Fredrick Davis is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning. He is currently working with North Carolina’s Northeast Commission in Edenton as part of the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps program. A major development is in the works for the town … Read more

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. The Community-Campus Partnership (CCP) at UNC-Chapel Hill, a campus-wide initiative to forge effective partnerships with economically distressed communities in North Carolina, has awa … Read more

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. I’m pleased to report more good news from Pamlico County! … Read more

Jonathan Morgan is a School of Government faculty member. One of the most fundamental theories of economic development is the idea that certain industry sectors will have a greater economic impact on a community or region because they sell goods and services outside the local economy thereby bringin … Read more

Danielle Parker is a PhD student in the School of Education and CCP Intern working in Lenior County Members of the Kinston Promise Neighborhood Program haven’t lost momentum since the submission of their  Promise Neighborhoods application to the US Department of Education. Groups that applied for th … Read more

Ben Houck is a graduate of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP intern working in Lenoir County. Career maps available here: Lenoir County Health Care Career Maps In North Carolina, employment growth in the health care sector has helped to buffer losses in manufactu … Read more

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. Even though the Kinston Promise Neighborhood group has already successfully submitted its grant application to the Department of Education for a one-year p … Read more

Peter Balvanz is a recent graduate from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the UNC Gilling’s School of Global Public Health. Earlier this month three youth from Caswell County were partnered with senior citizens to assess the walkability of Yanceyville, the county seat. The ne … 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). As described in an earlier post, the Land-of-Sky Region … Read more

Kendra Jensen is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is currently working with the Kerr-Tar Council of Governments through the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps (CERC). Of the $98,000,000 available for the Sustainable Communities Regional … Read more