The Charlotte Center gathers extraordinary people to explore the questions that matter most.

Your support helps cultivates civic imagination and strengthens the human connections that help our community flourish.

Unrestricted gifts sustain The Charlotte Center as a whole—giving us the flexibility to bring exceptional people and ideas to Charlotte, create meaningful experiences for our community, and pursue new opportunities as they emerge.

The Charlotte Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

please make an unrestricted gift to the charlotte center TODAY.

Gifts of Stock & Securities

Another tax-efficient way to support our mission.

Gifts of appreciated securities can provide significant tax advantages while supporting the work of The Charlotte Center. By transferring securities directly to the Center, donors may be able to avoid capital gains taxes and receive a charitable deduction, subject to applicable tax law.

Before making your transfer:
Electronic stock transfers may arrive without donor identification. Please contact us at thecharlottecenter@gmail.com before initiating your transfer so that we can properly identify, acknowledge, and receipt your gift. 

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LEADERSHIP GIVING Societies

Deepen your investment in the work.

Unrestricted support is one of the most valuable ways to invest in The Charlotte Center. It allows us to respond to opportunities, sustain the work that happens behind the scenes, and direct resources where they can make the greatest difference.

however, Some supporters are especially drawn to a particular dimension of The Charlotte Center's work.

Our Leadership Giving Societies offer opportunities to direct your support toward the programs that speak most strongly to you—

while becoming more deeply engaged in the life of the Center.

The OWL circle - $1000

Keep ideas circulating throughout the year.

Help sustain The Owl, our monthly digital magazine of ideas, culture, and civic imagination—extending the work of the Center beyond our live events and making it freely available to a growing community of readers.

The FORUM SOCIETY -$2500

Bring people together around extraordinary voices and ideas.

Help sustain our signature Forum series, bringing exceptional writers, thinkers, artists, and public voices to Charlotte for evenings of ideas, conversation, and human connection.

The Charlotte IDEAS festival guild- $5000

Expand Charlotte's civic imagination.

Provide foundational support for the Charlotte Ideas Festival, bringing nationally recognized voices into conversation with Charlotte thinkers, artists, and civic leaders across multiple days of talks, performances, conversations, and shared experiences.

Leadership Giving Society benefits are cumulative, with increasing opportunities for access, engagement, and recognition at each level.

Philanthropy is personal. If you'd like to learn more about supporting The Charlotte Center, Leadership Giving Societies, gifts of stock, or other ways to give, we'd be delighted to have a conversation. Contact Mark Peres at markperes101@gmail.com.

THANK YOU

Every gift helps create a place where curiosity is welcomed, ideas are taken seriously, and people come together to deepen their understanding of themselves, one another, and the world we share.

Thank you for believing in this work—and for helping make it possible.