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Joe Howarth presented “Oral Histories as a Strategy for Developing Relationships in a Community-University Partnership” at the Urban Affairs Conference in San Diego. The session was very strong and we received good feedback from attendees and other presenters.

Dr. Janni Sorensen took part in the 2016 Women + Girls Research Alliance at UNC Charlotte’s Center City Campus. She spoke in one of the conference conversations about Bridging Divides, Building Solutions. Photo courtesy of the Niner Times https://t.co/rPQO08Xc8m

School is back in session and our partner neighborhoods are actively pursuing a number of initiatives. Graham Heights continues to host a neighborhood walk on the third Saturday of every month. Residents of Enderly Park are vigorously working on a Women’s Safety Audit in their neighborhood. Reid Park is finishing up the numerous grants they […]

Throughout the semester, CHARP, UNCC students, and Enderly Park residents have worked on the Greater Enderly Park Women’s Safety Audit. The Women’s Safety Audit is an organizing tool to bring residents together to make neighborhoods safer for women and children in neighborhoods. Residents walk their neighborhood and talk about safe and unsafe spaces in their […]

Angel Hjarding’s Butterfly Highway project is gathering steam. Fresh off a presentation on citizen science in Sweden, she is continuing to organize in CHARP partner neighborhoods to create the Butterfly Highway. The Butterfly Highway is a community-conducted, citizen science effort to create “highways” for vital pollinators in Charlotte, NC. Green spaces and pollinator gardens will […]

CHARP welcomes new and returning students to UNCC for a new semester. We also welcome our neighborhood and campus partners back from the holiday season. We have a lot of exciting projects to work on this semester and summer. We continue to work on the Enderly Park Women’s Safety Audit. The Butterfly Highway Project is […]

Public, non-profit, and private organizations are working to raise funds to end chronic homelessness in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Using a Housing First approach, the funds would potentially end chronic homelessness in Charlotte. The Charlotte Observer posted an excellent story this week. Ending chronic homelessness in Charlotte

CHARP member Tara Bengle helped to organize the Art Meets Activism event on October 18th, 2014. The Arts & Democracy Project hosted and funded a full day workshop to bring together activists, artists, students, and community leaders to explore the intersections between art and activism in Charlotte. The Behailu Academy in Noda hosted the event […]

Dr. Sorensen co-authored a paper that was recently voted “the most influential research related to health care disparities for 2014.” The poll was conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The research engaged Hispanic youth and paired them with Dr. Sorensen’s undergraduate seminar students to perform a Photovoice project. The youth photographed aspects of their […]

Cache Owens of CHARP is hosting a planner’s panel as part of her NCAPA Fellowship on February 24th at 11am in McEniry 117 at UNC Charlotte. The panel will be part of Dr. Robby Boyer’s Intro to Urban & Regional Planning course. The panel will include 4 planners, 3 from the public sector and one […]

Al Richmond, the new Executive Director of the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), will be visiting UNC Charlotte March 23-24 and will be sitting down with members of CHARP and MAPPr to discuss ways to collaborate with these organization at UNC Charlotte. He will also be speaking on March 24th at 3pm. His topic will […]

The visit of the Executive Director of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) was a big success. Al Richmond enjoyed meeting with our neighborhood partners and shared with us his deep knowledge of the City of Charlotte. Mr. Richmond spoke to a number of UNC Charlotte faculty and students as well as health care representatives in […]

PlanCharlotte has conducted an incredible, in-depth history of Charlotte’s creek and waterway system as part of their Keeping Watch series. The site discusses each important creek in Charlotte and its complex history filled with good memories and abuse that have shaped how we see and enjoy the creeks today. Of special interest is the piece […]

The Mobile Arts & Community Experience (MAX) is the product of a $350,000 Knight Foundation grant and the work of the UNCC College of Arts and Architecture, City.Building.Lab and the Charlotte Action Research Project. The MAX is a mobile space for neighborhoods to hold meetings and integrate the arts into community events and organizing. The […]

The Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund event on March 26th was a big success. The event began with a presentation by Cache Owens explaining the Women’s Safety Audit process and partnership with Greater Enderly Park. She would subsequently present this discussion at the Urban Affairs Conference in Miami. The guests and students from GEOG 2000 presented […]

Residents of Graham Heights and UNC Charlotte students worked together to clean up the streets of Graham Heights and rewarded themselves with a block party for the neighborhood. The event was a big success and residents were able to meet new neighbors. The event also shared information and research gathered by the students regarding the […]

Angel Hjarding took part in the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS) held in Charlotte and organized by UNCC faculty including Robby Boyer (Geography) and Nicole Peterson (Anthropology). She led a group of conference attendees on a tour of Enderly Park in an effort to count butterflies and explain the importance of biodiversity in support […]

WFAE’s Public Conversations: One Charlotte or Many?: A Neighborhood Perspective was well-enjoyed and received by the neighborhood residents who attended. The audio recording of the event is below One Charlotte or Many?

Residents and UNCC students cleared the path between the College Downs neighborhood and the Harris Teeter shopping center across the street from UNC Charlotte’s main entrance. Residents of the neighborhood use the path frequently. The Friends of Miss Bonnie with the help of the students cleaned up the path, set its boundaries, and cleared away […]

Dr. Sorensen’s GEOG 2000 finished up their semester this week. The class worked with three neighborhoods: College Downs, Enderly Park, and Graham Heights. The students researched the issues related to each neighborhood and performed service and outreach in the neighborhoods to learn more about each issue. The products of this semester are below in the […]

We cordially invite you to attend our next Neighborhood Campus Forum on Wednesday May 29th at 5:45pm in Cone 210. We have invited our neighborhood partners to speak with faculty and students about the research interests they have with regard to their neighborhoods. This is an opportunity to build a new generation of service-learning courses […]

On May 20th there will be a live webcast for the release of Kneebone’s and Berube’s Confronting Suburban Poverty in America. A panel discussion with the authors and anti-poverty experts will discuss how America can rise to meet this new challenge and form that poverty has taken. There will be a webcast of the panel […]

A recent WSOC-TV report discusses how tax money is distributed throughout Charlotte by district. West Charlotte receives the most and South Charlotte receives the least. The information discussed covers 2002-2010. It is an interesting finding but there is certainly more to this story as the West and South sides are still very different. Channel 9 […]

New research done by UNC Charlotte’s Harrison Campbell with Huiping Li and Steven Fernandez demonstrates that segregation hurts not only those segregated in the urban core but also those living in the suburbs and the rest of the city alike. Emily Badger of The Atlantic spoke with Dr. Campbell about how segregation stymies innovation and […]