Our Work
Our Work
Health and Community Wellbeing
The County Health Rankings model indicates that medical care influences 20 percent of health outcomes, while social determinants of health (determinants) influence 80 percent of health outcomes. These determinants are closely integrated with one another and mutually influence factors related to medical care, shaping…
Workforce Education
Talent drives economic success in the 21st century like no other time in the state’s history. Thus, state and local policymakers embrace talent or workforce development as an important component of economic development strategy. Their approaches to talent and workforce development are expanding to meet the new econom…
Economy
North Carolina seeks to build and sustain vibrant, healthy, resilient, and connected communities that produce, attract, and retain firms, workers, and entrepreneurs. Place-based assets are the building blocks of economic development and include the physical infrastructure necessary to expand broadband access, enhance…
Demographics
What sets the ncIMPACT Initiative apart is its ability to bring the right data to bear on a policy problem. Our team provides data “snapshots” intended to answer questions, highlight problems, and start discussions among North Carolinians who want to learn more about their state. Resources Mitigating the Risk for Fal…
Environment
North Carolina boasts unique environmental resources from the mountains to the coast and places in between. These resources provide benefits such as drinking water, agriculture, recreation, and economic opportunities. They also require stewardship, infrastructure, and protection and local governments and agencies mus…
Criminal Justice
The ncIMPACT Initiative collaborates with the School’s Criminal Justice Innovation Lab, which seeks to promote a fair and effective criminal justice system, public safety, and economic prosperity. It works by engaging a broad range of stakeholders to examine the criminal justice system through an evidence-based persp…
Criminal Justice
The ncIMPACT Initiative collaborates with the School’s Criminal Justice Innovation Lab, which seeks to promote a fair and effective criminal justice system, public safety, and economic prosperity. It works by engaging a broad range of stakeholders to examine the criminal justice system through an evidence-based perspective and promoting the use of a rigorous evidence-based approach to criminal justice policy.
Demographics
What sets the ncIMPACT Initiative apart is its ability to bring the right data to bear on a policy problem. Our team provides data “snapshots” intended to answer questions, highlight problems, and start discussions among North Carolinians who want to learn more about their state.
Economy
The ncIMPACT Initiative provides data and analysis to assist local and state policymakers in making decisions intended to strengthen the state’s economy.
Environment
North Carolina boasts unique environmental resources from the mountains to the coast and places in between. These resources provide benefits such as drinking water, agriculture, recreation, and economic opportunities. They also require stewardship, infrastructure, and protection and local governments and agencies must finance those services in collaboration with the state.
Health and Community Wellbeing
The County Health Rankings model indicates that medical care influences 20 percent of health outcomes, while social determinants of health influence 80 percent of health outcomes. These determinants are closely integrated and shape health outcomes in a complex way. The top drivers of health outcomes in this model are poverty, racism, food insecurity, housing insecurity, and adverse childhood experiences. The ncIMPACT Initiative shares its health and community wellbeing projects in an effort to increase employment, reduce poverty, and improve child and family wellbeing.
Workforce Education
The ncIMPACT Initiative advises communities and state agencies on strategies for building a talent pipeline – including Pre-Kindergarten, primary and secondary education, college, and credentials that strengthen local and regional workforces.