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Center for Community Transitions - Charlotte NC
COVID-19 update from Executive Director Patrice Funderburg
In light of the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to protect the health of our staff, clients, volunteers and supporters, we’re suspending all Center for Community Transitions programming and events until further notice. This includes: Families Doing Time (Third Tuesday Family Night, literacy tutoring and cultural excursions). Center for Women onsite dinners from the…
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CCT + Wells Fargo Center for Community Engagement + Queens University = Dynamic and sustainable partnership
Thanks to our partnership with Wells Fargo Center for Community Engagement, students from Queens University got to see firsthand how incarceration affects mental health and learn how we work with the Charlotte prison system to offer services to formerly incarcerated individuals. The center aligns with the university’s strategic plan to ensure every student “engages in…
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Local journalist and “Money Rock” author Pam Kelley to speak at Build People, Not Prisons event March 26
An author who has written about inequality and the struggles that formerly incarcerated people face will take center stage at our Build People, Not Prisons fundraising event on Thursday, March 26. Freelance journalist Pam Kelley first connected with the Center for Community Transitions in 2017 while writing her book, “Money Rock: A Family’s Story of…
Read MoreListen now: Myra Clark visits the Francene Marie Show
Did you realize there are an estimated 2 million people in North Carolina with a criminal record? Myra Clark exits the Center For Community Transitions after 32 years! Clark served as the Executive Director for 22 years and 10 years with their Center For Women for 10 years, the amazing Patrice Funderburg will take the…
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Thanks for making our Give a Chance for Change year-end fundraising campaign an incredible success!
Thanks to each of you who donated to our Chance for Change Giving Tuesday and year-end fundraising campaign! Over 150 generous donors contributed $55,000 to the Center for Community Transitions. These dollars will go directly towards strengthening our programs and services that help formerly incarcerated men and women transform their lives, as well as provide…
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Join our 2020 Build People Not Prisons event planning committee
Our 3rd Annual Build People Not Prisons Spring fundraising event is Thursday, March 26th at Warehouse 242 in West Charlotte. We need volunteer committee members, like YOU, to help plan this event. The committee will meet bi-weekly up until the event on March 26. The first meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 29 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at…
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Myra Clark retires from CCT; Patrice Funderburg named new executive director
Myra Clark has retired as executive director of the Center for Community Transitions (CCT) after leading the organization for 22 years. Patrice Funderburg, former CCT board co-chair and local criminal justice advocate, was named new executive director effective Jan 1, 2020. Clark, who first joined CCT in 1988 as program director for the Center for…
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