HOW WE WORK:
collecting supplies
Currently we collect pads, tampons, and hygiene wipes through donations. We primarily use our Amazon wishlist to keep these products "in stock" so that they can be distributed throughout the city. We also have various Official Flo Charlotte Collection Centers, where supplies can be dropped off. A member of the Flo Charlotte team picks up donations from each of these collection centers monthly!
distributing supplies
Flo Charlotte aims to become a resource to those organizations that are on the front lines fighting homelessness, poverty, and violence. Products are distributed throughout the city as the need arises from local shelters, schools, and agencies. Pads and tampons are dropped off at locations around Charlotte for distribution.
Where we donate:
charlotte-area schools
We are working diligently to form connections with social workers throughout CMS and have delivered boxes of pads to many elementary, middle, and high schools in the Charlotte-metro area. In the 2023 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Instability and Homeless Report, it was reported that “4,815 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Students [were experiencing homelessness] in the 2022-2023 school year.” In the report, it was noted that this was a “2% increase from 2018-2019 school year.” Read the full report here.
In the 2022-2023 school year, Flo Charlotte donated to 48 elementary, middle, and high schools! Every single supply we handed out was funded or sent in by community donations. What an incredible testament to the truly generous and community-minded nature of the humans who live in the Charlotte-metro area and beyond!
Please let us know if your school could benefit from access to feminine hygiene products for your students!
The Classroom Central team is amazing at what they do!
Classroom central
Classroom Central has a mission to support educators in and around Charlotte by providing them with supplies that students need to succeed. Both Classroom Central and Flo Charlotte believe that period products are essential to keeping students in class! The demand for pads in schools in the area is enormous. Partnering with Classroom Central helps our small board make a bigger impact!
We donate pads to them that are delivered to select area schools (for now!) who have expressed interest in receiving these products. They are really in touch with the educators with whom they work, and we are so grateful for that. We are hoping to expand our reach with them if inventory allows!
2116 Wilkinson Blvd.
Charlotte, NC
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Salvation army center for hope
This facility sleeps an average of ~300 women and children each night. Their goal is to end homelessness by implementing programs that include emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and shelter diversion. (source: SACFH website.)
534 Spratt Street
Charlotte, NC
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ada jenkins center
Ricketa and Audrey tour the food pantry at Ada Jenkins Center after adding some period products to the shelves.
The Ada Jenkins Center carries on the legacy of Mrs. Ada Jenkins by providing services for adult and youth education, a food pantry, case services, and emergency financial support. Flo Charlotte stocks their pantry with period products on an ongoing basis as needed.
212 Gamble Street
Davidson, NC
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safe alliance
Safe Alliance is a shelter for women in crisis. This includes, but is not limited to, victims of sexual or domestic assault.
601 E. 5th Street, Ste. 400
Charlotte, NC
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Mecklenburg County - Department of social services, youth and family services division
The Youth and Family Services Division works with youth that are in transition and/or in foster care. We are happy to provide pads and tampons to the office of social workers for the youth they serve in case there is a need for such products.
atrium health - COMMUNITY NAVIGATOR PROGRAM
Flo has begun working directly with a Community Navigator from Atrium Health. The goal of this program is to “connect patients to nutrition benefits, emergency food, housing, transportation, and mental health services.” (source) This is a unique way Atrium Health is meeting not just the physical and mental health needs of its patients, but the socioeconomic needs as well.
The cw williams community health center
This organization improves the physical and psychosocial status of the residents of Mecklenburg and surrounding counties by providing access to the highest quality comprehensive family health and ancillary services to all. (source: CW Williams website)
534 Spratt Street
Charlotte, NC
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family promise of york county
This organization connects families who want to impact their community with those families in need. Rock Hill, SC, is just a few miles south of Charlotte, NC, and is considered part of the Greater Charlotte area.
404 East Main Street
Rock Hill, SC
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charlotte rescue mission - dove's nest
Dove's Nest is a women's recovery program that has two residential homes within Charlotte for women undergoing recovery from addiction. Donation pending delivery. The program focuses on healing from addiction, as well as mental, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.
2855 West Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28208
The POWERHOUSE PROJECT
This organization encourages HIV testing and prevention measures, as well as provides support.
1420 Beatties Ford Road
Charlotte, NC
Time Out youth
Time Out Youth Center offers support, advocacy, and opportunities for personal development and social interaction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth ages 11-20.
3800 Monroe Road
Charlotte, NC 28205
hope street food pantry
Hope Street saw a need for food resources in their location specifically when they realized most students in their area qualified for free or reduced lunch costs at school. They sprung into action and try to stay stocked with groceries, hygiene supplies, and other things that someone may need but may not otherwise be able to access.
4100 Johnston Oehler Road
Charlotte, NC
UNHEARD VOICES CLT
Unheard Voices CLT is an organization that we recently started collaborating with. According to the website, Unheard Voices “is a nonprofit organization founded by women whose goal is to create equality in our community by helping disadvantaged individuals and their pets. To accomplish this we are initiating a variety of projects tailored to different needs in our neighborhoods.”
Currently they are working on their project called Bags of Love. They are collecting purses and bags and filling them with hygiene supplies for distribution.
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