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WFAE has joined other media outlets to help find solutions to the crisis facing the area's charities, and the people they serve. Visit www.charlottemissionpossible.org to access stories on the crisis from our partners. You can also go to this site to find a charity to support.
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WFAE hosts forum for "Charlotte Mission Possible"
The economic recession and other challenges have made the past year an especially difficult time for charitable organizations seeking to meet basic human needs in the Charlotte area. To help address this critical issue, WFAE hosted a Public Conversation community forum on Monday, Oct. 5, as part of the local media collaboration, "Charlotte Mission Possible." This initiative is designed to help Charlotte residents understand charitable needs in the community, and find innovative ways to meet those needs. The collaboration has generated hundreds of suggestions from local citizens through an online survey from Edison Nation.
What do you think are some of the best ideas to come out of this project? Continue the discussion here.
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Non-profit consolidation talk popular, but realistic?
These days, there's a lot of talk about whether non-profits should consolidate all or at least a portion of their operations. As part of a media collaboration called Charlotte Mission Possible, we asked for public input on how to improve charitable non-profits. Consolidation emerged as a strong theme.
Both WFAE and the Charlotte Observer have taken a closer look at this issue with stories in the past week. In this segment, Morning Edition host Scott Graf talks to WFAE's Julie Rose and Eric Frazier of the Charlotte Observer about what they learned.
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Making nonprofits merge: A free market approach
Funding for nonprofits is so tight right now that it's fueling a tense conversation about mergers and collaboration in Charlotte.
Hundreds of people submitted their suggestions to improve Charlotte's nonprofit sector through a media collaboration called Charlotte Mission Possible. WFAE's Julie Rose takes a look at one recurring theme that suggests Charlotte's nonprofit sector should take a lesson from the free market system.
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Unofficial shelters popular with Charlotte's homeless
WFAE is part of a media collaboration called Charlotte: Mission Possible that is looking for creative solutions to the unmet needs in our community. Homelessness often falls near the top of that list. The latest count estimates at least 6,000 people are homeless in Mecklenburg County. Advocates and local officials say Charlotte needs more homeless shelters and more affordable housing to meet the needs. But rather than wait for that to happen, some members of the community have taken things into their own hands. WFAE's Julie Rose reports.
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Mission Possible and Crowdsourcing
We'll talk about the local effort of several media organizations in Charlotte (including WFAE) to address our community's needs and encourage the city's citizens to think of ways to meet those needs. This effort is called Mission Possible, and right now the coalition is asking for members of the community to take an online survey that asks for their ideas on how to better meet the needs of people in Charlotte. This project, and those like it around the country are examples of crowdsourcing. We'll talk about exactly what that is, and about some of the ideas that are coming in via the survey that may help meet Charlotte's community needs.
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Matt Spangard - Vice President of Interactive Technologies, Edison Nation
Andrew Haeg - Editor of Public Insight Journalism at Minnesota Public Radio
Steve Gunn - Editor for Innovations, Charlotte Observer
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Jane McIntyre: United Way campaign shouldn't be an irritant to donors
The new president of the United Way of Central Carolinas doesn't officially start until August 26, but she's already spending half her time there while keeping things afloat at the YWCA. That balancing act foreshadows the work she has ahead in convincing the community that the United Way still has a role to play in Charloote and is worthy of donations.
WFAE's Julie Rose sat down with Jane McIntyre at her YWCA office.
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Social Media and Non-Profits
Social Media continues to be a frontier in both interpersonal communications and in-business networking. One group of organizations that seek to make use of social media is non-profit groups. Social media advocates say that non-profits can benefit greatly from social media and our panel of experts is on the forefront of creating strategies for non-profits to use. Npower Charlotte region recently held a forum on how non-profits can use social media and they share their results with us.
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Chris Meade - Exec. Director, NPower Charlotte Region
Brandon Uttley - Social Media Strategist, Wray Ward Communications
Winn Maddrey - Executive Vice President, Topics Education
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Sorting through non-profits for efficiencies
Foundation for the Carolinas is taking an inventory of all of Charlotte's non-profit - from arts groups to social service agencies - to see how they can most effectively meet the area's needs. WFAE's Lisa Miller has more.
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Charlotte homeless shelters to merge
The Uptown Men's Shelter and Emergency Winter Shelter have announced plans to merge after more than 20 years operating separately. County officials, directors of the two shelters and even the homeless men they serve all say the merger makes perfect sense. WFAE's Julie Rose has more:
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'Charlotte: Mission Possible' turns to your ideas
Times are tough for social service agencies and charities. Budgets have been slashed while demands for their services are increasing.
Several media organizations, including WFAE, have teamed up to help find a solution. We call this project Charlotte: Mission Possible.
A company in Charlotte is also playing an instrumental role in the project. It's tasked with asking the public for ideas to help charities improve their services.
WFAE's Simone Orendain has this report on Edison Nation and its role in Charlotte: Mission Possible.
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Looking inside Charlotte: Mission Possible
Charities in Charlotte have been hit hard by the poor economy. Large increases in the need for their services come at a time when securing funding is very difficult. Eight media outlets in Charlotte have teamed up to help publicize the situation. WFAE's Scott Graf spoke with the project organzier Steve Gunn, the Editor for Innovations at the Charlotte Observer, about the goal of the project.
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Concerned citizens want plan to tackle need in Charlotte
Dozens of Charlotte's human service agencies will begin the new fiscal year today with even tighter budgets to service more people in these tough economic times. Last night, more than 200 people gathered to figure out how Charlotte residents, community leaders, and officials should go about meeting basic needs. And the answer that came back is that Charlotte needs a plan to raise money and efficiently parcel out assistance. WFAE's Lisa Miller has more.
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United Way cuts wide and deep
A record number of people in Mecklenburg County are requesting emergency food, shelter and rental assistance. And the nonprofits that offer those services are struggling to keep up in the face of severe funding shortages. Today, the United Way of Central Carolinas announced an overall cut of 35 percent in funding to agencies it supports. WFAE's Julie Rose has more.
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Feeding the Hungry
It's a different kind of food show this month. Our "Chef-in-Radio," Peter Reinhart is back and brings with him some of the top chefs in the city. But we won't be talking about gourmet food, instead, Chef Jim Noble and Chef Ron Ahlert will talk about their charitable efforts to not only feed the hungry, but to train people in need to be employed in the restaurant industry. Join us for a conversation about food charities, the nutrition of the poor and much more.
Guests
Chef Peter Reinhart - Chef-on-Assignment, Johnson and Wales University
Chef Jim Noble - Owner, Noble's Restaurant; Honorary Chair of King's Kitchen
Chef Ron Ahlert - Director and Instructor, Community Culinary School of Charlotte
Kelly Vass - Registered Dietician, Nutrition Services Coordinator, Friendship Trays
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