Originally focused on natural resources and environmental issues, the Collaboratory has since expanded to numerous other research areas in response to some of North Carolina’s most pressing challenges.
As the Collaboratory marked its fifth anniversary in July 2021, this report provides an opportunity to summarize numerous examples of program success.
In 2019, as part of Senate bill 429, a disaster recovery legislative package, the N.C. General Assembly funded a $2 million flood resiliency study and charged the N.C. Policy Collaboratory to study flooding and resiliency against future storms in eastern North Carolina.
In the 2016 State Budget, the North Carolina General Assembly established the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory (the “Collaboratory”) to utilize and disseminate the environmental research expertise of the University of North Carolina for practical use by state and local government.
