Charlotte is ready to show you the future and it begins with unpacking the details of the Unified Development Ordinance or UDO. A panel of three Charlotte leaders, moderated by Stephanie Stenglein, and members of the Women’s Impact Fund, gathered virtually to unpack details of the Unified Development Ordinance, UDO, with the goal of educating …
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By Angela Scholl As the Community Impact Committee made Anniversary Connections with past grantees this winter, we reconnected with Envision Charlotte. They were awarded an unrestricted WIF environment grant in 2020-2021. Amy Aussieker, Executive Director of Envision Charlotte, shared the exciting news that the Innovation Barn opened to the public in September 2021. It is …
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Originally from Roanoke, Virginia, Nicole Hall has been in the Charlotte area for nearly 11 years. She attended undergraduate studies at Mary Washington College, received her MBA while working in commercial real estate, and then studied architecture at Virginia Tech. Putting her studies to professional use, she initially worked as an architect for about 15 …
WINGS for Kids, a 2017 WIF Grantee, successfully shifted from a school-based model to a community-based model during the pandemic. The community-based model is through a relatively new partnership with the Steve Smith Family Foundation, which they say is a perfect fit because WINGS needed a programming space and liaison for the schools that could …
More than 150 members, guests, and grantees gathered at The Terrace at Cedar Hill for the first in-person Women’s Impact Fund (WIF) Annual Meeting since 2019 — the first for our Executive Director, Patricia Massey Hoke! The Annual Meeting is a combination of social event, business meeting, and celebration. This year was no different. As …
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As was shared at the Annual Meeting on May 9, the WIF board recently approved eleven member-supported recommendations from the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) working groups, which picked up where the DEI Task Force left off almost one year ago (two of the original nine recommendations were broken into two parts, hence eleven total). …
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