Sept. 3, 2024 Presenters Tuesday represented mostly community and nonprofit groups active in encouraging voter turnout. Many stand in the nonpartisan space, and must be careful in their comments. But they agreed to a stipulation that the agenda of the day was to examine low voter turnout in ... Continue Reading →
How to make an impact with voter canvassing
Aug, 27, 2024 Don't expect much to result from leaving a flyer at the door about the importance of voting. According to those speaking Tuesday, the way you rouse neighbors to vote is to send other neighbors to talk one-on-one. Make at least three in-person contacts with each voter, in addition ... Continue Reading →
Group promotes giving back as a near-universal Black practice
Aug. 20, 2024 Prospective members of The New Generation of African American Philanthropists are asked for a monetary pledge of just a dollar a day. That's much less, members of Tuesday's panel asserted, than most African-Americans are already committing every day to their kin, their neighbors and ... Continue Reading →
Issuing microloans, plus training to turn ‘hustlers into CEOs’
Aug. 13, 2024 Forum participants heard today from leaders of a boutique microloan lender that makes it its business to turn small business owners scrambling to get their firms off the ground into real CEOs, leaders who not only were inspired to build a product or service clients, but are ready to ... Continue Reading →
Ventures under way to address westside food deserts
Aug. 6, 2024 A real estate investor seven years into an effort to build a grocery to serve Statesville Avenue neighborhoods. A Beatties Ford Road advocate pulling together a community owned food co-op. A leader of a farm-to-family food provider serving multiple counties. A 20-year veteran ... Continue Reading →
Stories of collaboration in the home repair sector
July 30, 2024 Tuesday’s Forum involved more than an hour of information-sharing about how various groups are helping Charlotte-area homeowners afford to stay in their homes or get help arranging for and affording critical home repairs. The last question of the day, however, cast the entire ... Continue Reading →
A pitch to participate in planning Charlotte’s future
July 23, 2024 City Planning Assistant Director Alysia Osborne is project manager for the CLT Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan. While there are many groups of staff working on the plan, Osborne leads a team focused on what the city will look like in 30, 40 years, and what it will take to keep ... Continue Reading →
Bringing national resources to bear on unmet local needs
July 16, 2024 GreenLight Fund is a Boston-based organization with funding and a small staff presence in Charlotte and 12 other U.S. cities. Charlotte Executive Director Sam Smith Jr. shared the group's mission by bringing to the Forum leaders of four groups that have been or are now being ... Continue Reading →
Malcolm Graham offers update on economic issues facing city
July 9, 2024 There was talk about minority contracting, facilitating jobs, the Bank of America stadium renovations. All issues that are well within the wheelhouse of the chair of Charlotte City Council's Economic Development Committee. But Malcolm Graham is a district representative on Council, ... Continue Reading →
Fourth of July, 2024
June 28, 2024 Credits: Gerald Johnson, West Virginia Association for Justice, American History Central, slate.com, tunecore. ... Continue Reading →
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