Happy Holidays

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being a part of our community, working to build an economy with opportunities for all to prosper. Hoping you have a wonderful holiday season and wishing you the very best in 2023! More

CREATE leadership provide testimony on topics of Offshore Wind projects and SBIR

• Mark Little provides expert testimony for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project
• CREATE Participates in UNC Engagement Week with Four Community Engagement Stories
• NCGrowth Analyst Sam Wilkes honored with Thomas A. and Yolanda Kaye Stith Leadership Award
• Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Series – Capital Ecosystems: Seeding Smaller and Regional Funds to Increase Opportunity
• SBIR Turns 40: Evaluating Support for Small Business Innovation
• CREATE’s Nicole Outlaw featured in <em>Substantial Magazine</em> for her work helping businesses in Eastern Carolina
• SmartUp Client Marvin Ross of Peculiar Pig Farm featured in <em>The New York Times</em>

Unsung hero, New SC partnership, NIH SBIR STTR Assessment report, & work with Princeville

• Kellye Whitaker awarded the MLK Unsung Hero Award
• Research Highlight: Assessment of the SBIR and STTR Programs at NIH
• NCGrowth and Historic Princeville Work to Identify Market Opportunities for Newly Acquired 53-Acre Parcel
• Creating new partnerships in South Carolina – SCACED

Creating Prosperity – February 2022

• Mount Olive Region Economic Development Project Wraps Up!
• NCGROWTH Analyst Jaelon Talley Explores NC Media Landscape
• CREATE Receives Support Through Z Smith Reynolds Foundation State-Level Systemic Change Strategy
• Success Story: Craston Artis Highlighted by UNC Kenan Flagler
• New Case Study Updates Live on Homegrown Tools

Creating Prosperity – January 2022

• CREATE Welcomes Inaugural Strategic Council
• CREATE Executive Director Panelist on Carolina Business Review
• NCGROWTH Receives NC USDA Grant
• Business Client Highlight: SS Hamilton Farms – Green Pond, SC
• Kellye Whitaker Recognized as a Woodland Community Advocate by The Center for Heirs Property Preservation

Creating Prosperity – December 2021

• 2021 Year in Review
• We are looking for a dynamic PROGRAM MANAGER to join the CREATE and NCGrowth team!
• Happy Holidays from Our Team!

Creating Prosperity – October 2021

• CREATE Receives $2M Grant from Truist Foundation to Rebuild, Fortify Local Economies Across & Beyond the Carolina
• Economic Development: New Housing and Economic Resilience Assessment for Boone, NC
• South Carolina: Meet SmartUp’s New Client Bowman Vineyard
• Research: Maryann Feldman Presents to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology

Creating Prosperity – September 2021

• Creating an Asset Map for Hickory Nut Gorge’s Outdoor Recreation Strategic Plan
• Freedom Air HVAC to use Virtual Reality Technology in it's HVAC Technician Certification Course
• The Glam Boutique Hosts Vendor Expo and Fashion Show
• Conference on Emergence Co-Hosted by CREATE & Academy of Management's TIM

Creating Prosperity – August 2021

• NCGROWTH Presents Economic Development Project to Gates County Commissioners
• Biden’s Build Back Better: A Brighter Future for Black Families?
• NCGROWTH Conducts Market and Competitor Analysis for Battery Xchange
• Meet NCGROWTH-SmartUp's New Client, SweetgrassRoots