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First in Future: Entrepreneur, Sift Founder and CEO Jud Bowman

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Oct 26, 2017

Maggie (and Service Year NC) Goes to Washington!

I spent last week in DC at the inaugural Service Year Impact Community Institute. This training, hosted by Service Year Alliance (SYA), was invite only and brought together communities across…

Oct 26, 2017

The Director’s Log: October 2017 | Special Edition

Calling All Futurists! In 16th century England and Ireland, one of the staples of Halloween was predicting the future. They did it through a series of party games. After peeling…

Oct 24, 2017

First in Future: Plexus Capital Co-Founder and Partner, Kel Landis

Summary: If you were looking to identify a poster child for citizenship, you could do a lot worse than Kel Landis, co-founder and partner at Plexus Capital. As you’ll hear…

Oct 17, 2017

First in Future: NC League of Municipalities’ “Municipal Equations” Host Ben Brown

Summary:  When solving big problems, local folks are the canaries in the coalmine – they are likely to notice a problem before anyone else, and more likely to be able to…

Oct 10, 2017

First in Future: The N.C. Rural Center President Patrick Woodie

Summary: In the late 1990’s, I worked on a project called the North Carolina Rural Prosperity Task Force. The idea was to develop a series of recommendations that could make…

Oct 3, 2017

First in Future: RTI International President and CEO Wayne Holden

Summary: From the beginning, it was a romantic idea. In 1954, a building contractor named Romeo got together with North Carolina’s state treasurer and a bank president to hatch a…

Sep 27, 2017

The Director’s Log: September 2017

I’ve been on the road for the past couple of weeks (you can view my notes on a week of talking with and learning from Chinese government leaders, business owners…

Sep 27, 2017

Together in Crisis

During what should have been a relatively carefree Labor Day weekend featuring sunny skies, last minute backyard BBQues and dips in the pool before the summer closing, many of us…

Sep 27, 2017

Talking “Crib to Career” Across North Carolina

During the past 30 days, we’ve logged hundreds of miles, crisscrossing the great state of North Carolina to talk with community leaders about the economics of early childhood investment through…

Sep 26, 2017

First in Future: Entrepreneur, Sift Founder and CEO Jud Bowman

Summary: The old joke about economic developers is that they like to be buffalo hunters; they are always looking for a giant beast of a company that they can drag…