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

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

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

Anissa Vines is a professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a CCP small grant recipient working in Caswell County. Prostate Cancer Ambassadors for Caswell County, a project supported by the CCP small grants program, is moving forward with its effort to build local community ca … Read more

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. CCP has awarded a $8,167 grant to Elysa Corin, science education specialist at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. The grant will support “Lift Off, Lenoir! A Partnership b … Read more

Dr. Tom Keyserling is a faculty member in the UNC School of Medicine and principal investigator for the Heart Healthy Lenoir project at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. The Heart Healthy Lenoir Project is a five-year, NIH-funded project to reduce heart disease risk among r … Read more

Aaron Nousaine is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning. He is currently working with the Land-of-Sky Regional Council in Asheville through the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps (CERC). While the majority of my previous posts have focused on … Read more

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. CCP has awarded a $7,695 grant to Dr. Alice Ammerman, director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and Marian Sa … Read more

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. CCP has awarded a $20,000 grant to Dr. Emil Malizia, chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill to support his project titled “Fostering Resilient Places … Read more

Andrew Guinn is a graduate student in the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP intern in Lenoir and Caswell Counties. A lot has happened in the Kinston Promise Neighborhood since the CED Blog last checked in with them in August.  Notably, while the Kinston group did not receive fed … Read more