PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 1, 2024
For more information, contact:
Emily Nicholson, Executive Director, Land of Sky P20 Council
emilyn@landofsky.org or 252.916.2678
Land of Sky P20 Council Selected To Participate in Institute for Emerging Issues’ Financial Resilience Community Cohort
The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University has chosen five teams from across the state to participate in its Financial Resilience community cohort. Members of this cohort include representatives from organizations that are working to increase household financial resilience locally, especially for communities with historically increased barriers to saving and debt management. This is IEI’s tenth cohort promoting community-level capacity building. Melissa Zenz, Community Engagement and Data Management Specialist, and Emily Nicholson, Executive Director, are participating for the Land of Sky P20 Council and will be focusing on increasing postsecondary financial aid awareness among communities and families so that more prospective students, from youth to adults, are knowledgeable about their options for beginning or continuing their career preparation studies at a community college or university.
Over the next two years, each of the five cohort organizations will:
- Receive an organizational assessment to identify key capacity-building needs for their organization.
- Work with a support provider who will address one or more of those needs over 12-18 months, depending on the time needed to deliver the support.
- Participate in five semi-annual peer learning meetings over a 24-month period. Two in-person and three virtual meetings will include sharing successes and problem-solving challenges.
IEI will share what the cohort learns with a statewide audience to capture lessons learned and inspire others to scale what works.
For more information, please visit: https://iei.ncsu.edu/2024/07/01/financial-resilience-community-cohort-announced/
About the Land of Sky P20 Council
The Land of Sky P20 Council fosters collaboration among employers, educators, and community members in the spirit of enduring economic prosperity, through the alignment of innovative cradle-to-career skills and resources that lead to life-sustaining job opportunities in our four-county region of western North Carolina. The Council is one collaborative across the state that underscores the endeavors of myFutureNC, which established a goal for NC to produce 2 million individuals possessing credentials that lead to gainful employment by the year 2030. The P20 Council is grateful for the support it receives from the John M. Belk Endowment.
For more information about the Land of Sky P20 Council, please visit: https://www.losp20.org.
