Shop for GOOD July 17-21
What is Shop for GOOD?
SHARE Charlotte’s Give Shop® is an online marketplace that consolidates hundreds of Charlotte nonprofits’ Amazon wish lists, making it easy for our community to “shop for good” by purchasing the items nonprofits need most to run their businesses and programs. Items are shipped directly to nonprofits’ doors, and donors know exactly where their money is going.
Shop for Good (July 17-21) is our annual campaign to all rally the Charlotte community to:
“Take something off a nonprofit’s to-do list by shopping their wish list!”
Your Guide to Shopping:
Evolving to Independence - Shop for: Professional Portfolio, Pens, and Gift Cards. The impact: Help a participant look professional for job interviews.
Teaching Fellows Institute - Shop for: Book: Focus and Thrive: Executive Functioning Strategies for Teens: Tools to Get Organized, Plan Ahead, and Achieve Your Goals by Laurie Chaikind McNulty, Book: Working Memory Activities by Mr David John Newman, Game: Thinkfun Distraction Card Game by ThinkFun. The impact: These books and games will help our Fellows amplify their learning from our 2023 Summer Symposium in the classrooms to help improve student academic achievement.
Money Magnets Club- Shop for: snack packs, juice boxes, colored paper and glitter gel pens. The impact: These items help to fuel our ideation sessions as kids dream and tap into their creativity, community need, and entrepreneurial visions as they consider the businesses they would like to start!
The Harvest Center of Charlotte- Shop for: Bath towels and washcloths, Twin & Full Comforter Sets, Shower Curtain Sets. The impact: Having these items are essential when we are moving homeless individuals and families into our program. We want to ensure that they have the necessities.
Bright Blessings- Shop for: Card Games, Make Up Sets, Baby Items. The impact: Our Bless-A-BAby program is our fastest growing right now. We are serving over 100 babies a month and there are over 30 products in each bag. We also just finished packing all the summer birthdays for students in our school system, so our toy shelves are bare!
Crisis Assistance Ministry- Shop for: School Uniform items: specific solid color polo shirts + khaki, black, blue pants/skirts/shorts for CMS students at more than 40 public schools. The impact: Our Free Store and Partner Agency Network distributes thousands of school uniform items to families attending 40+ public schools that require uniforms. Any Mecklenburg County resident can access the Free Store directly, and partners include organizations like Communities in Schools and other youth-serving organizations in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
Cakeable- Shop for: We need to stock up on items as we grow our Bakery and open the Cakeable Cafe! The impact: The Cakeable Bakery and the Cakeable Cafe (opening in late 2023) will employ up to 40 individuals who live with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Youth Villages- Shop for: Lock boxes would serve as a preventive measure to ensure that potentially harmful items are securely stored away from the children. By providing lock boxes, you would help create a safer environment for the children and protect them from potential dangers. Backpacks and school supplies- 85% of Youth Villages families live below the poverty line, by supporting families during back to school, this is taking away any added stress of purchasing much needed items for school for their kids, so they are able to focus on their therapies.
Classroom Central- Shop for: Colored Markers, Glue Sticks, and Filler Paper. The impact: These items will impact students as they return to school in the fall! Each student will have the supply items they need for a successful and confident school year, despite any other challenges that might come their way.
Charlotte ToolBank & Catawba Riverkeeper- Shop for: Trash Grabbers, Trash Bags, and Gloves. The impact: Each October, Catawba Riverkeeper organizes thousands of volunteers who descend on the Catawba River Basin for a one day, massive clean up! Some of these volunteers are equipped with supplies from the Charlotte ToolBank but we want to make sure every volunteer has a pair gloves, trash grabber, and roll of trash bags! While the trash bags will be filled with tens of thousands of pounds of trash and the gloves will be a gift for the volunteers to keep, trash grabbers will live on at the ToolBank for other organizations to borrow throughout the year!
Hospitality House of Charlotte- Shop for: Meal containers, coffee, and coffee cups. The impact: A ready-made meal gives families in medical crisis one less thing to worry about and gives them the feeling of being at home. Meal prep containers help our volunteers portion their homemade meals and serve them in a way that is safe and convenient for our guests.
Supportive Housing Communities- Shop for: Queen size comforter sets, Queen size Air mattresses with pumps, and twin size sheet sets. The impact: We often get housing for our clients at the last minute. The time between getting all the furniture arranged and getting into the house may be about 3-5 days. These items help the families have a place to sleep while they wait.
Smart Start of Mecklenburg County- Shop for: Books. The impact: Children must learn to read so that they can read to learn. Yet, many families do not realize that language and literacy skills begin early, years before entering kindergarten.We are asking donated books to be purchased from Shelves, a Black woman-owned online and pop-up bookstore that partners with other small businesses that have a brick & mortar presence in the Charlotte Metro area.
