About Community Outreach

Many churches have people who are passionate about feeding the hungry in their city, and they feel the need to start a food pantry - so they do. The youth group adopts a neighborhood, the seniors read to the kids at the school, the women's ministry serves food at Thanksgiving, the men start a remodeling ministry and on and on it goes. All of these things are wonderful but here is the problem: spreading out the leaders, resources and man-power will exert maximum effort while achieving minimal impact.

At Elevation we have decided to flip this model of Church Outreach on its head. Rather than spread everything out, we're focusing! We are concentrating all our efforts on several strategic community outreach partners that are already knocking it out of the park in our city! Currently, Elevation is partnered with twenty different organizations in the city of Charlotte. Our goal is to continue to reach out to our city through partnerships that are making a difference.

We are often asked, "How can a non-profit become a community outreach partner of Elevation?" Since we strive to develop strategic partnerships focused on community impact we are very strategic in our selection of community outreach partners. Key characteristics include sound resource stewardship and effective volunteer engagement processes, since we're committed to engaging our people in service with our partners. Each fiscal year, we review all of our partnerships regarding their effectiveness and their plans for the year ahead. If your organization is interested in submitting a grant proposal to Elevation, please view our application.