We’re in this together
We’re not just learning about our community. We’re building it together.
fftc:FWD is a civic empowerment platform for everyone in Charlotte-Mecklenburg — making it faster and easier for people, groups, and organizations to find what they need to lead on the issues and topics they care about.
Whether you’re ready to get involved, volunteer, donate, make funding decisions, or advocate — your starting point is here.
fftc:FWD is a civic empowerment platform for everyone.
fftc:FWD is an innovative civic leadership platform from the Robinson Center for Civic Leadership at Foundation for the Carolinas that makes it easier and faster for people, groups, and organizations to find what they need to lead on issues and topics they care about in our community.
People find answers to critical questions when they want to get involved, volunteer, donate, make funding decisions, explore partnerships, or advocate in the community.
Who
is doing what and do they connect to each other?
What
issues are important in our community and to me?
When
I want to know more, how can I find what I need?
Where
can I easily see opportunities for collaboration and partnership?
How
can I help?
fftc:FWD Folios provide on ramps to knowledge, data, and information on key topics and themes to broaden access to the levers of change for everyone’s access and use.
Folios — A fftc:FWD Resource
Everything you need to lead on the issues that matter most.
A Folio is your all-in-one guide to a civic issue in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. Each one brings together key facts, local organizations, tools and resources, action steps, and the lingo you need to know — so you can go from curious to informed to engaged, faster. Explore the topic that speaks to you and find your way in.
Intersections — A fftc:FWD Tool
See where your priorities connect — and where change begins.
No civic issue exists in isolation. Intersections is a free, interactive tool that reveals how the topics you care about overlap across community systems — giving you a clearer, personalized pathway to action in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. Choose your topics, generate your brief, and discover where your energy can make the biggest difference.
Maps — A fftc:FWD Tool
See who's doing what — and how it all connects.
Maps is a powerful new visual network tool coming to fftc:FWD. It transforms the Charlotte-Mecklenburg civic ecosystem into an interactive, navigable map — showing you the organizations, networks, relationships, and shared goals that shape life in our region.
Built in partnership with Visible Network Labs and their PARTNER CPRM platform — a community relationship management system for tracking, measuring, and visualizing civic ecosystems — Maps will allow anyone to see the full landscape of who is connected to what, and where collaboration opportunities live.
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