IN THE COMMUNITY
The Charlotte Rescue Mission and Community Matters Cafe
The Charlotte Rescue Mission and the Community Matters Café are near and dear to Woodson and her family. Each Christmas morning the Bradley Family Tradition is to wake up at 5:30 and report for kitchen duty at the Community Matters Café to serve a warm and love-filled breakfast to those in need. It is something we look forward to each Christmas morning and a tradition we have enjoyed together with our children since 2017. You will also see Woodson having lunch with friends at the Community Matters Café regularly and she loves sharing this great lunch spot!
Community Action and Head Start
Community Action changes people's lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities, and makes America a better place to live. We care about the entire community and we are dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other.
Head Start is a Federal program that promotes the school readiness of children from birth to age five from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Head Start programs provide a learning environment that supports children's growth in many areas such as language, literacy, and social and emotional development. Head Start emphasizes the role of parents as their child's first and most important teacher. These programs help build relationships with families that support family well-being and many other important areas.
Woodson and her family helped sponsor some of North Carolina’s largest Big Pop Up drive-thru events in the state and she actively helped load supplies in more than 1,500 cars at each event. From household supplies, diapers, food, water, medical/first aid supplies, children’s toys, and cleaning products. She is well known in Charlotte and across the state for her work and support of Community Action and Head Start agencies.
InReach
InReach provides a wide variety of services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Woodson is very proud to work with InReach and is a member of the InReach Dream Makers Society and was the keynote speaker for their annual fundraising luncheon in 2022. She volunteers with them and is an ambassador to all of the services they provide for their clients and families.
LifeSpan Services
LIFESPAN works every day with individuals of all ages and differing abilities, helping them experience the "precious ordinary" of life.
Woodson has worked with LifeSpan in a fundraising and awareness capacity since 2017 and hosted the first LifeSpan Monte Carlo Evening event in her home. It was such a success, it has now grown into an evening event in uptown Charlotte with almost 400 people and is an evening of love, hope, and celebration for the families and clients of such a great organization.
Classroom Central
Classroom Central empowers teachers and students in more than 220 schools across six Charlotte-area school districts, providing supplies and resources through our Free Store, Mobile Free Store, and several other community-supported programs.
Woodson volunteers at Classroom Central and helps load teacher vehicles with the school supplies for their students and classrooms. Having a teaching background herself, Woodson enjoys meeting teachers from Charlotte and helping them bring needed supplies to their students.
