While the vast majority of Life Plan communities are content with providing quality living environments for their elders, Aldersgate believes that non-profit retirement communities can and should try to do more. That’s why our board, residents and leadership take an entrepreneurial spirit to philanthropy. We reach out to our local community in the spirit of collaboration to build bridges and create solutions.
Many of our residents stand with us to create positive change throughout East Charlotte. As lifelong learners, natural teachers and mentors, our residents have a bevy of collective talents that we harness to make a difference for local students.
For six weeks every summer, our residents work with school-age children to build reading, writing and study skills.
This intergenerational mentoring program pairs school-age immigrant children with elders from our community.
This non-profit helps students from underserved communities to prepare, navigate and enroll in higher education.
During 2020, we responded to the unexpected with vital solutions and assistance for our team members.
We created the Learning Support Pod to provide a stable learning environment for our team member’s children during the pandemic school closures.
We created a food pantry stocked with free, nutritious groceries that are culturally relevant and of ample variety to address food insecurity.
We matched contributions from our residents and outside sources dollar-for-dollar to raise $131,000 for our team members during COVID-19.
We believe in supporting our local businesses through partnership and patronage. The benefits of supporting local businesses help us live our commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity by spending funds locally that would be spent anyway.
We purchase a cake from Charlotte’s first Hispanic bakery for every Aldersgate resident on his or her birthday, as well as one for each student enrolled in our ourBRIDGE for Kids.
When customers heard the restaurant might be in trouble, Aldersgate was there! Buying meals and gift certificates from Lang Van supports our local community’s economy.
We partner with a local Hispanic florist for all our floral needs. In return, we are refunded 10% of our purchase each year which is donated to our Guardian Angel Fund.
Call our Chief Branding and Community Engagement Officer Brooks Shelley at (704) 307-6231 or email at Brookss@AldersgateLiving.org to learn more.
