Fuel Charlotte’s Creative Movement with a Year-End Gift!
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Fuel Charlotte’s Creative Movement with a Year-End Gift!Seven years ago, our nonprofit, Charlotte Is Creative (CIC), launched a free monthly series called CreativeMornings/Charlotte and something unique was unleashed. An energy, a vibrancy that Charlotte had been craving. It was a recognition of the power of creativity to change lives – and a heralding of the truth that our city has limitless creative potential. Today, having since connected, funded, promoted and advocated for hundreds upon hundreds of area creatives, we have a question for you: Are you ready to start a fire? Do you want to help the blaze of creativity light up the Queen City? To see what’s truly possible when a community’s full creative capacity is set free? Whether you are one of the tens of thousands of people who have enjoyed issues of The Biscuit, attended our past events, participated in an online offering or have simply shown interest in our programming—we want to offer you a chance to help strengthen Charlotte’s creative future. What We’ve Been Up ToCIC is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization and thus depends on donations to support its community programs and initiatives. This is the first time we have launched an individual giving campaign, because we need your support to continue vital community programming such as: - Charlotte’s celebrated Black Lives Matter mural – a public art installation that resonated globally during a time of critical community reckoning and healing.
- HUG Micro-Grant program – providing creatives with strings-free project funding, free equipment and access to free workspace.
- Invest In Creatives Fund – distributing $1.2MM in CARES Act funds to creatives impacted by the COVID pandemic.
- Creative Entrepreneurs Initiative – providing creatives with the skills they need to hone entrepreneurial proficiency and build sustainable creative businesses.
- Corridors of Opportunity work – harnessing creativity to help our city realize beautiful, safe and prosperous communities where families can grow strong and build legacies for the future.
Your tax-deductible gift will support our organization as we continue to lead the way in infusing critical new thinking into our community’s mindset – namely, that artistic and creative entrepreneurialism is a viable pathway to economic mobility and generational wealth; and that Charlotte’s growing reputation as a pro-creativity city is a key ingredient toward racial equality and economic success. CIC believes in individuality and so we have created multiple ways to give. Whether you strike a match with a one-time donation or fuel a bonfire with a monthly gift, you’ll be a part of the creative movement taking place in the Queen City. Consider donating at one of the following levels: - Embers: $10-$25
- Flames: $26-$50
- Bonfires: $51-$150
- Trailblazers: $151+
- Tinder: $1-50
- Kindling: $51-$250
- Fuel: $251+
Visit our DONATION PAGE and get ready for things to heat up in 2022! Let’s create together! Your Friends at Charlotte Is Creative 
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