Charlotte's Coalition for Community Impact
City of Hope unites partner organizations across Charlotte's Corridors of Opportunity — bringing hope, healing, and transformation through shared strategy, shared metrics, and shared mission.
Our Results
2025 annual coalition numbers
We're actively tracking what healing looks like across our corridors. This data is just beginning to take shape — check back as we build a fuller picture of the whole-person impact our coalition is having across Charlotte.
Charlotte is coming together — and you won't want to miss it. City of Hope: United is a city-wide gathering built around the stories, music, and shared hope that bind us.
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What's happening right now across the coalition — partners working together to expand impact
A mother navigating hardship secured a new job and purchased a vehicle — removing the barriers that once stood between her family and a sustainable future.
When Promise entered the program her GPA was 1.57. Through consistent mentorship and belief in her potential, she ended the year at 3.6 — the largest improvement in the program.
Daniela Garcia earned a $20,000 scholarship, graduated with a degree in Management Information Systems, and returned to serve on the Board of the organization that invested in her.
Our Reach
Every pin represents a story. Click to discover the people, partners, and impact behind it.
Join the coalition. Every role matters in building stronger communities.
Walk alongside youth or individuals, provide guidance, and invest in meaningful, life-changing relationships.
Support meals, food distribution, community events, and partner-led programs across our city.
Contribute your talents in communications, administration, or logistics to strengthen the coalition's work.
Not everyone can serve on the ground — but everyone can fuel it. Your gift sustains coalition programming and helps eight partner organizations keep showing up for Charlotte.
Our Approach
Relationship → Education → Food → Health
We believe transformation starts with trust.
Before programs and before services, we prioritize people. Through consistent presence, meaningful connection, and long-term commitment, we build relationships that open the door for real impact.
We equip students and families with the tools they need to succeed.
From tutoring and academic support to mentorship and life skills, we help create pathways for long-term growth.
We meet immediate needs while restoring dignity.
Through meals, food distribution, and consistent support, we help reduce barriers so families can focus on stability and growth.
We care for the whole person — physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Through wellness initiatives, supportive relationships, and access to care, we help individuals and families move toward wholeness.
Who We Are · Our Model
We are building a Charlotte where every individual can experience hope, healing, and holistic renewal — together. Charlotte's opportunity gap is real. City of Hope unites partners around shared outcomes — turning coordinated effort into lasting community impact.
Supporting youth and families through relationships, mentorship, and pathways to stability.
Showing up consistently in neighborhoods through schools, community spaces, and trusted presence.
Working together as aligned partners to share resources, data, and responsibility for results.
Our Story
City of Hope was born from a shared realization that no single organization can solve intergenerational poverty alone.
In 2015, Pastor David Chadwick joined the Charlotte Mecklenburg Opportunity Task Force, where leaders examined the region's economic mobility crisis. A Harvard University and UC Berkeley study ranked Charlotte 50th out of 50 major U.S. cities for economic mobility, meaning children born into poverty faced the greatest challenges rising out of it.
This moment sparked a vision. Instead of working in isolation, service providers would unite around shared priorities to address the most pressing needs of families. That vision led to the creation of a collaborative coalition focused on Feeding, Reading, Healing, and Discipleship.
In 2019, this vision began to take shape through Seeding Hope, bringing organizations together to serve communities more intentionally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the coalition mobilized to fight hunger and support vulnerable families. By 2021, City of Hope officially launched, strengthening collaboration and expanding collective impact.
Today, City of Hope continues to unite churches, nonprofits, and community leaders to address intergenerational poverty and create pathways toward economic mobility. Together, we believe coordinated efforts lead to stronger families, healthier communities, and lasting transformation.
We believe that no single organization or sector can solve the complex issues of generational poverty alone. Unity matters because it allows us to leverage the distinct strengths of churches, nonprofits, and civic leaders into one powerful collective force. By moving past fragmentation, we create shared goals, shared metrics, and shared outcomes that lead to exponential community benefit.
Pastor David Chadwick · City of Hope CLT
"No single organization or sector can solve the complex issues of generational poverty alone. Unity allows us to leverage the distinct strengths of churches, nonprofits, and civic leaders into one powerful collective force."
Partners & Leadership
City of Hope is led by a collaborative network of board members, coalition leadership, and community impact partners working together to serve families across Charlotte.
Our Impact Partners
Board of Directors
Executive Leadership
