Verna Torain has lived in east Greensboro’s Cottage Grove neighborhood for more than 25 years. When she first moved to the community, many residents worked in nearby factories. “Now everything’s closed down,” she says. “There’s no jobs.” Traditional manufacturing jobs that powered the Piedmont Triad’s economy for decades have mostly disappeared… Continue reading…
https://provost.uncg.edu/blog/2016/10/10/uncgs-center-for-housing-and-community-studies-an-advocate-and-partner-for-decent-and-affordable-housing/ http://yesweekly.com/whats-driving-the-affordable-housing-deficit-in-greensboro/ http://yesweekly.com/researchers-examine-link-between-housing-and-health/ http://ure.uncg.edu/prod/cweekly/2016/05/31/dr-stephen-sills-3/ http://yesweekly.com/LAYERS-OF-DATA-a23073/ Grab a hammer we have work to do
Getting away with murder: Unsolved homicides in Winston-Salem and Greensboro Rebecca is a junior at UNCG and has been interning this past semester at Triad City Beat, an alternative news paper based in the Piedmont Triad. Nice work, Rebecca! For more info on the newspaper, go here… Home
12/2/14 broadcast…. http://myfox8.com/2014/12/02/uncg-student-helps-the-homeless/ Way to go Melissa D!
November 26, 2014 by Campus Weekly Staff UNCG volunteers packaged more than 14,000 meals Nov. 21 for those who’d otherwise go hungry. “It goes to people globally,” says Blaze Jarrell. The sophomore Public Health Education major is the Residence Hall Association’s VP for community outreach and was the event point… Continue reading…
“Be the change you want to see in the world…” -Ghandi http://www.carepackproject.com/ The Care Pack Project started as a project for one of my courses at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and took off from there. According to the North Carolina Point in Time Count, in January 2014,… Continue reading…
