Carolina Resources for Rural Communities
UNC-Chapel Hill has over 375 schools, departments, centers, institutes, and other entities. Many of them are community engaged and have partnership offerings available to rural communities and residents. UNC Rural helps make these connections and provides additional programs and tools to strengthen these partnerships.
Programs and Tools
Traveling across North Carolina to get to know each other better and listen to what you love about your community and your hopes for the future.
$10K-15K for rural community-academic projects co-offered with UNC Research.
Monthly email featuring news, stories, events, resources and more for rural community-campus partners.
Resources to help with key priorities from 2024 Rural Community Conversations.
Annual showcase of events bringing together campus and community members to highlight partnerships led by Carolina Center for Public Service.
Tool to help interested parties navigate the nuances related to measures of rurality.
$5K-10K for collaborations resulting from participation in the Tar Heel Bus Tour co-offered with Carolina Across 100.
$1K-$10K in technical assistance funds to support rural community partners.
Impact
Partnerships
Stories
Future
Serving rural North Carolina by connecting communities with UNC-CH partners and resources.
UNC Rural
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
333 South Columbia Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill