Community Stakeholders and Friends,
You are invited to the Charlotte Area Fund Incorporated 35th Annual Business Luncheon on Thursday, Dec 6, 12- 2:00PM at the Levine Museum of the New South. Keynote comments provided by Dr. Stephanie Kripa Cooper Lewter, Executive Director, Leading on Opportunity.
The CAF Annual Business Luncheon is the agency’s opportunity to recognize successes and challenges reducing poverty and to identify private/public policy solutions on behalf of the voiceless and underserved. Since 1963, the Charlotte Area Fund has been the federally designated community action agency for Mecklenburg County dedicated to assisting individuals and families to overcome poverty through securing decent housing, accessing social services, pursuing quality education, and ultimately obtaining solid employment. Our goal is to strengthen communication, collaboration, and coordination among our partners to reduce the impact of systemic barriers to economic mobility in Mecklenburg County.
Reimagining our Anti-poverty Mission is our collective call to renewed community action. The emergence of community action was initiated by President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s executive order enacting the “Economic Opportunity Act of 1964” signaling a legislative solution to combat a national crisis of American poverty. The current hyper-partisan indifference to the needs of America’s poor must not obscure our imperfect shared history aspiring to eradicate poverty.
“We can draw lessons from the past but we can’t live in it." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The event is sponsored by Wells Fargo and Community Service Block Grant. Seating is limited RSVP deadline extended to November 28.
Nicholas V. Wharton
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Special Announcement Coming Soon:
Dorothy Counts-Scoggins Community Accelerator Grant RFP
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Complimentary two hour parking available at Seventh St. Station parking deck.
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RSVP Deadline Extended to Wednesday, November 28, 2018.
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