Simplicity Serves
Simplicity Serves
There are lots of families in Charlotte facing difficult circumstances and overwhelmed by life’s challenges. Simplicity offers complimentary organizational services to those who are unable to afford our professional services.
Ready to Serve
Volunteers are needed to offer their time and organizational skills to those in need.
Contact us to find out more about our Simplicity Serves training program and field work.
Recipients
Searching for organizational support?
Simplicity knows there are families facing difficult circumstances and are overwhelmed by life’s challenges. We offer complimentary organizational services to those in need.
Contact us to fill out an application.
(Unfortunately, not all applicants will be accepted.)
Financial Support
Financial gifts are needed to support, maintain, and organize homes and lives in Charlotte. Your donation will help cover the cost of professional help and organizing supplies.
These gifts are not tax-deductible but will make a powerful impact.
Simplicity Serves in the Community
Simplicity Serves came together with Simple Wellness and West Blvd. Ministries to create healthy food boxes to help people during the beginning stages of the pandemic. They also collected school supplies to support Greater Enrichment program, Foster Village, and Congregation for Kids. (April 2020)
Our Simplicity Serves’ volunteers helped organize donated supplies at the Men’s Shelter of Charlotte to help their nonprofit fun more efficiently.
(January 2020)
Simplicity Serves helped Carolina Breast Friends organize the rooms in their Pink House. (December 2019)
Simplicity was honored to partner with West Blvd Ministry to help set up for their annual coat drive. (November 2019)
Simplicity’s team helped Pender Murphy, founder of TLA (Tucker Leighton Avram Tennis) and Queens College tennis coach, organize donations from the community at East Mecklenburg High School for his tennis program. (September 2019)
Simplicity helped TLC (The Learning Collaborative) to organize their school supplies for the upcoming school year. (May & July 2019)
Our annual READ a Book, GIVE a Book event provided 5,700 books to Windsor Park Elementary school. Each child was able to take home a bag of books along with a brand new copy of Kathy Izard’s book, A Good Night for Mr. Coleman. (May 2019)
Simplicity partnered with Junkluggers to hold a car seat & baby item donation drive for MiraVia. (October 2018)
Simplicity volunteers to organize classrooms and maker spaces at Charlotte Lab School.
(September 2018)
Simplicity volunteers to organize the home a local family going through a medical crisis.
(September 2018)
Thanks to the Charlotte community, 6,500 books were donated to Windsor Park Elementary school for Simplicity’s book drive, READ a Book, GIVE a Book so that each student could take home ten books. (May 2018)
Spring Clean out! Simplicity spends a day with the Bremer Family organizing their garage (April 2018).
Simplicity volunteers to organize Windsor Park Elementary’s gym storage closet. (April 2018)
Simplicity volunteers to organize Greenway Park Elementary School’s Teacher Resource Room. (September 2017)
Simplicity volunteers to organize Cotswold Elementary’s PTA closet. (June 2017)
Thanks to the Charlotte community, 6,000 books were donated to Windsor Park Elementary school for Simplicity’s book drive, READ a Book, GIVE a Book. (June 2017)
Simplicity team members volunteered their time to organize donated items for the Key Resale shop‘s new location. (January 2017)
Simplicity Organizers team up with Carolina Organizers to create new organizational systems at Fashion Compassion. (July 2016)
Simplicity team and College Hunks Hauling Junk volunteer at The Relatives to organize their basement. The Relatives newsletter featured our organizing day. (August 2016)
Thanks to the Charlotte community, over 6,000 children’s books were donated to Montclair and Rama Road Elementary schools for Simplicity’s book drive: Read a Book Give a Book.
Simplicity volunteers for the Joe Martin ALS foundation helping a client organize their closet.
Simplicity team members volunteer at Project Scientist helping organize 100 science experiments for their summer academy program for 700 girls.
Thanks to the Charlotte community over 6,000 books were donated to Sedgefield Elementary for Simplicity’s book drive READ a Book, GIVE a Book! (June 2014)
Simplicity team members volunteer at Charlotte’s Ronald McDonald House in memory of Grier Christenbury helping organize their kitchen and pantry.
Simplicity helped collect over 375 t-shirts for the Re-threaded program. Rethreaded loves people affected by the sex trade by fostering relationship and life-giving community. Their vision is to unravel the effects of the sex trade by fighting business with business on a global and local level. They provide safe, viable, and dignity-giving work to survivors of the sex trade.
Simplicity volunteered and helped sponsor the UROCk Donor Celebration for Baby Bundles on Thursday, February 27th, 2014. Baby Bundles is a non-profit that provides newborn essentials to mothers in financial need in the Charlotte area, helping them get a positive start with their baby and directly impacting their role as a mother.
Simplicity team member, Andrea Gill, had the opportunity to contribute her organizational skills to “The Teacher Project” at Greenway Park Elementary. Greenway Park is a Title I school in Charlotte that has benefited from several community partnerships with churches and businesses.
Simplicity supports The Relatives, which serves as the Safe Place agency for Mecklenburg County and the surrounding area, partnering with local businesses to ensure young people in need have access to immediate help and supportive resources. Simplicity sponsors their annual fundraiser, Breakfast with The Relatives, organizing their basement, and collecting donations for their home on East Boulevard.
Simplicity partnered with Trent Corbin of Lodestone Real Estate, Alan Romack of Captain Clutter and Whitley Hamlin of Queen City Style to start Warm Charlotte, a mobile drop-off site that helps collect cold weather goods and distributes them to local non-profits serving the homeless community in Charlotte.
Simplicity works with Baby Bundles to create systems for tracking and categorizing incoming inventory, so that it can be quickly distributed to young moms in need.
Simplicity worked with the ladies at the Dove’s Nest to teach them organizational skills. We helped them purge their home in Dilworth and set up new systems at their expanded facility on West Boulevard.