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. Here in the Northeastern region of North Carolin … Read more

Ben Houck is a graduate of the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP Intern working in Lenoir County. What do you think about when you hear the phrase “climbing the corporate ladder”? Is it moving from a mail room to a corner office or from sales floor to district manager? The conce … Read more

Jonathan Morgan is a School of Government faculty member. The latest national employment numbers for June 2010 show some modest private sector job creation despite a decline overall in total nonfarm employment.  The unemployment rate dropped a bit to 9.5 percent from 9.7 percent in May.  The U.S. ec … Read more

Jonathan Morgan is a School of Government faculty member. The School of Government recently assisted with devising a strategy for developing the defense and homeland security (D&HS) economy in the 11-county Fort Bragg region.   The BRAC Regional Task Force will use the analysis and recommendatio … Read more

Rick Morse is a School of Government faculty member. To effectively address today’s public problems there is an increasing need to work through partnerships across multiple boundaries (organizational, jurisdictional, sectoral).  “Collaborative governance” has come to be the term of art for this idea … Read more

Jonathan Morgan is a School of Government faculty member. The latest national employment numbers suggest that the job market is beginning to improve.  However, the unemployment rate for the U.S. remains unchanged at 9.7 percent and the number of under-employed persons continues to rise.  Most expert … Read more

Lisa Stifler is a Research Associate with the Community & Economic Development Program. Over the past decade or two, there has been increasing attention and interest in growing community wealth from within.  Activities have focused on leadership development, entrepreneurship and growing business … Read more

Joy Jackson is a Masters Student of Public Administration and a graduate student assistant working with the Community-Campus Partnership Prior to coming to UNC, I worked for a community development financial intermediary in New York City that provided financial and technical assistance to local comm … Read more

Lisa Stifler is a Research Associate with the Community and Economic Development Program. Many communities in rural North Carolina and rural communities throughout the country have been facing a unique paradox in recent years – on the one hand, many areas have seen an increase in population due to r … Read more

Lisa Stifler is a Research Associate with the Community & Economic Development Program. Workforce development is a relatively recent term and concept that has developed over the past two decades or so to describe a wide range of activities and policies related to learning for work.  Typically th … Read more