PlaceCLT Foundation
Join Our Mission
PlaceCLT is building a movement around the places, stories, and character that make Charlotte meaningful. Whether you give, join, volunteer, attend, shop, or partner with us, your support helps ensure Charlotte grows with identity, memory, and belonging.
Become a Member
Membership is the easiest way to become part of the PlaceCLT community. Members help sustain our work while receiving access to events, programs, updates, and opportunities to connect with others who care about Charlotte’s history, culture, and future.
Make a Gift
Your gift directly supports cultural heritage, historic preservation, storytelling, placemaking, and public realm projects across Charlotte. Every contribution helps us invest in the places and stories that define our city — and protect what growth alone cannot preserve.
Attend an Event
PlaceCLT events bring people together around Charlotte’s places, stories, and shared identity. From launch celebrations and neighborhood tours to lectures, public programs, and signature gatherings, our events create meaningful ways to experience and support the power of place.
Volunteer with Us
Volunteers help bring PlaceCLT’s mission to life. Opportunities may include supporting events, assisting with storytelling projects, helping document places and businesses, welcoming guests, or lending professional skills in preservation, design, communications, fundraising, and community engagement.
Partner with Us
We collaborate with organizations, institutions, businesses, artists, neighborhood leaders, and civic partners who share our commitment to Charlotte’s identity and future. Partnership opportunities may include programs, events, storytelling projects, public space improvements, research, and community-based initiatives.
Share Your Story
PlaceCLT is rooted in the stories of Charlotte’s people and places. Share a memory, favorite place, legacy business, neighborhood story, or cultural landmark that deserves to be remembered, celebrated, or lifted up as part of Charlotte’s evolving identity.
Sponsor Our Work
Sponsorship helps fund the programs, events, and projects that make PlaceCLT possible. Sponsors can support cultural heritage initiatives, legacy business work, placemaking projects, signature events, or broader organizational growth while receiving recognition as leaders investing in Charlotte’s future.
Shop PlaceCLT
Every purchase helps share the PlaceCLT mission. Our shop features merchandise, prints, and place-inspired goods that celebrate Charlotte’s identity, along with curated book recommendations for people who care about cities, culture, preservation, and placemaking.
