Mayor Anthony Foxx and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Coalition for Housing are hosting an Interfaith Summit on affordable housing and homelessness on Friday, March 9, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at The Park Expo and Conference Center.

As part of National Mentoring Month, Mayor Anthony Foxx and the Mayor’s Mentoring Alliance have scheduled a series of events to encourage and promote mentoring as a way to positively impact young people in the City of Charlotte.

The City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the Charlotte Housing Authority are now jointly accepting proposals from developers for Supportive Housing Developments.

On January 24 at 5:00 p.m., MYEP will host its second annual Energy Career Discovery Day event at Discovery Place, where Charlotte’s Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Cannon will unveil the new Job Skills Certification program to the MYEP high school participants.

Each year, KCB board members select a neighborhood to participate in their neighborhood adoption program. This program was created to fund small beautification projects that enhance the quality of life in Charlotte neighborhoods.

The Neighborhood Energy Challenge (NEC) - Power2 Live Green Grant is a competitive grant opportunity designed to encourage neighborhoods to implement practical strategies for reducing energy use and costs.

The Centralina Council of Governments received a $4.9M Regional Planning Grant Award from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) to develop a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development.

Mayor Anthony Foxx has proclaimed Saturday, November 26 to be the second annual ‘Small Business Saturday’ in Charlotte as part of a national movement to support local small businesses on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.

The City of Charlotte is partnering with Mission Serve, Inc. to conduct a community improvement project in the Hidden Valley neighborhood, July 24 – 29, 2011.

On August 13 at 8:00 a.m., the second annual 5K Rock-‘N-Run will kick off at the NC Music Factory (1000 Seaboard Street).