UNC-TV Presents…BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA
Premieres Tuesday, July 28, at 10 PM

UNC-TV and the Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University have teamed to examine North Carolina’s infrastructure needs. On Tuesday, July 28, at 10 PM, UNC-TV presents Blueprint North Carolina, a panel discussion featuring state experts who define North Carolina’s most pressing infrastructure needs and provide an overview of possible solutions.

In addition to this special television program, UNC-TV and the Institute for Emerging Issues will partner on two community forums and a complimentary webinar series to continue the statewide discussion of these important issues.

Blueprint North Carolina is funded locally by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation as part of the larger, PBS project Blueprint America: Road to the Future, airing on UNC-TV, Tuesday, July 21, at 10 PM. In this hour-long special, host Miles O’Brien examines the steps needed to move our nation’s infrastructure forward.

Produced by Thirteen/WNET, with major funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, Blueprint America (www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica) is an unprecedented multi-platform initiative that harnesses the power and reach of public broadcasting to shine an unyielding spotlight on this issue that is so critical to our quality of life and economic security. PBS’s most prestigious and most-watched news and public affairs programs, as well as several public radio outlets, are producing individual reports on the topic of America’s infrastructure.

Since its establishment in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation has sought to identify and attack at their source the underlying causes of human suffering. The Foundation pioneered the frontier of global philanthropy and continues to find and fund solutions to many of the world’s most intractable challenges. The Rockefeller Foundation attempts to harness the creative forces of globalization, supporting breakthrough solutions to 21st century challenges. This is smart globalization: ensuring that the opportunities unleashed by globalization are accessible to more people, more fully, in more places — and that poor and vulnerable people are equipped to seize them.

For more information about Blueprint North Carolina, please visit our website at www.unctv.org/blueprint.

UNC-TV is North Carolina’s member supported, 11-station statewide television network committed to using telecommunications wisely and imaginatively to inform, educate, and enrich all North Carolinians.