Preview | Season 6
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ncIMPACT explores key issues on how citizens find impactful solutions to NC's challenges.
Season 6 of ncIMPACT explores how local innovation can light the way forward for the entire state in areas like health care, housing, education, public safety and economic development.
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Preview | Season 6
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Season 6 of ncIMPACT explores how local innovation can light the way forward for the entire state in areas like health care, housing, education, public safety and economic development.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Coming up this season on NC Impact, our North Carolina communities are facing big challenges.
- But when we all work together, this is what can happen.
- [Newscaster] We traveled from the mountains to the coast speaking to community leaders and others working together to make change happen.
- It was intense, I have a lot of respect for the people who do this.
- [Newscaster] Join David Hurst and me as we meet the daring innovators transforming our communities.
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