Durham, North Carolina has long had one of the nation’s stronger Black business sectors. Now, the city is teaming with a small business development center at a historically Black college to keep it that way.
Good leadership is situational. Sometimes consensus is called for, but what if the institution’s consensus is governed by a non-representative group of overseers? Sometimes, you may just have to step out in front and risk something.
When is corporate activism less than fully useful? When it layers programmatic busywork over systems change, perhaps?
Days before Hurricane Florence hit the Carolinas, one nonprofit group had already set up major kitchen operations in two cities to feed those working or sheltering in harm’s way.
As in many communities, declining housing affordability in Wake County, North Carolina is worsening race and class divides. The county’s response, however, largely ignores the income and wealth dynamics that drive the widening gap.
On August 27th, a three-judge federal panel ruled that the current congressional district map for North Carolina was unconstitutionally drawn to favor Republicans over Democrats. It may need to be redrawn before the November elections.
Denver and Asheville launched community land trusts to preserve resident housing in neighborhoods with high risk of displacement. However, such efforts are often under-resourced, and this is no exception.
The decision to invest in real estate, collective impact, and collaboration angers the PTAs in this progressive college town in North Carolina.
While it would be wise to keep our expectations of impact investing’s ability to improve social outcomes in check, some forms of socially responsible investment are virtually cost-free.
Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, North Carolina moves to re-segregate its schools.
