A company is only as strong as the environment that surrounds them, and Wakefield Development Company believes in giving back to the regions that have benefited their communities’ residents. In practicing corporate citizen acts, Wakefield Development Company has achieved several philanthropic milestones by collecting items for clothing and food drives, sponsoring golf tournaments, donating resources for less fortunate families during the holidays and teaming with such local and national not-for-profit agencies like the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the V. Foundation, Food Bank of North Carolina and Carolinas’ Chapter of the ALS Association to raise funds for research.

Specifically, Wakefield Development Company has:

- Sponsored the Leukemia and Lymphoma Societies’ show home in Wakefield Plantation to raise money for the organizations

- Sponsored the annual Catfish Classic golf tournament at Wakefield Plantation to help raise money for the Carolinas’ Chapter of the ALS Association

- Sponsored less fortunate families during the holiday season

- Partnered with 1st American Builders to raise money for cancer research with the V. Foundation’s charity home fundraiser

- Hosted the Communities in Schools fundraising golf tournament at Eagle Ridge

- Housed drop-off stations at their communities for annual drives, including Coats for Children and the Food Bank of North Carolina

- Donated money to local organizations such as the Fraternal Order of Police

- Bedford at Falls River is the first community in the nation to start a community-sponsored agriculture partnership to help provide economic stability to a struggling regional farming industry