CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Monday, Nov. 16, 2020) – In partnership with national nonprofit organization the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund), the City of Charlotte and Common Wealth Charlotte announced today the launch of a free Financial Navigators program to help residents navigate critical financial issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

You may not know the name, and that’s OK with Executive Director Chuck Jones and his team. The nonprofit group, Common Wealth Charlotte, isn’t trying to build a brand. They’re trying to help families become more financially stable.

Written by Page Leggett on October 22, 2020 for Charlotte is Creative

Written by UWCC News

More than $10 million awarded over three rounds of grants to nonprofits meeting local needs

More than $3.5 million has been awarded to 67 local nonprofits in the third round of grants from the COVID-19 Response Fund. To date, more than $10 million has been granted to nonprofits helping those affected by the pandemic with basic needs such as child care, education, housing, food, emergency financial assistance, legal advocacy, health and mental health and workforce development.

Executive Director of Common Wealth Charlotte Chuck Jones joins Good Day Charlotte to talk about how the nonprofit provides financial education to Charlotte’s low wage workers and at-risk teens.

Aired on Jan 7, 2020 on FOX46

This story was written by Greg Lacour and published in Charlotte Magazine on January 29, 2018

The other night, over cheap domestic beer, I was chatting with a friend about money. She’s not rich. Neither am I. But we both grew up in middle-class households, where it was assumed that at some point, well before adulthood, you’d learn the essentials of stewardship of your own money: You’d open a savings account, learn what interest is, and grasp the basic principle that you ought to put some money aside for when you might need it rather than spend it as you get it.