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Harvesting Dollars To Meet A Community Need This holiday season, The Harvest Center of Charlotte, Inc. along with Community Outreach Christian Ministries will host The 1st Annual Thanksgiving Telethon, which will be held at The Harvest Center, located at 1800 Brewton Drive, off Statesville Rd. The event is designed to help raise much needed funds for The Harvest Center, which has provided hot meals, shelter and social service coordination (medical testing, recovery meetings, transportation, job skills,a and educational opportunities) for Charlotte’s homeless community for nearly 20 years.
“With the economic downturn, demand for services has drastically increased as donations received have greatly declined. “With so many people being out of work, we are seeing the needs are so much greater than in years past,” said Stephen Smith, Executive Director for The Harvest Center. “At the same time donations from individuals, churches and corporate donors have dwindled. It’s just kind of been the perfect storm in the worst way in that sense. We still have been able to manage but we are really trying to raise the contribution level and tap into some different resources.”
Get details on the event and how you can help harvest funds for The Harvest Center.
Many Cultures One Community They’re Charlotte’s invisible minority. They work, send their children to school and keep to themselves. They’re immigrants, but they rarely make it on the news. They are Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s refugees and asylees, many of whom fled their countries for fear of persecution. They are internationals and among those who make up Charlotte’s diverse population.
For more than two years, Crossroads Charlotte has been involved in a collaborative community engagement effort with the Immigrant, Refugee, Asylee and International (IRAI) communities and a wide range of service provider agencies/groups that support them to increase access for all and build trust in the community. During this time, many recurring “access-related” themes emerged from the sessions.
