Publications

The old cliché “It takes a village” is often used to refer to the rearing of children. However, it can also be used to describe the leveraging of networks to improve an organization’s capacity. As North Carolina begins the long recovery process from the pandemic, the resiliency of the state’s community development organizations (CDOs) is critical. How CDOs access and mobilize social capital is...

Unprecedented environmental transformation during the 2020 pandemic has forced public organizations be innovative at very short notice. Local governments in North Carolina had to change the way they provided services to citizens, rethink their internal systems, and adopt new policies and systems. In this bulletin, we focus on how and to what extent environmental stress...

A child as young as 6 can be a respondent in a delinquency proceeding in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system. This is often referred to as the “minimum age” of juvenile jurisdiction. As potential respondents in a delinquency proceeding, these young children can be

In 2018, the School of Government completed a survey of cities and counties in North Carolina on the adoption and administration of local development regulations. This report provides a detailed summary of the survey results, noting trends in local governments' use of conditional zoning, special use permits, zoning variances, development moratoria, and form-based codes. It includes...