Intersections
Where your priorities meet
and change begins
Intersections reveals how the issues we care about most connect across our community – and helps us find our starting point for action.
About Intersections
See the full picture of civic issues in our community.
Intersections is a free, interactive tool from fftc:FWD that reveals how civic issues connect to shape our community. No issue exists in isolation, and when you see how they overlap, you can take smart, targeted action.
Choose two or three topics, generate your personalized brief, and discover where your path to making a difference.
How It Works
Three steps to your Intersections brief
Choose your topics
Pick two or three issues that matter most to you, from housing and public safety to food insecurity, transportation, and more. Over 17 topics to explore and more on the way each month.
Create your brief
The tool produces a personalized Intersections brief mapping how your issues connect and impact people in our community.
See your path
Use your brief to identify where your energy, advocacy, or resources can create the most meaningful impact in our community.
The Bigger Picture
Civic challenges don’t exist in silos.
A family navigating food insecurity may also face transportation gaps, housing instability, and limited digital access — all at once. Intersections helps you see those links clearly so solutions go deeper than a single-issue lens.
See Systemic Connections
Understand how issues overlap and influence each other across community systems, not just in isolation.
Focus Your Impact
Identify the highest-leverage starting points where your advocacy, funding, or time can ripple across multiple issues.
Build Stronger Coalitions
Discover natural allies by understanding which organizations and efforts already work at the intersections of the issues you care about.
Navigate With Confidence
Turn complexity into clarity with a structured, personalized analysis built for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community.
Built For You
Who is Intersections for?
Anyone who wants to make a difference in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community — with a clearer, deeper view of what’s at stake.
Nonprofit Leaders
Map program strategy across issue areas and build the case for cross-sector impact with data-backed insights.
Community Advocates
Build coalitions and campaigns around overlapping priorities that go further when tackled together.
Funders & Grantmakers
Explore systemic opportunities and understand the downstream effects of investments across issue areas.
Engaged Residents
Understand the bigger picture and find your personal pathway to meaningful civic action in your community.
Ready to see how our priorities connect?
Choose your topics and generate your personalized civic analysis — in minutes. Free, no account required.