myFutureNC Local Educational Attainment Collaboratives
Local collaboratives play a critical role in reaching North Carolina’s educational attainment goal by establishing local goals, identifying strategies and priorities to meet these goals, and working as partners of myFutureNC.
The myFutureNC regional impact team works to engage local communities to support opportunities for growth efforts, utilizing data from resources such as myFutureNC county attainment profiles to initiate conversations around establishing local attainment collaboratives and goals. In addition, myFutureNC is cataloging current local promising practices to support dissemination, scaling, and replication of impactful strategies across the state.
15 myFutureNC Collaboratives make up the state network.
Each team or “collaborative” may cover an individual county, a municipal-county partnership, or a multi-county region.
- Achieve HIGHTS! (Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain)
- Central Carolina Connections: Chatham, Harnett, Lee County Collaborative (Chatham, Harnett, Lee)
- Durham’s Opportunity Collaborative (Durham)
- Empower NE NC: An Educational Collaborative (Pasquotank, Tyrrell & Washington)
- GuilfordJobs2030 (Guilford)
- Land of Sky Education & Workforce Collaborative (Buncombe, Henderson, Madison & Transylvania)
- McDowell Pipeline: Growing our Own (McDowell)
- Our Future Cape Fear: A Roadmap to Meaningful Careers (Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover & Pender)
- Our future in UNiSON (Anson & Union)
- OurFutureE3NC Educate. Equip. Excel. (Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico, Wayne)
- Queen City Collaborative (Mecklenburg)
- Sampson Connect (Sampson)
- STEP: #workHERE Collaborative (Edgecombe & Nash)
- Surry-Yadkin_IMPACT (Surry & Yadkin)
- Work in Burke (Burke)
The ncIMPACT Initiative at the UNC School of Government, myFutureNC, and with the generous support of the John M. Belk Endowment, Dogwood Health Trust and UNC Rural have launched a two-year pilot program that supports this first cohort of 15 local educational attainment collaboratives across North Carolina that seek to significantly increase the number of students successfully complete post-secondary credentials of value in the workforces: a degree, credential, or certification.
Learn more.
Establishing a Local Collaborative
Ready to explore the establishment of a local attainment collaborative? Reach out to your myFutureNC Regional Impact Manager to schedule a discussion regarding the opportunity and potential next steps.
- Sandhills Prosperity Zone: Dr. Robert Locklear – robert@myfuturenc.org
- North Central Prosperity Zone: Brett Brenton – brett@myfuturenc.org
- Northwest Prosperity Zone: Dr. Kim Case – kim@myfuturenc.org
- Piedmont-Triad Prosperity Zone: Preston Roseboro – preston@myfuturenc.org
- West Prosperity Zone: Dr. Kim Case – kim@myfuturenc.org
- Southwest Prosperity Zone: Senemeht Olatunji – senemeht@myfuturenc.org
- Northeast Prosperity: Dr. Angie Jenkins – angie@myfuturenc.org
- Southeast Prosperity: Toni Blount – toni@myfuturenc.org
Regional Impact Managers
Promising Practices
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