Category: CED News & Miscellaneous
Prostate Cancer Ambassadors of Caswell County — Project Update
Anissa Vines is a professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a CCP small grant recipient working in Caswell County. Upon receiving the grant award, the Carolina Community Network (CCN) has been working diligently to prepare for the implementation of Prostate Cancer Ambassadors … Read more
Student Corner: Caswell County Agricultural Inventory
John Killeen is a recent graduate of the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning and an intern working in Caswell County. Beginning in June, CCP partnered with the Caswell Cooperative Extension Center to conduct an agricultural inventory of Caswell County (click on image for .pdf of full report … Read more
ACES project update — Caswell County
Suzanne Gulledge is a faculty member in the UNC School of Education and a CCP small grant recipient working in Caswell County. The CCP grant to support the Carolina ACES (Academic Curriculum Enrichment Students) project is taking root and branching out to include more participants on both the univer … Read more
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