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Legislative Tracker
The Rural Center’s advocacy platform, Rural Counts: 10 Strategies for Rural North Carolina’s Future, presents a framework for creating a stronger rural economy in the context of a rapidly changing state. Within these strategies, the Rural Center will concentrate its...
Innovative Leadership Profiles
For 30 years, leadership development has been at the core of the Rural Center’s mission. We know that thriving rural communities need leadership that is inclusive, connected, informed, and creative. We know leaders are not born fully formed. They are nurtured. They...
Rural Counts Policy Luncheons
This May, the Rural Counts team completed a series of six Rural Policy Luncheons in Laurinburg, Bryson City, Morganton, Wentworth, Rocky Mount, and Jacksonville. These luncheons drew 238 rural advocates and leaders from 58 counties across the state....
Jones Street Journal
2019 Senate Budget Overview Thursday, June 27, the House and Senate passed the conference report (CR). A CR is the consolidation of provisions from both the House and Senate budgets into one unified budget. Yet, as many expected, Friday, June 28, Governor Cooper...
Small Business Dynamism in North Carolina
A new joint report from the NC Rural Center and Thread Capital shows that a decade after the Great Recession, North Carolina's small businesses are still struggling to recover and catch up with their urban counterparts in the state. The report, Small...
BB&T and the NC Rural Center Announce Recipients of Inaugural Community Improvement Grants
A new joint report from the NC Rural Center and Thread Capital shows that a decade after the Great Recession, North Carolina's small businesses are still struggling to recover and catch up with their urban counterparts in the state. The report, Small...
In The News: It’s time: Let’s close the gap
BB&T and the NC Rural Center Announce Recipients of Inaugural Community Improvement Grants RALEIGH - On Monday, March 25, alumni of the NC Rural Center’s Rural Economic Development Institute (REDI) and Homegrown Leaders programs gathered at the...
In The News: Leaders demand more rural broadband access; Governor says time to ‘force this to happen’
NC Rural Center mentioned in the Winston-Salem journal article "It's time: Let's close the gap"
In The News: Former Presidential Hopeful John Kasich Joins NC Rural Day
NC Rural Center mentioned in the WRAL TechWire article "Leaders demand more rural broadband access; Governor says time to ‘force this to happen’"
In The News: Let’s celebrate our state’s rural life
NC Rural Center mentioned in the Spectrum News interview "Former Presidential Hopeful John Kasich Joins NC Rural Day"