Charlotte Trans Health- Shop for: collapsible wagon, canopy tent, pronoun stickers are our highest priority items for upcoming Pride festivals and events. The impact: Any supplies that are donated allow us to spend less money on such operational costs and put more money toward our Providing Access to Trans Health (PATH) Program that offers free medical and mental health services for un- and under-insured transgender individuals in the Charlotte Metro area. These supplies also support our participation in events where we can ensure visibility of our organization and affirming providers so people know how to find safe, competent, affirming healthcare.
Baby Bundles- Shop for: Onesies, Pajamas and Developmental Toys. The impact: Any goods that are donated will be put to immediate use. Our warehouse is constantly full of volunteer groups who are unpacking, sorting, folding and compiling bundles that will be distributed by one of our 18 community partners to deserving families living in financial need.
Pineville Neighbors Place- Shop for: Food Pantry, Hygiene and School Supplies. The impact: Donations enable our clients fighting poverty to work through their financial crises and ensure they have basic food and hygiene items so they are not choosing between paying their rent and eating. The Back to School supplies ensure that the children have what they need to start the school year successfully.
Charlotte Museum of History- Shop for: We need items related to basic museum operations so that the grants and sponsorships we receive can be used for educational exhibits and programs, not office supplies. We need new storage shelving for two different areas of the museum-- our current shelves are dangerous and tip over if they get too heavy. We also need things like printer ink and paper so we can reduce our printing expenses. The impact: It would mean the team can do their jobs without having to spend personal money to supplement museum operations AND that we don't have to pull from grants and other donations to cover operational expenses.
Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas- Shop for: iPad Charging Stations, dry erase markers. The impact: While in BizTown, students work together in their group to create an advertisement and an advertising plan to successfully sell their products to other BizTown community members. The colorful array of markers will allow students to tap into their creative mindset and make their ads eye-catching and bring more customers into their business. Students will then be able to reach their goal of paying back their business loan.
Camino- Shop for: Basic wooden sand tray with lid and stand combo, Sand tray miniature starter kit 255 piece, Kettlebell set. The impact: The wooden sand tray and the miniature starter kit would allow us to expand our sand tray therapy service. This service allows us to offer our behavioral health to the children within our community. The kettlebell set would be utilized by patients enrolled in our health and wellness program. This program offers individualized nutrition and physical intervention plans to assist patients in managing chronic diseases such as type II diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and obesity.
Dress for Success Charlotte- Shop for: Water bottles for clients. We strive to make our clients feel welcome and comfortable in our space while receiving services! Large paper bags to help clients carry their items received from the Suiting Program. The impact: The moment a client crosses the threshold, in person or virtually, she is welcomed with the assumption that she has the determination, drive, experience and/or potential for upskilling that will make her an asset to employers. Our personal, targeted approach immediately sets the stage for a professional experience and focuses on her specific needs and appropriate job seeking resources. Our services, along with all programs, are provided free of change and critical to the success of a woman transitioning and re-entering the workforce.
Hope Haven Inc.- Shop for: Bedding, Pull ups/ training underwear, baby wipes. The impact: They will enable us to meet the needs of the families with children and share the story of Hope Haven and who we serve.
Wing Haven- Shop for: Garden essentials such as new, reusable leaf bags, wheelbarrows, gloves and pruners. The impact: Our garden essentials have been well loved by our volunteers and staff for many years! Many of our current tools have seen better days and need to be replaced. These requested items would help our gardeners and volunteers carry out their work safely and successfully.
The Schiele Museum of Natural History- Shop for: Purchase tasty blueberry & cream treats for our two sweet potbellied pigs, Orion and Nebula. Provide a sleeping hammock for Albert, the Eastern collared lizard who always wins a staring contest. Or gift a treat ball to Franklin, our playful and curious Nubian goat. The impact: These animals do the hard work of interacting with groups and educating visitors of all ages.
Agape Acres- Shop for: Mud Control Grids. The impact: Many of our rescue horses cannot live on grass, as they are not able to eat grass as their main food source (due to health reasons), so these horses with special needs are kept on dry lots/dirt. However, with rainy and wet seasons, our dry lots become wet and muddy. Please donate to our mud control grids fund to help get us out of the mud!
Love in Action Project Inc- Shop for: coloring books, non-slip safety socks, super soft throw blankets. The impact: Loneliness is a global health crisis that affects all of us. These items will help us create love and hope to combat the effects of social isolation and loneliness for those most forgotten in our community.
Firm Foundations Youth and Family Outreach- Shop for: Bottled Water, Clorox Wipes, Frito-Lay Fun Times Mix Variety. The impact: This will allow us to serve our youth in a clean environment where they feel safe and welcomed, creating a space where they feel a sense of belonging.
FeedNC- Shop for: Bottled Water, Nitrile food safe gloves, and Complete Pancake Mix. The impact: The items go towards helping our community receive access to food security. The water helps with our volunteers and members. The gloves help our community dining and the pancake mix serves a dual purpose in our community dining and grassroots grocery (pantry) area.