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Opioid Response Project Team Focus: Onslow County
Learning and networking at forums through the Opioid Response Project has been extremely valuable to the learning and planning process.
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Impacts of Safety Nets for Families on Health Outcomes
When we look at moving the needle toward health outcomes, a natural place to address future outcomes is by addressing the need for investment in children’s health.
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ncIMPACT Town Hall: Constructing North Carolina’s Creative Placemaking Economy
North Carolina’s creative industries are responsible for more than 417,000 jobs, representing 7 percent of the state’s workforce.
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Opioid Response Project Team Focus: Cumberland County
The C-FORT team is working hard to become the creative and recovery-ready community they see as necessary to tackle the opioid epidemic.
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Broadband’s Impact on Economic Development: A Lack of Access to Social Capital
North Carolina residents with no or low access to quality broadband are missing out on important economic benefits of cultivating social capital through connections.
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Opioid Response Project Team Focus: Wilkes County
The ability to bring different community leaders together to discuss problems and solutions is invaluable.
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Shortage of Volunteer Firefighters
Did you know… Out of the 1,087 registered fire departments in North Carolina, more than 90% are volunteer or mostly volunteer departments?
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Reentry from Incarceration to Workforce
Did you know… As many as 60% of North Carolinians with a criminal record remain unemployed within one year of being released?
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NC Strategic Economic Development Plan Post-Session Survey
Complete Post-Session Survey for Your Region by Nov. 15 to Inform the NC Strategic Economic Development Plan.
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Renewable Energy in Rural Communities
…or counties looking to bring renewable energy to their community will need to consider a variety of issues. First, the benefits of bringing renewable energy to your community, are that…
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