Tyler Mulligan is a School of Government faculty member. This post is part of a series that highlights approaches described in a School of Government web guide on asset-building strategies for individuals and communities on the economic margin. Market-based economies are characterized by boom and bu … Read more

Kendra Cotton is a project director with the Community-Campus Partnership. The Community-Campus Partnership was recently made aware of an opportunity that may be of interest to local agencies or community-based organizations working on public-health related issues.  The Department of Health Behavior … Read more

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. Annually, the North Carolina Department of Commerce analyzes the economic well-being of the state’s 100 counties and assigns each to a designation. The 40 most economically distressed … Read more

With politicians and the media focusing so much attention on the gap between the rich and the poor, some community leaders are asking what they can do to assist communities and households on the economic margin. One approach that deserves serious examination is known as “asset-based development.” Th … Read more

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. Since 2009, UNC has been supporting leaders in Caswell County on a variety of community and economic development projects. Through that work, public school teachers have emerged as a … Read more

Rick Morse is a School of Government faculty member. Continuing state budget problems, combined with shrinking tax bases and the reduction in federal aid work together to put local governments in long-term fiscal crisis. The responses of local governments to this fiscal crunch have significant conse … Read more

Scott Sherrill is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration. He is currently working as a Community-Campus Partnership Intern. At the first reporting out session of the Chapel Hill 2020 theme groups, UNC School of Government faculty member Margaret Hende … Read more

Marvin Hoffman is a faculty member at Appalachian State University. Two years ago, Appalachian State University (ASU) joined a partnership with the Community-Campus Partnership (CCP) at UNC Chapel Hill to support small towns in North Carolina. The North Carolina Rural Center provided grant funding f … Read more

Kara Millonzi is a School of Government faculty member. Blight City is looking to revitalize a portion of its downtown. Over the past ten years the area has fallen into disarray and contains many abandoned, dilapidated buildings. Working with a couple of local developers, the city has developed plan … Read more

In July of this year, Duke Energy filed a request with the North Carolina Utilities Commission to increase electricity rates in the state by 15%. It probably came as no surprise to local governments that run their own utilities that that this “request” elicited public outcry across the state. Commen … Read more