CHARLOTTE, N.C. β GardHouse, A Charlotte-based nonprofit that develops college students of color for employment, will host a raffle for two tickets to the upcoming Usher concert stop in Charlotte.
The organization will use the funds collected from the raffle to support ten college students with paid internships for Black and Brown students. The lucky winner will receive two tickets to the Past, Present, Future Tour that will visit Charlotte on October 22nd, 2024 at Spectrum Center.
βWe are always looking for unique ways to garner donations while educating the community on issues that college students face while they are pursuing higher education and planning their career goals. Why not give someone that supported a college student the opportunity to see Usher in the process?β said Jonathan Gardner, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Founder and Executive Director of GardHouse. βWe launched our $100k donation campaign to help college students while they navigate college. Expenses should not be on their minds, education should.
GardHouse has welcomed over 30 interns into its 2023-24 cohort. The organizationΒ partnersΒ with Charlotte-basedΒ businesses andΒ nonprofits, such as the Latin American Chamber of Commerce and 100 Black Men of Charlotte, to provide paid 10-week internships atΒ roughly $20 an hour.Β Since its 2019 inception, GardHouse interns have performed more than 3,500 internship hours.
The organization also offers financial literacy workshops for students throughout the academic semester led by corporate partners such as Truliant, Wells Fargo, and Commonwealth Charlotte. To participate, donors can purchase $25 raffle tickets via the organizationβsΒ websiteΒ to be entered into the drawing. The winner will be announced on April 25th.
