The Good Neighbor Initiative — a partnership between the University, the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and several community organizations — is working to strengthen the connections between Carolina students and long-time residents to help Tar Heels thrive in off-campus housing.
Sophomore Ashlyn Clark has been volunteering for the Orange County Health Department assessing the safety of drinking water and assisting with business outreach as part of the department’s response to COVID-19.
UNC-Chapel Hill and Town of Chapel Hill leaders announce a new university partnership with startup co-working pioneer BioLabs, downtown beautification initiatives, next steps for an innovation hub space, and plans for a downtown innovation district.
When her classes at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy were moved to remote learning and staying inside became her new norm, she started to feel disconnected to the rest of the world. To reconnect, she wanted to find a way to help people feeling the same way.
Carolina and Chapel Hill are working together to prevent vehicle crashes that harm pedestrians.
As Chapel Hill celebrates its 200th anniversary, communication professor Della Pollock wants to make sure that some of the town’s oldest, and historically black, neighborhoods aren’t forgotten. “The people who have lived here the longest here are often the least recognized,” Pollock said. “The story of Chapel Hill as a University town often excludes those Northside and Pine Knolls families whose roots are as many as eight generations deep and still growing.”
Formed as a partnership with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Orange County and the Town of Chapel Hill, Launch has been serving the local community by providing area startups with a majority of the resources needed to grow their businesses. The Becker Family provided initial funding for the program in memory of their daughter Cara Gwen Becker.
As a Town Council intern, rising junior Daniel Bowen is making his adopted hometown of Chapel Hill a better place to live. Working alongside elected officials and staff at town hall, the public policy and statistics and analytics major is helping to make Chapel Hill a more sustainable home for future generations.
Morehead-Cain Scholar, Antonio McBroom ’08, began working for Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Shop when he arrived in Chapel Hill for his freshman year of college. After working for the company all four years, McBroom decided he wanted to make his mark as a young entrepreneur. Two days prior to his undergraduate graduation he bought his first franchise, the Chapel Hill Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Shop.
Called the Housing Opportunity Finder, the app will act as a resource for more than 3,000 low-income families from Durham and Orange counties by compiling affordable, safe housing listings in “opportunity neighborhoods.”