneously building the courage necessary to overcoming life’s challenges.
Applications are being accepted now. Click HERE
Recurring Events
“Unmasked” at the Harvey B. Gantt Center
Charlotte City Council Meetings
The Community Book Read
Open books. Open minds.
Each year, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library hosts a big, exciting, community-wide book club known as Community Read.
Everyone in the community can participate: read a book, share perspectives, attend a program, engage on social media and build a stronger community together. #communityread2019
Community Read 2019 is presented by Bank of America, with additional support from Foundation For The Carolinas and Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation.
Find a Community Garden
The Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department now offers local residents the opportunity to rent their own garden space. Get your garden gloves and shovels ready and get outdoors to enjoy the harvest! If you don’t have space in your own yard, plant your flowers and vegetables at one of your local community garden spots. To get started, please fill out a community gardens application and e-mail or mail it to the address listed on the form during the registration period.
Price
Garden areas have been developed throughout the county at designated park sites that can be rented for $15-20.00/year for various plot sizes. The average Mecklenburg County garden plot is 10 foot X 10 foot. Please wait until application approval before sending payment.
Registration Periods
Currently most plots in the community gardens are full, and those plots that do become open are being filled by Mecklenburg residents who are on the plot waiting list.
Applications for garden plots are still being accepted and individuals are being added to respective garden location waiting lists.
Plot renewal occurs in late winter and early spring of each year. If individuals decide not to renew their plots or do not express an intent to renew their plots, then plots will be reassigned to those on the waiting list or a new garden applicant.
Waiting List
A waiting list will be created for gardens that reach their maximum capacity; applicants will be notified that they have been placed on the waiting list for their specific garden location.
For More Information Contact Tim Turton at Timothy.Turton@
When we join together with a diverse group of people, voices and experiences, the differences that define us as individuals create synergy and energy. Our community is stronger when we each have the knowledge, skills and courage to work for change.
Learn more about the resources that CBI provides as we work to increase both the understanding and advancement of equity in our community.
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We are excited to offer virtual community EICs throughout 2021 in partnership with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library. ...
The Charlotte Future 2040 Policy Map is a companion to the Charlotte Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan and will translate ...
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We are excited to offer virtual community EICs throughout 2021 in partnership with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library. ...
From thrilling community events to moving cultural experiences, Charlotte invites us to wake up,
interrupt, and step up in many ways. We’d love to hear what things you do!
