News Briefs for 08.07.20
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Non-Profits Seek Support
Local LGBTQ Organizations Struggle to Make Budgets during COVID-19
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer non-profits throughout Charlotte are constantly fundraising, but with COVID-19 these vital organizations are struggling to meet their budgets with canceled events, a plethora of grant opportunities and reduced individual support.
Fund awards non-profits with COVID-19 grants
Carolinas News Notes
More than $3 million has been awarded to 51 local non-profits in the second round of grants from the COVID-19 Response Fund.
Remembering Dan Kirsch
Former QNotes Editor and Community Leader Dies at Age 66
At a recent meeting of the LGBTQ Elders Steering Committee, co-chair Cindy Hostetler said, “Every LGBTQ organization today (in Charlotte, N.C.) ties back to Dan Kirsch.” Kirsch died suddenly on Friday, Feb. 21. He was 66.
From Brooklyn to Ballantyne: The story behind Charlotte’s affordable housing crisis
Charlotte’s history of affordable housing includes broken promises and empty gestures. Now that the city’s chronic shortage has become a crisis, leaders are responding with unprecedented resources. Will this time be different?
Anyone who’s lived in Charlotte for a minute knows that the Ballantyne area, wealthier than Mecklenburg County as a whole, isn’t the place to find an affordable apartment if you’re a hotel housekeeper, a fry cook, a landscaper — anyone making less than $15 or so an hour.
Charlotte: PFLAG Cookout, Faith Initiative, ‘Table’ Discussion
Carolinas News Notes
NC Faith Forward will be held on Oct. 7, On the Table CLT will take place across Mecklenburg County on Oct. 25 and Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Concord/Kannapolis will welcome MTV’s “Promposal” couple Brandon Caddell and Noah Ambrose who reside in Moore County at the Oct. 10 meeting.
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