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Center for Community Transitions - Charlotte NC
CCT & LifeWorks! Graduate featured in Duke Energy Newsletter
For MLK Day 2022, LifeWorks! graduate Saichelle McNeill took center stage in Duke Energy’s newsletter, illumination. CCT received a $25,000 Social Justice and Racial Equity grant from the energy giant in 2020. Read the Full Article
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
It takes a team of caring, compassionate people to help achieve CCT’s mission of building people, not prisons. Part of the building includes training programs where participants learn and practice skills they’ll need to successfully re-enter the workforce and become productive members of society. SouthPark Magazine editor, Cathy Martin takes a deeper dive into how…
Queen City Nerve Names CCT “Best Nonprofit in Charlotte”
We are so proud to receive the title ‘Best Nonprofit in Charlotte’ from Queen City Nerve’s Best in the Nest 2021. See what they had to say about our work, as well as a complete list of winners. Congratulations to all! Read the Full Article
Center for Women Resident Shares Story of Overcoming Obstacles
Carita Jacobs is completing the last few months of her prison sentence at CCT’s residential work release dorm. Her path hasn’t been an easy one. However, as you’ll see in her interview with WSOC’s Glenn Counts, her personal commitment to overcome the odds and be back with her family has kept her going. Read the…
Fair Hiring Process
The hiring process has many steps, from completing an application to phone interviews and criminal background checks, with human resources (HR) doing much of the vetting. Our executive director, who spent over 20 years working in HR, shares why working with nonprofit agencies like CCT can help ensure people with criminal records are not overlooked….
The Charlotte Observer Articles Shine Spotlight on CCT, Incarceration & Reentry
Reporter Devna Bose writes about marginalized people, underrepresented communities, racism and social justice for The Charlotte Observer. She and photographer Khadejeh Nikouyeh spent time recently at the Center for Community Transitions and Center for Women, interviewing and meeting with residents, Executive Director Patrice Funderburg and Program Director Delilah Montalvo. Their efforts culminated in two in-depth,…
CCT Launches Second Chance Fund Campaign
In 2009, Ebony began a 10-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. Today, she’s a college graduate and owns a thriving transportation business. At the heart of Ebony’s successful journey from incarceration to reentry is the Center for Community Transitions, where she spent two years living at the Center for Women and taking employment readiness classes…
Pretty (and confident) in Pink: First shoe purchase gives Center for Women resident a self-image boost
For most of us, shopping for shoes is a mundane activity. We walk into a store, browse the aisles for a few pairs we like, try them on and buy them. But for 34-year-old Erica, a recent visit to Rack Room Shoes was a milestone experience: It was her first time choosing a pair of…
CCT’s Patrice Funderburg Celebrated as “Unsung Hero” in 40 Over 40 Award
“Building People, Not Prisons” isn’t just the Center for Community Transitions tagline. It’s how Executive Director Patrice Funderburg models her path to leading transformative change within the Charlotte community — lowering recidivism, improving access and opportunities to sustainable employment, and disrupting the generational cycle of poverty to prison. The Charlotte Ledger recognized Patrice among “local…
CCT Talks Second Chance Employment, Changing Criminal Justice Narratives with Queen City Nerve
Most of the criminal justice conversations in our community are about policing and law enforcement, not on reentry, transition and reducing recidivism. But all of these topics are connected because issues with police result in pathways to incarceration. In March, Executive Director Patrice Funderburg sat down with Queen City Nerve Editor Ryan Pitkin to talk…