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Knight Foundation in Charlotte
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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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In Charlotte your first point of contact is Susan Patterson, Program Director for Charlotte.
Charlotte
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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Community Grants in Charlotte
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Charlotte Center for Urban Ministry
Amount: $1,000,000
To support Charlotte's 10-year plan to end homelessness through the establishment of Moore Place - the city's first permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless. -
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 -
NPower Charlotte Region, Inc.
Amount: $2,750,000
To demonstrate that the use of technology (tools and support) makes nonprofits more effective and efficient -
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.
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