Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

In Yancy County, North Carolina Cooperative Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program partnered with a local agency to offer a diabetes-prevention program aimed at Hispanic women. EFNEP provides nutrition education program to limited-resource families across the state.

Institute for Emerging Issues Regional Forum

The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) organized five regional forum across the state, including one in Asheville, where leaders from the business community, civic organizations, school boards, faith-based communities, higher education, county and local governments shared their ideas on how local issues affect statewide tax and finance themes.

College of Design's Downtown Design Studio

In Wake Forest, citizens engaged in a series of community design workshops led by the College of Design's Downtown Design Studio to create a vision for revitalizing the old W.E.B. DuBois School campus. The College of Design's outreach efforts bring a better quality of life and economic opportunities to downtowns, neighborhood, and other areas across the state.

IMPACT Evaluation Project

The IMPACT program brings innovative technology solutions to public schools like those in Perquimans county. The Friday Institute helps evaluate the impact of these programs on students' school performance.

Center for Environmental Farming Systems

Based in Goldsboro, CEFS provides a variety of workshops on sustainable agriculture practices for growers, extension agents, and consumers around the state.

Lumbee Home Designs

The Home Environments Design Initiative, a research and extension endeavor of the College of Design, collaborates with the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina to address issues of affordable and sustainable housing. The partnership has produced a set of home design guidelines and four prototype home designs. Six Lumbee Home Designs are now under construction or complete.