On a warm Saturday morning in late October 2025, Eddie graduated from Crisis Assistance Ministry’s Financial Empowerment service. Following months of one-on-one counseling filled with honest — and sometimes challenging — conversations with his Financial Empowerment Specialist, Randee, Eddie marked his hard work with a graduation celebration. Life Before Financial Empowerment In early 2025, Eddie was married with four children. He had a thriving […]
Crisis Assistance Ministry sits at the corner of Statesville Avenue and Graham Street, just outside of uptown Charlotte — and at the edge of a great many people’s lives. Consider Mandy and Shawn. They have never met. But not long ago, they both found themselves in the very same place: waiting anxiously in the lobby of Crisis Assistance […]
For most people, getting a raise at work is cause for celebration.
But for thousands of hardworking families, a raise can trigger something unexpected – and dangerous – called the benefits cliff.
Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for seeing me past my circumstances because I’ve come out on the other side.
More than two decades ago, then WSOC Meteorologist Steve Udelson saw a need and rallied the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community to solve it. That first year, viewers donated about 3,000 coats for people served by Crisis Assistance Ministry. By the time Steve retired, the annual collection was averaging more than 30,000 coats. All told, Steve’s Coats is […]
On the day her family sought help at Crisis Assistance Ministry, Jennifer had to use her gas card at the convenience store to get bread and peanut butter to feed her three young children. It was the only way. They were completely out of cash and she did not have anything else to help them […]
When we first told Julia’s story, almost a decade ago now, she was emerging from life-altering tragedy and grateful to have found help and hope at Crisis Assistance Ministry. With your support, her utilities were restored, she was connected to one-on-one coaching for longer term housing stability, and later found her voice as a Customer […]
Every day in Mecklenburg County, families face unexpected crises – a job loss, a medical emergency, or a sudden rent increase – that threaten to upend their stability. When that happens, no one should have to face those challenges alone. That belief drives Crisis Assistance Ministry’s Partner Agency Network, a collaboration of organizations working together to ensure help arrives […]
