Partnerships

Camino is a bilingual and multicultural health center that provides affordable integrated care to underinsured and uninsured populations. Our mission is to equip people to live healthy lives by focusing on the whole person. Through our collective services, we empower community members to enhance their physical, mental/emotional, and social wellbeing. We accomplish this through several services, including a primary care clinic, behavioral health services, food security services, educational services, and employment/economic opportunity services. We partner with UNC Charlotte by providing opportunities for service learning, training, and research for both students and faculty. Our partnership ensures we are working to meet the needs of underserved families in the Greater Charlotte area.

CharlotteEAST is a volunteer community advocacy board for the East community. The board is composed of representatives from East community neighborhoods, businesses, nonprofits and civic organizations working together to develop and strengthen economic and social capital in the East Charlotte community.

The Transportation Committee actively supports shared-use paths, greenways, trails, protected bike, sidewalks, and public transit with the goal of increasing connectivity for the East and West communities through the CityLYNX Gold Line and Carolina Thread Trail.

With community support, the committee is seeking City and County collaboration to develop a multimodal transportation network that includes all forms of mobility and creates connected active transportation that is a valuable and equitable asset for its residents.

Through research, coalition building, and technical assistance, the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED) works to close opportunity gaps for all children in P-20 education, especially children of color, with the vision that one day race will no longer be the primary predictor of educational outcomes in North Carolina and beyond. In the past year, CREED has worked with UNC Charlotte faculty and graduate students on the evaluation of its Learning Difference Playbook, a resource for educators, as well as hosted undergraduate students in service projects for the Concentration in Urban Youth and Communities capstone.

The Lee Institute’s mission is to support the important community-changing work of other nonprofit, public, and community organizations, and leading and guiding collaborative efforts. We apply our expertise, training, experience, and community knowledge primarily across the Charlotte region and two Carolinas to build great communities.

Our directors have decades of experience doing this work and an unmatched depth of knowledge about our communities, the organizations, and the leadership that contributes to our region’s success.

Niner University Elementary at Amay James is a public school created and led by education experts at UNC Charlotte. We help young students discover the joy of learning, and foster the growth of empathy and responsibility through knowledge. Our authentic and meaningful curriculum is driven by research validated practices and we strive to support each learner’s unique identity in a place where academic achievement, social development, and happiness can thrive. Our program is intended to support students from high needs, low-performing schools, or individual students who are struggling with school.

Read Charlotte is a capacity-building intermediary with a focus on improving the system that produces early literacy outcomes from birth-to-third grade. We have partnered with UNC Charlotte in several ways over the years – program evaluation, collaboration on early literacy interventions, and engagement of students in local tutoring and family literacy initiatives.