With lack of time, skills, and resources, people and businesses can easily become overwhelmed and paralyzed by the amount of clutter in their homes or professional spaces.
In 2019, Laurie turned her passion of helping others and giving back into Simplicity Serves, is a 501c3 which offers complimentary organizing services t0 local schools, nonprofits and families in crisis.
Currently composed of 54 volunteers, this organization has helped over 45 local nonprofits, 6 local families, and has collected and donated over 25,000 children’s books to Title One Schools in Charlotte.
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PTA Closet at Sharon Elementary
Our Simplicity Serves’ volunteers helped organize the PTA closet at Sharon Elementary. (October 2024)
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Families Forward
Fourteen volunteers with Simplicity Serves organized six storage rooms in two days at Families Forward.
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Metro School Lab
Simplicity Serves volunteers spent the day at Metro School. They organized the Intervention Lab, media storage closet, gym storage closet and laundry room (February and April 2024)
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Charlotte Rescue Mission
Simplicity Serves volunteers organized the new Gift in Kind building at the Charlotte Rescue Mission. (March 2024)
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Sharon Road Elementary
Volunteers with Simplicity Serves organized the teacher workroom at Sharon Road Elementary. (October 2024)
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In Memory of: Josie Sanctis
It was such an honor helping Josie organize her entire home after battling a rare bone cancer. Josie passed away unexpectedly on December 5th, 2022. (July 2022)
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Renaissance West STEAM Academy
Simplicity Serves volunteers helped Renaissance West STEAM Academy organize their storage closet. (October 2022)
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Boxes of Love
Simplicity Serves served with Simple Wellness and West Blvd. Ministries to create healthy food boxes and collect school supplies to support Foster Village. (April 2020)
Contact Simplicity Serves
Ready To Serve: Volunteers are needed to offer their time and organizational skills to those in need.
Looking For Organizational Support: We offer complimentary organizational services to those in need.
Able To Provide Financial Support: Financial gifts are needed to support, maintain, and organize homes and lives in Charlotte. Your donation will help cover the cost of professional help and organizing supplies.
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Men's Shelter
Our Simplicity Serves’ volunteers helped organize donated toiletries at the Men’s Shelter of Charlotte to help their nonprofit run more efficiently. (January 2020)
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Carolina Breast Friends
Simplicity Serves helped Carolina Breast Friends organized the upstairs rooms in the Pine house and transformed the basement. (December 2019)
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Congregation Kids Toy Drive
Simplicity Serves volunteers helped organize hundreds of toys with Congregation for Kids. The event gives social workers a chance to shop for the holiday season. (November 2021)
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READ a Book GIVE a Book
Our annual READ a book GIVE a book event provided 5,700 books to Windsor Park Elementary School. each child was able to take home a full bag of books. (May 2019)
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Tucker Leighton Avram (TLA) Tennis
Simplicity Serves’ team helped Pender Murphy, founder of TLA and Queens College tennis coach organize donations from East Mecklenburg High School. (September 2019)
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The Learning Collaborative (TLC)
Simplicity Serves helped The Learning Collaborative organize their school supplies for the upcoming school year. (May and July 2019)
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West Charlotte High School Decision Day
Simplicity Serves partnered with West Blvd Ministry and The Harrell Family to make West Charlotte’s Decision Day one of encouragement and future success! (April 2022)
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Roof Above
Simplicity Serves very own Sarah Prewitt assisted Roof Above with how to organize their space. (May 2022)
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Thank you Charlotte Community
Thanks to the Charlotte Community, 6,500 books were donate to Windsor Park Elementary School for Simplicity’s Book Drive READ a Book GIVE a Book. (May 2018)
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Simplicity Serves Coat Drive
Simplicity Serves was honored to partner with West Blvd Ministry to help set up for their annal coat drive. (November 2019)
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Charlotte Lab School
Simplicity Serves’ volunteers organize classrooms and ‘maker spaces’ at Charlotte Lab School. (September 2018)
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Trinity Episcopal School
Simplicity Serves helped create new systems in the teacher workroom and organized the Kindergarten Resource room at Trinity Episcopal School. (July 2023)
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Annual Book Drive for School
Simplicity serves hosted their annual book drive which collected 1000 books to fill the classrooms at Windsor Park Elementary School. (May 2022)
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The Lighthouse
Simplicity Serves transformed a room at Winsor Park Elementary to become a resource center for families. It is officially called the Lighthouse. (September 2021)