Rug & Home Cares

We strongly believe in giving back to the communities that have given us so much as we’ve grown. Through our Rug & Home Foundation, Rug & Home has given aid and support to hundreds of individuals and groups over the past quarter century.

Rug & Home supports these organizations both monetarily and with the time, care and love of our founders and employees through volunteer work. We are committed to supporting those in need both here and abroad, and devote special attention to our stores’ surrounding communities – the Greater Charlotte Area, Asheville, NC and Gaffney, SC.

Our greatest hope is to do the most good we can while inspiring others around the world to do likewise. Here are just a few of the key philanthropic projects that Rug & Home has either assisted or founded.

City of Gaffney Police Department

February 13, 2015

We were so proud to be able to provide the City of Gaffney Police Department with the money for the three vests they desperately needed to ensure the protection of their officers.

Asheville Parks and Recreation

February 13, 2015

When the Asheville Parks & Recreation was looking for support for their little league team, they approached Rug & Home and we were more than happy to help to ensure that this confidence and team-building program continues.

Vision Express

February 13, 2015

While they attribute their success to hard work in the “Land of Opportunity,” the Rug & Home founders have not forgotten their roots in India – each year, they organize a humanitarian trip to India for a 3-day health clinic in remote villages in the rug-weaving region of eastern Uttar Pradesh where there is little to no access to healthcare. Through these health clinics, they realized that the population most neglected in terms of health is women, and the number one ailment facing many of these underprivileged women is cataracts.

Dadawas Initiative (Society for Excellence in Education)

February 13, 2015

The Dadawas Initiative is a rural poverty eradication project by the Society for Excellence in Education. The Dadawas Institute was started by Sagar Jain, a former professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dadawas’ goal is to conquer poverty through education for children living in the rural village of Dadawas in the state of Haryana in India. By providing underprivileged youth with basic health and sanitation services and education, along with a school that fosters learning and enrollment in a rural community where education is secondary to basic needs like food and shelter, Dadawas is hoping to help the poor reach middle class, within the span of one generation.

Flat Rock Playhouse

February 13, 2015

Rug & Home has proudly sponsored both the 2012 and 2013 seasons of the Music on the Rock series at the Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theater of NC. We also decorated the Playhouse Downtown’s lobby with Rug & Home rugs and furnishings. We are very proud to be associated with this quality performing arts venue and to support the hard work they put in to bringing arts and entertainment to the Carolinas.

Blue Ridge Literacy Council

February 13, 2015

Rug & Home is a proud supporter of the Blue Ridge Literacy Council whose mission it is “to provide adults in Henderson County the English communication and literacy skills they need to reach their full potential as individuals, parents, workers and citizens.”

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