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| A Word from the Director | May 2020 |
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Grieving Together
Over the past 10 weeks, the Institute for Emerging Issues has been talking with our statewide and local partners to try to understand this confusing crisis we are going through. Through phone conversations, zooms, webinars, and emails we’ve been asking some pretty basic questions: what’s happening from your perspective? What can we do about it now? What might we do differently in the future to make it better?
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| IEI Remembers Andrea Harris |
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North Carolina lost a great citizen on May 20. Andrea Harris died at the age of 72. Andrea spent 50 years standing up for the elderly, fighting for affordable housing, helping minorities in our state get businesses started, and advocating for the essential role of historically black colleges and universities. As we re-air our July 10, 2018 First in Future episode with IEI National Advisory Board member Andrea Harris, we pause to remember her lifelong commitment to serving our state and communities.
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| Announcing ReCONNECT to Move Forward |
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In light of COVID-19, and consistent with our organizational mission to focus on the emerging issues of our time, the Institute for Emerging Issues has made some necessary adjustments to our ReCONNECT NC series. In consultation with our sponsors, we’ve cancelled our October 28 ReCONNECT to Health and Well-Being Emerging Issues Forum in Greenville and will instead focus on what we are have learned and are learning about reconnection roughly six months into the pandemic: we’re calling our new focus “ReCONNECT to Move Forward.” We will explore critical issues related to COVID-19 over the course of three large virtual meetings that will take place in September and October 2020. We plan to announce the meeting topics and dates in July.
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| IEI Receives ARC Grant to “ReCONNECT Western NC” |
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IEI will be working with eight of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) counties in Western NC to help advance community economic development, thanks to a $150,000 grant from ARC. We look forward to sharing news about their projects in the coming months.
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| Latest in Digital Inclusion Policy |
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The NC General Assembly is considering several bills that would increase broadband infrastructure across the state. Keep up with the latest in digital inclusion policy news on IEI’s DI Policy blog.
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| Rural Faith Communities Team Hosts Faith Leader Weekly Conversations |
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Our Rural Faith Communities team have been hosting a series of "Open Space Faith Leader Weekly Conversations.” The team hosts these virtual conversations every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 a.m. for NC faith leaders (clergy, laity, and partners that work with faith communities) as a way to learn how folks in the faith space are doing and also what they are doing during throughout this crisis.
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Partner Spotlights |
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NC Rural Center presents Rural Talk: An Advocacy Speaker Series
Rural Talk: An Advocacy Speaker Series is a 5-part webinar series hosted by the NC Rural Center’s advocacy program, Rural Counts. Rural Talk brings together the voices, expertise, and perspectives from thought leaders at the national, state, and local levels, representing the public, nonprofit, private, and philanthropic sectors to discuss key issues affecting rural North Carolinian’s—broadband, entrepreneurship and small business development, health, housing and water and wastewater infrastructure.
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