Featured Partner

  • BB&T

    BB&T is proud to support the North Carolina New Schools Project’s Center for Educational Leadership.  Bringing expertise from BB&T’s leadership philosophy, BB&T partners with NCNSP to work with principals and assistant principals to cultivate strong administrators for innovative schools across the state.
     
    “This partnership is a natural fit given our emphasis on developing leaders within our own organization and the communities we serve,” said Paul Barnes, Executive Vice President Employee  Relations Manager, BB&T and NCNSP member, Board of Advisors.  We are pleased to work with NCNSP and with the administrators who are leading teachers and students to great results in North Carolina.”
     
    The North Carolina Center for Educational Leadership at NCNSP provides professional development and coaching services to help principals succeed at NCNSP-affiliated schools.

  • ABB, Duke Energy, NC's Electric Cooperatives and Progress Energy

    Secondary education focused around energy and sustainability received a significant boost this year from Progress Energy, which awarded a challenge grant to the North Carolina New Schools Project (NCNSP). This year's challenge to support science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education has been met by gifts from Duke Energy, ABB Inc. and North Carolina's Electric Cooperatives with donations totaling $165,000.

    This year represents the second of a three-year challenge grant from Progress Energy. Under the terms of the grant, NCNSP raises $100,000 each year from other donors to qualify for the $50,000 annual match from Progress Energy. These funds support an NCNSP-affiliated network of STEM secondary schools with a thematic focus on energy and sustainability. This network -- which continues to expand -- currently includes Avery County High School STEM Academy, Charlotte STEM High School (in planning), Edgecombe Early College High School, Durham's Southern School of Engineering, Tri-County Early College High School in Cherokee County and Wake NC State University STEM Early College High School.

  • Novant Health

    Novant Health is a proud supporter of the NC New Schools Project to prepare more students - especially those who traditionally have been underrepresented - for both college and careers.  As a funder of the Health & Life Sciences network of STEM schools, Novant Health is supporting state economic development while reducing a potentially crippling workforce knowledge gap.

  • Duke Medicine

    Duke Medicine is proud to support NC New Schools Project to help create and develop a network of STEM secondary schools with a health and life sciences theme. With the City of Medicine Academy located on the campus of our Durham Regional Hospital, we are excited about the wonderful opportunities employees and students will have to collaborate through project based learning.  The Academy will also serve as the anchor school of the network, allowing best practices and resources to be shared across schools.  

    "I believe the work being done through the North Carolina New Schools Project is critically important in developing a pipeline of students that are optimally prepared for medical and science education," said Victor J. Dzau, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke, and CEO, Duke University Health System. "The City of Medicine Academy is a great model for introducing students to rigorous learning situations and environments, and we're proud that CMA is located on the campus of Duke's Durham Regional Hospital."

  • North Carolina's Electric Energy Cooperatives

    North Carolina's Electric Energy Cooperatives are proud to support and work in conjunction with the NC New Schools Project to create a curriculum focused on energy and renewable resources for the Wake NCSU STEM Early College High School. The electric cooperatives have been active proponents of innovative education in North Carolina for nearly two decades and have put more than $7.3 million into classrooms across our state through their Bright Ideas education grant program for teachers.

    North Carolina's electric cooperatives provide reliable, safe and affordable energy and related services to more than 2.5 million people across North Carolina in 93 of the state's 100 counties. The 26 electric cooperatives are private, independent and not-for-profit entities committed to providing a high standard of service to residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural customers. Each of North Carolina's electric cooperatives is member-owned and overseen by a board of directors elected by the membership.
     
    This partnership is another example of North Carolina's electric cooperatives' commitment to community and innovation.

  • Progress Energy

    Progress Energy is pleased to be a Corporate Partner of the NC New Schools Project.  Their support allows an energy and sustainability curriculum to be developed for the new Wake NCSU STEM Early College High School and network of schools.
     
    Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 500 energy company with more than 22,000 megawatts of generation capacity and approximately $10 billion in annual revenues. Progress Energy includes two major electric utilities that serve about 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida. The company has earned the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Award, the industry's highest honor, in recognition of its operational excellence, and was the first utility to receive the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates Founder's Award for customer service. The company is pursuing a balanced strategy for a secure energy future, which includes aggressive energy-efficiency programs, investments in renewable energy technologies and a state-of-the-art electricity system. Progress Energy celebrated a century of service in 2008.

    Visit the company's website at www.progress-energy.com.

  • AT&T Foundation

    AT&T has supported the North Carolina New Schools Project for many years, funding STEM education through the AT&T Aspire initiative of the AT&T Foundation.  AT&T and NCNSP are working together to decrease high school graduation drop-out rates and increase academic achievement.  Thanks to support from AT&T and other corporate partners, our schools reported a 2.96% drop out rate in 2010 compared to 4.27% among all North Carolina high schools.

  • GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline has been a supporter since 2006 and generously contributes expertise and funding for STEM education to North Carolina New Schools Project high schools.  With the support of GSK, NCNSP is helping to develop a statewide consensus for change and a vision to ensure all students have the science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills needed to succeed in college, work and life. 

    To stay competitive in today's global, knowledge-based economy, it is critical that North Carolina seek an increase in the number of students, particularly among women and minorities, who select engineering and related areas of college majors and potential careers.