What We Do

ULT Provides Free laundry services and supplies for those in need.

Our mission is to serve families in North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham region by providing them with free laundry services and laundry supplies, meeting them in spaces that work for them.

Rapid Direct Laundry-Service Program: ULT works with local community partners, including the “HEART” program, to receive and respond to individual emergency laundry requests. We serve our community members within a 48-hour period, and allow them the opportunity to alleviate their urgent laundry needs. We choose wash locations that are convienent for those we serve, and sensitive to their needs.

Monthly Free Community Laundry Events: Uplift chooses a local laundromat to host free laundry events every month. Community members are encouraged to come out and receive direct laundry assistance and free laundry supplies. Uplift also serves as a local connection point at our Free Laundry events, providing community members with critical information that connects them food banks, shelters, and economic workforce development programs.

We partner with local non-profits, health systems, and interfaith communities, and we provide our community with tools to maximize our services, including hygiene support items, laundry detergent, bedding, and toiletry items.

Three people taking a selfie inside a laundromat with washing machines in the background. The person on the right is wearing an orange T-shirt with the logo ULT and text, the woman in the middle has curly, red hair, and the man on the left is wearing a light-colored hoodie.
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Two men smiling and taking a selfie outdoors on a sunny day. One man has a beard, dark skin, and is wearing a wide-brimmed hat and an orange shirt. The other man is wearing a baseball cap and a gray shirt. There are buildings and a blue canopy tent in the background.
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***We are in our start-up phase, and we are building the financial foundation that is needed to purchase and outfit our own laundry trucks***

Advocacy and Awareness

One of ULT’s most important community-based efforts is to provide the public with awareness of the impact of chronic laundry poverty and laundry insecurity.

Laundry Poverty represents the inability of a person or family to provide themselves with the tools and financial support needed to wash their clothes consistently.

When a person experiences laundry poverty for a sustained period of time, they endure negative impacts on their social-emotional well-being, physical health, and long-term ability to grow, thrive, and experience life in a dignified fashion.

Recent Events:

Three men standing indoors against a wall, with a clock and electrical panels in the background. The two men on the left and right are wearing orange T-shirts with 'ULT' and 'Uplift Laundry Truck' printed on them. The man in the middle is wearing a black T-shirt and making a peace sign with his fingers.

ULT’s Global Laundry Initiative

The Uplift Laundry Truck (ULT) Global Laundry Initiative serves as a catalytic data-gathering and economic development mechanism designed to facilitate the formal transition of targeted regions from "3rd-World" status to "Emerging Economy" status. By leveraging data-driven programming to mitigate laundry insecurity and hygiene poverty, the initiative establishes the foundational infrastructure and socioeconomic resilience necessary for sustainable macroeconomic elevation.

Launch Timeline: 2026-2027

  • We provide emerging economies in Southeast Asia and West Africa with tools to combat laundry insecurity, based on data gathered by our global team.

  • We believe in practical approaches to advocacy and research that give a clear picture of how to reduce laundry insecurity in our targeted communities

  • We work with emerging economies, where access to laundry security can function as a lever for foundational structural economic growth