Making good and doing greater
Powered by Do Greater Charlotte, Make for Good extends a critical mission: to use creativity and technology as pathways to upward mobility, ensuring that purpose-driven organizations have the tools to tell their stories and thrive. We believe creativity is a tool for equity, access, and transformation.
What began as Make a Mark Charlotte, a 12-hour creative make-a-thon founded by Kate Micham and Nicole Reyes, has grown into a movement
Make for Good operates on a simple but powerful idea: when we make for good, we make change possible. Our mission is to expand creative access, amplify voices doing meaningful work, and strengthen the social and economic fabric of our community. Whether serving a nonprofit seeking awareness — or an emerging entrepreneur striving for growth — Make for Good transforms creative energy and professional skill into lasting impact.
This is what it means to make for good: to make with purpose, to make with heart, and to make a difference.
We’re proud of our numbers:
6 years and 70+ nonprofits served
2018: 11 nonprofits + 33 makers
2019: 15 nonprofits + 55 makers
2020: 10 nonprofits + 30 makers
2023: 13 nonprofits + 50 makers
2024: 12 nonprofits + 45 makers
2025: 11 nonprofits + 45 makers
Past Recipients
A Child’s Place
Affordable Housing for the Carolinas
A Fresh Start
Agape Acres
Anuvia
Angels in Disguise
Baby Bundles
BackSpinz Music Academy
Beds for Kids
Bethany’s Butterflies
Black Pickleball & Co.
Brave Step
BraveWorks
Cambodian Legacy Project
Cakeable
Care Ring
Carolina Family Connections
Champions of Change
Charlotte Black Dogs
Charlotte Community Toolbank
Charlotte is Creative
Charlotte Family Housing
Congregations for Kids
Crittenton of North Carolina
Digi-Bridge
Do Greater Charlotte
Exposure Project
Faith Action House
Families Forward Charlotte
FARM127
Fearless Brown Girls
Feast for Good
First Gen Success
Food Connection CLT
Foster Village
Green Box Solutions
Healing Vine Harbor
Hinds Feet Farm
Life for the Hopeless Foundation
LiveLearnPlay
Machiah’s House, Inc.
McLeod Centers for Wellbeing
MeckEd
Mind Body Baby NC
Money Magnets
NeedMeeters
Paws & Reset
Pop Up Produce
Rebuilding Together
repCLT
Renaissance West Community Initiative
Resound
RIC’s Market Foundation
Right Moves for Youth
Sanctuary Counseling Group
Smithville CommUnity Coalition
Sustain CLT
Soccer Foundation of Charlotte
Soft Work
Strong Like AK
Teaching Fellows Institute
Teen Health Connection
The Academy of Goal Achievers
The Park Community Development Coalition
Time Out Youth
Trips for Kids
Village to Village Leadership Foundation
Wayfinders
Wayfinders Youth Leadership Council
“(Make for Good) is giving us access to resources we just didn’t have. As a smaller nonprofit, it takes community; it takes support.”
