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Applications due Sept. 15 for Alternative Fall Break

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Students make sandwiches during a service project.Alternative Fall Break is a positive way to spend your fall break week by serving others and learning while you serve. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to learn more about services for individuals requiring food assistance with multiple barriers to healthy food attainment, joining organizations throughout Asheville in their mission to develop, support and advocate for food justice and food insecurity.

Participants will depart on Sunday morning on Oct. 8, and return on Friday evening on October 13.

The application is due on September 15. 

Learn more and apply for Alternative Fall Break. 

Join the Service Projects for MLK Challenge week Jan. 23-27

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Side profile art of Martine Luther King Jr. and 2023 MLK Challenge at Central PiedmontAre you looking to start the year off with service to your community, earn service hours towards receiving a service pin at graduation, or get a FREE t-shirt?

Sign up TODAY for the 19th annual MLK Challenge January 23-27! The purpose of this challenge is to engage the Central Piedmont Community in advancing racial and social justice, developing a deeper knowledge of self-identity and community activism, and honoring the legacy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We will partner with five nonprofit organizations who embody what MLK stood for.

Multiple service opportunities will be offered during the week that may fit your schedule, so find the best day/time for you! There will be a group reflection and lunch to follow.

You can also join us for our MLK Kick-Off Program on January 19 at 12 p.m., Central Campus – Parr Center Theater. There will be a keynote speaker and spoken word poetry by an artist of the Poet Laureate of Charlotte!

Register today for the 2023 MLK Challenge!

If you have any questions about the projects or the 2023 MLK Challenge, please email Whitney Williams (whitney.williams@cpcc.edu).

Sign up for Fall Break Service Event

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How are you spending your fall break? Join Central Piedmont Student Engagement, in partnership with Supportive Housing Communities (SHC), for a fall break service project. The service project will take place on Monday, Oct. 10, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at McCreesh Place. Students must register to attend the project by Wednesday, Oct. 5.

McCreesh Place is Charlotte’s first permanent supportive housing complex to house the chronically homeless in active recovery from addiction. The complex has 64-single room units with communal bathrooms and kitchens, and 26 one-bedroom units.

Service Details: Student volunteers will receive a tour of McCreesh Place and receive education on the resources provided by SHC and the importance of their nonprofit organization to the Charlotte community. Volunteers will then clean and sanitize eight communal mini-kitchen spaces to ensure the areas are clean and safe.
If you have any questions, contact whitney.williams@cpcc.edu or 704.330.6745.

Community Service Project: 58 Strong in 100 Counties

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Is sewing one of your talents? Or are you looking for a new hobby? We are participating in the North Carolina Community College System Community Service Project and we want to help our medical community with the shortage of medical masks.

Atrium Health has provided some simple guidelines to sew masks. Check out this short tutorial.  Please send an email to communitybenefit@atriumhealth.org to arrange delivery. Masks will be cleaned and distributed. Extras will go to other organizations.

Anyone that makes 50 masks will get a “58 Strong” NCCCS t-shirt. You’ll need to upload pictures and or video of your masks to this FORM to receive your t-shirt. Deadline to complete masks is June 1. Your photos and videos will be shown at the NCCCS Conference in October. Contact Jesse.Bennett@cpcc.edu for more information.