NC Rural Center

BUILDING RURAL FUTURES: News and opportunities for rural North Carolina

🔸SEA Change is accepting applications for its free 16-week social enterprise accelerator cohort in North Carolina through July 6: https://ow.ly/icaQ50Z8e6u

🔸NC State University's Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research has announced a three-year initiative to support the state's rural workforce and strengthen leadership capability and strategic planning at rural community colleges: https://ow.ly/Cw0G50Z8e6t

🔸Harnett Regional Jetport has received a $500,000 Golden LEAF Foundation grant for an expansion project expected to support millions of dollars in private investment and create 10 new jobs: https://ow.ly/B9Tf50Z8e6w

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RURAL EDUCATION NEWS: Recent education stories for rural North Carolina

🔹The Robesonian writes about the work being done ahead of the Robeson Career and Technical Education Center's anticipated August opening: www.robesonian.com/news/341033/from-renderings-to-reality-robeson-ctec-takes-shape-ahead-of-opening-in-august

🔹Education NC looks at how the state's 58 Small Business Centers help entrepreneurs start and run new businesses, especially in rural areas: www.ednc.org/inside-north-carolinas-small-business-centers-and-their-role-as-economic-development-engines

Inside North Carolina’s Small Business Centers and their role as ‘economic development engines’ Located at North Carolina's 58 community colleges, Small Business Centers serve as economic development engines for their community.

Dr. Heather Kilbourne, the senior director of our Faith in Rural Communities program, recently gave the keynote at the Southwestern Commission Area Agency on Aging's annual spring conference.

The event, themed "Anchored in Faith, Growing in Action," brought over 100 Western North Carolina individuals together from churches, faith-based organizations, nonprofits, and other community partners.