Poverty Awareness at UNC

UNC-Chapel Hill has a long tradition of serving North Carolina, including its most needy citizens. Beyond that, our growing global interdependence means that UNC students, faculty and staff have brought their dedication, energy and talents to bear on a range of problems confronting people throughout the world.

Upcoming Events

Please check back soon for events in spring semester 2012.

UNC Organizations

• APPLES Service-Learning
• Campus Y
• Carolina Center for Public Service
• Carolina Microfinance Initiative
• Center for Civil Rights
• Extended Disaster Relief
• Global Medical Brigades
• Insight Out
• Office of Economic and Business Development
• Patchwork
• Roosevelt Institute UNC
• Strive for College
• Student Action with Workers - Students Against Sweatshops
• Student Global Health Committee
• Student Health Action Coalition
• Student Poverty Reduction Outreach (SPROUT)
• UNC Habitat for Humanity
• UNC School of Law Pro Bono Program

Faculty/Staff Poverty Researchers

• Howard Aldrich, Kenan Professor and chair, Department of Sociology
• Alice Ammerman, associate professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health
• Kenneth Andrews, associate professor, director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology
• Richard N. L. (Pete) Andrews, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
• Ed Baker, professor of health policy and administration, School of Public Health and
  Director, N.C. Institute for Public Health
• Michele Berger, assistant professor, Department of Women's Studies
  Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science
• Lynn Blanchard, director, Carolina Center for Public Service
• Judith Blau, professor, Department of Sociology and chair, Social and Economic Justice
• Jack Boger, dean and
  Wade Edwards Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law
• Anita Brown-Graham, director, Institute for Emerging Issues, N.C. State University
  Adjunct Professor, School of Government
• Neal Caren, assistant professor, Department of Sociology
• Joanne S. Caye, clinical assistant professor, School of Social Work
• Mimi Chapman, associate professor, School of Social Work
• Pat Conway, professor, Department of Economics
• Gail Corrado, lecturer, Department of Public Policy
• Kyle Crowder, Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
• Mathieu Despard, clinical assistant professor, School of Social Work
• Marcie Fisher-Borne, Ph.D. candidate, School of Social Work
• Daniel P. Gitterman associate professor, Department of Public Policy, director of undergraduate studies
• Michal Grinstein-Weiss, assistant professor, School of Social Work
• Jacqueline Hagan, professor, Department of Sociology
• Jacquelyn Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History and Director, Southern Oral History Program
• Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa, associate professor, Department of Public Policy, and director of Graduate Studies
• Kathie Mullan Harris,
  James Haar Professor, Department of Sociology
• Jim Johnson, William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School and director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
• Arne Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
• Sherryl Kleinman, professor, Department of Sociology, and director, Social and Economic Justice Minor
• Charles Kurzman, professor, Department of Sociology
• Jim LeLoudis, professor, Department of History; associate dean for the honors program; and director, James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence
• Stephen W. Lich-Tyler
  lecturer, Department of Economics
• Ted Mouw, associate professor, Department of Sociology
• Gary M. Nelson, professor, School of Social Work, and associate director, Program Development and Training Initiatives, Jordan Institute for Families
• Francois Nielsen, professor, Department of Sociology
• Dennis Orthner, professor, School of Social Work and associate director for Policy Development and Analysis, Jordan Institute for Families
• Susan L. Parish, assistant professor, School of Social Work 
• Krista Perreira, associate professor, Department of Public Policy
• Andrew Perrin, associate professor and associate chair, Department of Sociology
• Roberto Quercia, professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, and director, Center for Community Capital
• Kelly B. Reath, clinical associate professor and director, Asheville Part-Time Program
• Bill Rohe,
  Boshamer Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
  Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies
• Eunice Sahle, assistant professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies and the Curriculum in International Studies
• Pam Silberman, research associate professor, Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health and
  President, North Carolina Institute of Medicine
• Karla Slocum, assistant professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies
• Sandy Smith-Nonini,
  adjunct assistant professor, Department of Anthropology
• Joel J. Schwartz, adjunct professor, Department of Public Policy, and professor emeritus, Department of Political Science University Professor of Distinguished Teaching
• Lorraine Taylor, assistant professor, Department of Psychology
• Karolyn D. Tyson, associate professor, Department of Sociology
• Lynne Vernon-Feagans, William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Early Childhood, Families and Literacy and professor of psychology, School of Education
• Deborah Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law
• Jesse White, adjunct professor, School of Government
  Director, UNC Office of Economic and Business Development