Strategic Twin-Counties Education Partnership

Step fosters a cross-sector collaborative to build a robust local talent pipeline. Step connects the dots from cradle to career, ensuring that young people in nash and edgecombe counties are exposed to and fully prepared for the 21st century jobs our region offers. Our activities develop the follwing: career awareness work-based learning experiences seamless pathways to industry-recognized credentials education & business partnerships step expands capacity to engage businesses in partnership with the public- school systems and community colleges to increase career exposure, educational attainment, and training opportunities for local students. Through the help of step, these partnerships provide the avenue for work- based learning opportunities for students, and meet the workforce needs of businesses. Additionally, step is the region's backbone organization leading the myfuturenc goal as the local education attainment collaborative.

$400K from 10 funders · 14 grants · 2018–2024