Category: CED News & Miscellaneous
Kinston and Lenoir County win grant for energy efficient streetlights
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. Last summer Adam Parker, a CCP graduate student intern, worked with the City of Kinston to design a streetlight replacement plan and applied for Federal Recovery Act funding to financ … Read more
HOPE Accounts for Women – Lenoir County
Salli Benedict is the HOPE Projects Director at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. The highly innovative HOPE Accounts for Women project combines health promotion and weight loss with economic empowerment. We are currently recruiting and training women to be leaders for this … Read more
Community-Campus Partnership Provides $18,000 Grant for Prostate Cancer Ambassadors of Caswell County Project
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. The Community-Campus Partnership (CCP) has awarded a $18,000 grant to the Carolina Community Network to Reduce Health Disparities in support of the Prostate Cancer Ambassadors of Casw … Read more
Student Corner: Economic Base Theory & Red Springs: Does it work?
Lindsay Moriarty is a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill pursuing dual masters’ degrees in Health Behavior and Health Education and City and Regional Planning. She is currently working with the Lumber River Council of Government through the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps (CERC). Recently i … Read more
Student Corner: Agricultural Inventory Suggests Economic Opportunity for Caswell County
John Killeen is a recent graduate of UNC’s Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP intern working in Caswell County. Since June of this year, the author has been conducting an agricultural inventory of Caswell County. The project is designed as a collection of maps that illustrate the sta … Read more
Student Corner: Yancey House Restaurant Profiled on North Carolina Now
Joy Jackson is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration and a CCP intern working in Caswell and Lenoir Counties. On September 13, 2010, Yancey House restaurant, located in Caswell County, was featured on the UNC-TV program North Carolina Now. The report … Read more
Community-Campus Partnership Provides $20,000 Grant for Education Program in Caswell County
Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. The Community-Campus Partnership (CCP) has awarded a $20,000 grant to School of Education Professor Suzanne Gulledge and the Carolina ACES (Academic Curriculum Enrichment Students) pr … Read more
Student Corner: The Military Growth Task Force and Regional Opportunities
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. When the population of North Carolina’s Eastern Region inc … Read more
Student Corner: First Fridays in Yanceyville: Glancing Back and Looking Ahead
Andrew Guinn is a graduate student in the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP intern working in Caswell and Lenoir Counties. With Labor Day well past and the summer coming to an end, it’s worthwhile to look back on one of Caswell County’s CCP-supported projects: the initiation of … Read more
UNC assists Lenoir County with business plan to launch STEM East (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
Thomas Stith is program director for economic development for the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC. Lenoir County, in Eastern North Carolina, benefits from a diverse population and a unique mix of assets and economic incentives that are serving to attract a variety of moder … Read more