Foundation For The Carolinas will celebrate our region's philanthropic spirit at our 2020 Annual Meeting on Wednesday, March 25, at the Charlotte Convention Center from noon to 1:30 p.m. One of our region’s premier nonprofit events, the Annual Meeting convenes 1,700 leaders from the philanthropic, corporate, nonprofit and civic sectors. We hope you'll join us!

To address our community's affordable housing shortage, Foundation For The Carolinas led a $50 million private-sector fundraising campaign for the Charlotte Housing Opportunity Investment Fund. FFTC kickstarted the fund with a $5 million program-related investment, the largest of its kind in our history.

Years leaving a extraordinary planned gift, Lucille Giles' legacy continues to touch lives through the Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation, FFTC's primary grantmaking arm. Organizations that have benefited include the Latin American Coalition, Carolina Thread Trail and Charlotte Bilingual Preschool, among many others. Learn about recent grants made possible through her generosity.

The Leading on Opportunity council is reshaping the way the community looks at economic mobility, from improving access to preschool to increasing funds for affordable housing. After a 2014 study ranked Charlotte last in economic mobility among America’s 50 largest cities, the community rallied.

After the sale of the Carolina Panthers, minority owner Derick Springsteen Close contributed $30 million to the Springsteen Foundation, a donor advised fund held at FFTC. The money represented a sizeable percentage of the total proceeds that he realized from the sale of the team to David Tepper.