Help Your Community, Join ECA!
Today more than ever we need to work together and support our ever-growing community. Cabarrus County Extension and Community Association (ECA) is an organization that works with Cooperative Extension-Cabarrus County to service the Cabarrus County Community. ECA focuses on collaborating with Cooperative Extension to provide community service and extend extension education in health, wellness, and family and consumer science to Cabarrus County. ECA members can provide for the community with volunteerism.
By joining Cabarrus County ECA you able to participate in community service, learn important skills through extension and extend that to the community, and create lifelong friendships with other members.
Check out some of Cabarrus County’s different ECA Clubs below!
For more information on membership or organizing a new club in your community contact: Suzanne Doad, Extension Agent and ECA liaison at North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
715 Cabarrus Ave West, Concord NC 28025
704-920-3310
Current ECA Member Resources
2025 ECA Yearbook Appendix (includes membership form, payment request form, leadership candidate application form, and scholarship application form)
Tarheel Homemakers E-News Take a look and be inspired by what other ECA Clubs are doing throughout our state!
ECA Scholarships
Apply for The Cabarrus County ECA Scholarship and The Outen Family Scholarship (Google Form)
Apply for the NCECA Scholarship
Guidelines for the NCECA Scholarship
Club Meeting Times and Locations
Visitors and perspective members are always welcome.
Call the club president listed below in your area(s) for directions, program details and to plan a visit.
Morning Clubs
Rimer: Meets 1st Wednesday of each month, 10am at Camp TN Spencer Park, 3155 Foxford Rd, Concord NC 28025. For more information call Pat Wickliff at 704-436-8300 or email her at new1pgw@ctc.net
Country Neighbors: Meets 2nd Wednesday of each month, 9:30am at the Cabarrus County Senior Center, 331 Corban Ave SE, concord Nc 28025. For more information call Barbara Looney at 704-786-0496 or email her at blooneysews@hotmail.com
Bethel/Midland: meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 10:00 am at Black-Phillips American legion Bldg., Bethel Church rd., Midland. Call Linda Black at 704-888-6435 or email elindablack@gmail.com
Quilting Mother’s - Special Interest: Meets on Fridays at NC Cooperative Extension-Cabarrus County Center, 715 Cabarrus Ave- West, Concord NC 28025. Call Nancy Carlson at 704-784-2300 or email headstartlady@yahoo.com
Lunchtime Club
Artistic Adventurers: meets 3rd Tuesday of each month, 1:00pm at NC Cooperative Extension- Cabarrus County Center, 715 Cabarrus Ave-West, Concord 28027. Call Darnell Hodge at 704-918-4423 or darn333@windstream.net
Afternoon Club
Coldwater: meets 2nd Thursday of each month, 9:30 at the Cabarrus Senior Center, 331 Corban Ave- SE, Concord 28025. Call Carolyn Wright at 704-363-2118 or email gabbywright@aol.com
Evening Clubs
Flowe Store/Allen: Meets 2nd Thursday of each month at 6:30pm at Becky Barbee’s home, 9605 Bethel Church Rd, Midland, NC 28107. For more information call Becky Barbee at 704- 721-5929 or email blm.barbee13@gmail.com
Variable Schedule
Educational Travelers: Meets on a variable schedule with 1 day travel trips throughout the year. For more information contact Judy McClendon at 704-938-3279 or email her at jhmcclendon@hotmail.com or contact Barbara Bost at 704-436-6226 or email her at barbarabost@ctc.net
