With two grants totaling $62,000, the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will work with three communities close to campus to help solve environmental and social issues. The Campus Y received $52,000 from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund and $10,000 from Strowd Roses Inc. to pull together and strengthen various student- and community-led projects in the Abbey Court, Northside and Rogers Road neighborhoods.
The organizations partnering with the Campus Y in this project include the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association / Coalition to End Environmental Racism in Rogers Road (led by Rev. Robert Campbell), the Human Rights Center in Abbey Court (led by Judith Blau, professor of sociology), and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History (led by Della Pollock, professor of communication studies). Student-led groups from the University include: Linking Immigrants to New Communities (LINC); Project Literacy; Technology Without Borders (TWB); Students Working for Environmental Action and Transformation (SWEAT); United with the North Side Community Now (UNC-NOW); and Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
