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Charlotte, a New South city, is focusing on Growing Smart, Growing Strong. The community is addressing the challenges of its impressive growth by connecting residents with one another to solve difficult problems and to identify creative, diverse leaders. It is also nurturing the neighborhoods, events and cultural life that provide the sense of place that attracts newcomers.

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The 2009 Soul of the Community Survey explores the link between residents' emotional ties to where they live and the community's economic growth. Three main factors emotionally attach residents to Charlotte: openness (how welcoming a place is), aesthetics (an area’s physical beauty and green spaces) and education (public K-12 school and colleges and universities).

See survey details for Charlotte at http://www.soulofthecommunity.org/charlotte .

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Charlotte News Releases

Monday, February 1, 2010: National Contest Calls on Community Foundations for Local Information Experiments
Wednesday, January 13, 2010: Knight Foundation Spurs New Round of Local News and Information Projects Nationwide
Thursday, January 7, 2010: Knight Foundation Commits $70 Million to Community Foundations

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Community Grants in Charlotte

Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
Amount: $804,100
To meet the growing demand for job-related services by replacing old computers, increasing bandwidth and creating a new Job Center in the Main Library
North Carolina Dance Theatre
Amount: $1,500,000
To strengthen the north end of Charlotte's uptown cultural mall with a permanent home, including classrooms and rehearsal studios, for the North Carolina Dance Theatre
McColl Center for Visual Art
Amount: $1,130,000
To strengthen a program that uses the visual arts to train local leaders to solve problems creatively.
Citizen Schools, Inc.
Amount: $2,100,000
To increase involvement in the public schools by expanding a successful after-school program and using technology to strengthen its volunteer base.
Foundation for the Carolinas
Amount: $50,000
To inspire community transformation through presentation of Malcolm Gladwell at Foundation for the Carolina's 50th Anniversary event
Catawba Lands Conservancy
Amount: $1,000,000
To strengthen the sense of regional community by supporting the Carolina Thread Trail, a green "interstate" of major trails and linear parks that will link more than 2 million people to places in 15 counties

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