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.

  • Simplicity Serves at Sharon Elementary

    PTA Closet at Sharon Elementary

    Our Simplicity Serves’ volunteers helped organize the PTA closet at Sharon Elementary. (October 2024)

  • Families Forward and Simplicity Services

    Families Forward

    Fourteen volunteers with Simplicity Serves organized six storage rooms in two days at Families Forward.

  • Simplicity Serves Organizes Metro Lab

    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)

  • Charlotte Rescue Mission

    Charlotte Rescue Mission

    Simplicity Serves volunteers organized the new Gift in Kind building at the Charlotte Rescue Mission. (March 2024)

  • Sharon Road Elementary Simplicity Serves Volunteers

    Sharon Road Elementary

    Volunteers with Simplicity Serves organized the teacher workroom at Sharon Road Elementary. (October 2024)

  • Simplicity Organizers and Sanctis Family

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves helps Renaissance West STEAM Academy

    Renaissance West STEAM Academy

    Simplicity Serves volunteers helped Renaissance West STEAM Academy organize their storage closet. (October 2022)

  • Healthy Food Boxes

    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.

  • Simplicity Serves Volunteers at Men's Shelter

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves at Carolina Breast Center

    Carolina Breast Friends

    Simplicity Serves helped Carolina Breast Friends organized the upstairs rooms in the Pine house and transformed the basement. (December 2019)

  • Simplicity Serves Toy Drive

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves Book event at Windsor Park Elementary in Charlotte

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves helps Pender Murphy Founder of Tucker Leighton Avram Tennis

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves helps TLC organize school supplies

    The Learning Collaborative (TLC)

    Simplicity Serves helped The Learning Collaborative organize their school supplies for the upcoming school year. (May and July 2019)

  • Simplicity Serves at West Charlotte High School

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves helps Roof Above

    Roof Above

    Simplicity Serves very own Sarah Prewitt assisted Roof Above with how to organize their space. (May 2022)

  • Simplicity Serves Charlotte Community donate books

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves and West Blvd Ministry Coat Drive

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves organizes classrooms at Charlotte Lab School

    Charlotte Lab School

    Simplicity Serves’ volunteers organize classrooms and ‘maker spaces’ at Charlotte Lab School. (September 2018)

  • Simplicity Serves helping teachers

    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)

  • Windsor Park Charlotte Book Drive

    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)

  • Simplicity Serves at Windsor Park

    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)