Our Why:

The PACU Foundation is committed to help local residents overcome financial hardship throughout the Triad and Charlotte communities. The foundation advances charitable giving to support access to financial literacy, education and training, and disaster and emergency assistance. Since forming in 2020, the PACU Foundation has gifted more than $100,000 to local area charities.

2024 Supported Nonprofits:

• A Storehouse for Jesus: A volunteer-led distribution and medical ministry assisting in-need residents due to financial constraints, illness, domestic violence and homelessness with clothing, food, household and care needs, serving Davie County and surrounding areas
  
• Education Over Debt Foundation: Scholarships to African American high school students in Mecklenburg County who plan to attend college or university, along with helping the area’s undocumented high school students of color on a path to citizenship and continuing education
  
• Help, Incorporated’s Square One Family Justice Center: Financial safety resources to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse and human trafficking, along with its newly constructed SquareOne facility, serving Rockingham County
  
• Jim Shaw ACE Academy: Comprehensive education in aviation, financial literacy and STEM to middle and high school students in Forsyth County, empowering these young minds to change the face of aviation
  
• The Christian Mission: A holistic approach to combat intergenerational poverty with crisis assistance, case management and educational programming, serving Iredell County
  
• The Women’s Resource Center of Greensboro: The promotion of self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing resources and acting as a gateway to community resources