WHO WE SUPPORT

The Dale Jr. Foundation has made a monumental impact in the local community since its beginning. Dedicated to giving underprivileged individuals, with a focus on youth, the resources to achieve extraordinary goals, TDJF has contributed to more than 300 charities nationally and locally.

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Children's Hope Alliance- Giving Hope to Children & Families
Children’s Hope Alliance is committed to helping children and families of all shapes, sizes and definitions through a vast array of community-based services. Our comprehensive programs give hope to North Carolina’s children and families by providing a safe family home, a pathway to healing and a healthy start toward a bright future.
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Blessings in a Backpack
Blessings in a Backpack is a results oriented program. This unique program is designed to feed elementary school children whose families qualify for the federally funded Free/Reduced Price Meal program and have little or no food on the weekends. Better test scores, improved reading skills, positive behavior, improved health and increased attendance have all been attributed to the success of this program. It costs $100 to feed one American school child in our program for an entire 38 week school year. Blessings in a Backpack is currently feeding nearly 76,000+ children in 700+ schools across 46 U.S. States and the District of Columbia and three countries. We are Feeding the Future of America® - one school at a time.
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Camp Luck
Camp LUCK transforms heart kids into Lucky Unlimited Cardiac Kids by programs designed to nurture, educate and support the kids and their families. It’s more than a camp; it’s an attitude… and changing attitudes changes lives. Camp LUCK is an organization built to support families within the Charlotte area that have kids with significant heart diseases. Camp LUCK incorporates that magical Camp atmosphere into everything that they do. They host many support services (inpatient and outpatient), season socials and education sessions, as well as a Family Camp weekend and Kids Camp, a weeklong resident camp for heart kids and their siblings.
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Make-A-Wish of Central and Western North Carolina
Founded by Dr. Jerry Clark, this chapter of Make-A-Wish was chartered in 1985. The chapter was originally called the Charlotte Clark Chapter in honor Dr. Clarks' first wife, whom he lost to cancer. The Central and Western NC Chapter covers the state from Burlington (Alamance County) through the 51 counties to the west. We maintain offices in Asheville, Charlotte & Greensboro. As of January 2019, Dale Jr. has granted 251 Wishes. This is achieved by very few celebrities in a lifetime. Dale is one of five individuals who have reached this milestone.
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FeedNC
At FeedNC, we see our programs and initiatives as investments in the most precious resource of all—our community. We believe in the potential of every individual and family, and our commitment to providing food, education, and resources represents a heartfelt investment in their well-being and future. By channeling resources into programs that nourish and empower individuals, we believe we are not only addressing immediate hunger but also fostering self-reliance, economic growth, and social well-being. Just as wise investments yield long-term dividends, our commitment to these initiatives ensures that, over time, we'll harvest a community that is not only well-fed but also equipped to thrive and pay it forward, creating a more robust and connected society for all.
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Nationwide Children's Hospital
America’s largest pediatric hospital and research center, ranked 9th of only 12 children's hospitals on U.S. News & World Report’s 2015-16 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll,”. Nationwide Children’s has a medical staff of 1,100 and nearly 10,000 employees providing state-of-the-art pediatric care for one million patient visits annually. Nationwide Children’s remains true to the original mission since its founding in 1892 of providing care regardless of a family’s ability to pay. More information is available at
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Pat's Place
Pat’s Place Child Advocacy Center coordinates the investigation, prosecution and treatment of the most severe cases of child abuse in Mecklenburg County. As the only child advocacy center in Charlotte, Pat’s Place serves children from birth through age 18. All services are provided in a nurturing, friendly and safe environment at no cost to a child’s family. Last year, Pat’s Place served more than 600 children (and their caregivers) who were sexually abused, severely physically abused, or who had witnessed a violent crime