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Grab your friends, family or coworkers and come volunteer at Live United Day! Each Live United Day event brings together neighborhood residents and volunteers to build a better community through a day of service.
Sign up today for a fun day filled with memorable moments, and learn how you can create significant change in your neighborhood!
Upcoming Neighborhood Projects:
Grier Heights
Grier Heights Community Center
3100 Leroy Street
Charlotte, NC 28205
3100 Leroy Street
Charlotte, NC 28205
Saturday, December 14
Volunteer Arrival: 11:30 a.m.
Event Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Get ready for the season of giving and join us as we support "Health for the Holidays," a Grier Heights community event with on-site health resources and screenings, vaccines, food trucks, giveaways, and much more! Volunteers will help with event set-up and take-down, distributing resources, gifts, and goodie bags, and facilitating activities while actively contributing to improving health outcomes for neighborhood residents.
Additional Information
This is an off-site event that is suitable for all ages, and involves indoor volunteer projects. You must agree to the Live United Days volunteer waiver before submitting registration for this event.
Volunteer Arrival: 11:30 a.m.
Event Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Get ready for the season of giving and join us as we support "Health for the Holidays," a Grier Heights community event with on-site health resources and screenings, vaccines, food trucks, giveaways, and much more! Volunteers will help with event set-up and take-down, distributing resources, gifts, and goodie bags, and facilitating activities while actively contributing to improving health outcomes for neighborhood residents.
Additional Information
This is an off-site event that is suitable for all ages, and involves indoor volunteer projects. You must agree to the Live United Days volunteer waiver before submitting registration for this event.
Register for YOUR Live United Days!
Did You Know?
The Grier Heights neighborhood can trace its roots back to Sam Billings, a formerly enslaved man, when he bought 100 acres of land in the area in the 1890s. This made him the first recorded African-American to buy land in Charlotte, NC. The Billingsville School, built for African-American students in the late 1920s, still stands in the neighborhood today and has been repurposed as the Grier Heights Community Center. Read more here.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Presenting Sponsor:
Thank You to Our Media Sponsor!
Presenting Sponsor:
Thank You to Our Media Sponsor!
Previous Projects:
Graham/North Tryon
Thursday, September 19
Work on various projects focused on beautification and clean-up within neighborhoods, weatherization of resident homes, as well as packing of supply kits for neighborhood nonprofit agencies. Volunteers will also have the opportunity to engage with an array of neighborhood nonprofit agencies as they are onsite providing services to residents sharing more information about their work and impact with volunteers.
Renaissance West
Friday, October 4
Join us for "Fun Friday" at Renaissance West Community Initiative! Various projects will be completed around community clean-up, landscaping, and packing supply kits for neighborhood partner agencies. Agencies will also be onsite with booths for residents to learn more about the resources available to them and for volunteers to discover opportunities to engage deeper.
Camp Greene
Saturday, July 13
Volunteers will work with residents of Historic Camp Greene for a neighborhood litter pickup, landscaping around neighborhood signs and maintaining their community garden.
Volunteers will work with residents of Historic Camp Greene for a neighborhood litter pickup, landscaping around neighborhood signs and maintaining their community garden.
Albemarle/Central Ave.
Saturday, July 20
Attend a block party for residents in the Four Seasons neighborhood while partner agencies give out information and provide services. Volunteers will have various functions, including an onsite project for creating hygiene kits.
Attend a block party for residents in the Four Seasons neighborhood while partner agencies give out information and provide services. Volunteers will have various functions, including an onsite project for creating hygiene kits.
Lakeview
Saturday, April 27
Volunteers will work with residents to renew the grounds around the neighborhood's Economic Opportunity Hub, a centerpiece of the community's revitalization efforts.
I-85/Sugar Creek
Saturday, May 11
Pack supply kits for neighborhood nonprofit agencies. Meanwhile, a resource fair will provide information about available programs to assist individuals and families.
Pack supply kits for neighborhood nonprofit agencies. Meanwhile, a resource fair will provide information about available programs to assist individuals and families.
Interested in becoming a sponsor?
There are multiple sponsorship opportunities available for Live United Days.
Learn more about becoming a sponsor!
For more information about the event, contact Bob Young: byoung@uwcentralcarolinas.org or 704-371-6276.
What is United Neighborhoods?
United Neighborhoods, launched in 2017, works to change the odds for those living in Charlotte’s most disinvested neighborhoods. By working alongside lead partners in each community, United Way funds and guides the work toward achieving the collective goal of building thriving neighborhoods. Community needs are identified by residents and addressed by a coalition of community stakeholders that includes schools, nonprofits, government officials, churches, hospitals and businesses.
In 2024, United Neighborhoods has expanded to over nine communities: Albemarle Rd./Central Ave., Beatties Ford Rd./Rozzelles Ferry Rd., Graham St./N. Tryon St., Grier Heights, Lakeview, Freedom Drive/Wilkinson Blvd., North Mecklenburg (Huntington Green, East Catawba, West Davidson, Pottstown, Smithville), Renaissance West, Sugar Creek Rd./I-85, West Blvd.
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