Category: CED News & Miscellaneous
Prostate Cancer Ambassadors for Caswell County-
Anissa Vines is a professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a CCP small grant recipient working in Caswell County The Prostate Cancer Ambassadors for Caswell County Project is excited to welcome its fifteen (15) Ambassadors who are African American men and women representing v … Read more
Student Corner: Pamlico Community College Receives $75,000 for Entrepreneurship Education
Suzanne Julian is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is currently working with the STEP leadership team in Pamlico County as part of the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps program. Pamlico Community College (PCC) is one of 13 recipients of … Read more
CCP Awards a Grant of $20,000 for Economic Development Effort in Kinston
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. CCP has awarded a $20,000 grant to Thomas Stith, program director for economic development for the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill in support of … Read more
Student Corner: Dr. Johnson’s “Six Disruptive Trends: What Census 2010 Will Reveal.”
Matt Dudek is a graduate student in the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning, the School of Government, and a CERC intern working with the Cape Fear Council of Governments. Last Tuesday, Kenan–Flagler professor, James H. Johnson, Jr. lectured at the School of Government on the “Six Disruptiv … Read more
Fostering Resilient Places: Sources of Economic Strength in Nonmetropolitan North Carolina – Project Update
Emil Malizia is a professor and chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill and CCP small-grant recipient working in Lenoir County. “Fostering Resilient Places: Sources of Economic Strength in Nonmetropolitan North Carolina” is a CCP small-grant funded project that aims … Read more
Student Corner: Pamlico County Awarded $500,000 in CDGB Funding
Suzanne Julian is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is currently working with the STEP leadership team in Pamlico County as part of the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps program. As some of you may be aware, this past Tuesday Governor Pe … Read more
Recommended Book: Working Across Boundaries
Rick Morse is a School of Government faculty member. His work focuses on collaborative governance and public leadership. Community economic development is a classic example of a “transboundary” issue. There is no single authority that, acting alone, can effectively address community and economic dev … Read more
Selling Saving – A Hope Accounts Update
Salli Benedict is the HOPE Projects Director at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and a CCP small grant recipient working in Lenoir County. The UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity recently published a study called “Racial Wealth Disparity in North Carolina”. Althoug … Read more
Carolina ACES Project Update – Caswell County
Suzanne Gulledge is a professor in the UNC School of Education and a CCP small grant recipient working in Caswell County. The first semester of the CCP grant funded Carolina ACES (Academic Curriculum Enrichment Students) project wrapped in December. The initiative that brought Carolina students to N … Read more
Lift Off Lenoir! Reception
Kendra Cotton is a project director with the Community-Campus Partnership. The CCP grant-funded project “Lift Off, Lenoir! A Partnership between Lenoir County Public Schools and Morehead Planetarium and Science Center” will officially launch during a reception scheduled to be held on Monday, January … Read more