We convened faith leaders, emergency management workers, and local foods advocates to improve food distribution and effective disaster response following Hurricane Dorian and at the onset of COVID-19.

Our members engaged in Beaufort’s Land Use Planning efforts to help get surveys to under-represented people and neighborhoods, resulting in a more inclusive effort.

We brought together people from the court, school, and social service systems to explore how to advance trauma awareness and Personal Resilience tools and practices in our county.

ECC has provided funding for more than 40 Carteret County residents embedded in key institutions to become trained in personal resilience so that they can serve as a trauma-informed resource for co-workers, clients, and neighbors experiencing stress and shock.

We led a series of conservations about what resilience means to our communities.

We led a 7-month network leadership development program, called The Wave Effect, to bring tools and insights into participants’ work and everyday lives; they are now taking part in a learning lab and will measure the ripple effects of the program.

We are facilitating a series of “Feed and Seed” gatherings throughout our region where neighbors can share a meal, have a conversation about community assets and needs, and learn about ECC partner organizations and resources.