Target partners with Families Forward Charlotte to help with back-to-school shopping

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – With CMS students heading back to the classroom next week, Target stores are partnering with Families Forward Charlotte to ensure dozens of students start the new school year with the supplies they need. Families Forward is a non-profit working to help break the cycle of inter-generational poverty that makes upward mobility too difficult for many families across the Queen City.

Parent Katrina Guiles says, “It’s such a blessing. It’s definitely bringing great joy. You never know what some of us are going through. So this definitely came through. I’m lost for words.”

On Tuesday, the Target store on Metropolitan Avenue in Midtown hosted 75 children. Each got a $100 gift card to get the school supplies they need.