North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Coastal Progress, Inc.) [manuscript].

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North Carolina Fund records, 1962-1971 (Coastal Progress, Inc.) [manuscript].

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Records (about 4,000 items) of Coastal Progress, Inc. (CPI), a North Carolina Fund community action program in Craven, Jones, and Pamlico counties, N.C. Included are records of Craven Operation Progress (COP), organizaed in 1964 and, in 1966, combined with Jones County Economic Development Corporation and Pamlico County Economic Development Corporation to form Coastal Progress, Inc. These files are especially good for information about administrative policies and procedures and public relations efforts. Programs documented included Neighborhood Youth Corps, adult basic education recruitment, a small business development center, day care centers, home management aides, rural environment sanitation, a federal credit union, and a strawberry marketing co-op.

About 187000 items (330.0 linear ft).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7366934

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Neighborhood Youth Corps (U.S.)

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Coastal Progress, Inc.

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Pamlico County Economic Development Corporation.

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Jones County Economic Development Corporation (N.C.)

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Craven Operation Progress, Inc.

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North Carolina Fund

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The North Carolina Fund, an independent, non-profit, charitable corporation, sought and dispensed funds to fight poverty in North Carolina, 1963-1968. Gov. Terry Sanford and other North Carolinians convinced the Ford Foundation to grant $7 million initial funding for a statewide anti- poverty effort aimed at rural and urban communities. This money--plus additional funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation; the U.S. Dept. of Labor; U.S. Dept. of Health, E...

Community Action Program (U.S.)

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