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WHERE WE WORK

The Institute serves a fourteen-county region in North and South Carolina surrounding Charlotte, NC.

However, some programs and projects of the Institute extend outside this set of counties to other areas around the Carolinas.

For more information about the fourteen-county region, go to the "Our Region" page.

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Our Mission

To seek solutions to the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our communities.

The Institute is one of the nonpartisan applied research and community outreach centers of UNC Charlotte. Founded in 1969, the Institute provides a wide range of services, including technical assistance and training related to operations and data management; public opinion surveys; land-use and natural resources consulting; economic development research and community planning to meet the needs of the Charlotte region and its citizens.

The Institute is part of UNC Charlotte's Metropolitan Studies and Extended Academic Programs (MSExAP), which oversees a number of the University's premier community engagement initiatives. For more information on MSExAP, go to http://mseap.uncc.edu/. For more information on UNC Charlotte, go to http://home.uncc.edu.

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