Check out the recent media mention of sustainability-related programs, practices, and people at UNC:
Students Offer Microloans to Help Campus Neighbors Start Small Businesses
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In the last four years, about a dozen student groups have begun offering loans to local residents who want to start businesses but are unlikely to qualify for traditional bank loans… Few volunteers who run microloan programs are studying business. A chance to develop teaching and documentary-filmmaking skills drew Alexis Seccombe, a graduate student in comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to the campus's Community Empowerment Fund. Read more »
Poverty Tour of NC Begins in Beaufort County
The Associated Press
A two-day tour of poverty-stricken areas in northeastern North Carolina is getting underway with its first stop in Beaufort County. ...The UNC Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, North Carolina NAACP, and the N.C. Justice Center are sponsoring the tour. The tour will go to other parts of the state later this year, examining both rural counties and inner city neighborhoods. Read more »
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