The Kramden Institute

According to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School system, there are approximately 500 families in our district that do not have Internet access. These households include thousands of children of all ages. Imagine if your children couldn’t research a topic online or...

Kitchen Guides Accelerator’s LAUNCH

Launch Chapel Hill Opens Its Doors to Startups BY ANN JOHNSTON People assume I live in Durham or Raleigh because that’s where they usually see me. I don’t. I live in Chapel Hill. I was a UNC-Chapel Hill student when my company was conceptualized....

Jim Kitchen 2012 Chapel Hill Citizen of Year

Chapel Hill, NC – On Wednesday, December 19, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2012 Salute to Community Heroes at University Mall. Annually, the Chamber recognizes men and women who are committed to making Chapel Hill-Carrboro a thriving, healthy...

Kramden Gives 10,000th Computer to Carrboro Family

Carrboro Family Receives Non-Profit’s 10,000th Computer Article from Abraham Jaroszewski (ChapelBoro.com), Pictures by Kramden DURHAM – The Kramden Institute, a Durham-based non-profit, awarded its 10,000th computer to families graduating from the Chapel...

New Chapel Hill Incubator

From the Chapel Hill Weekly – Evan Markfield – June 7, 2012 It’s hard to imagine a Town council meeting with vibes as good as the ones in the chamber May 30. The council kept 3 Birds Marketing in town with a business incentive deal that will see the company get some...

Incubator Approved in Chapel Hill

CHTC Approves Incentive Package and Incubator Plan Elizabeth Friend Reporting CHAPEL HILL- Citizens and council members say a new public/private partnership marks a sea change in the way the Chapel Hill encourages economic development. Nearly everyone in Town Hall had...

Basketball is Zeller’s Business

[Tyler Zeller was one of my students in the fall of 2011 and was a great role model for all aspiring “student-athletes”.] Tar Heels senior studies leadership, carries it to the court for final home game. By Andrew Carter acarter@newsobserver.com Posted: Tuesday, Feb....

ABAN – What Are Your Dreams?

‘What are your dreams?’ BY LAURA OLENIACZ loleniacz@heraldsun.com; 419-6636 DURHAM – While recruiting for a training and education program to be launched in Ghana as part of start-up nonprofit ABAN, co-founder Callie Brauel asked young women and girls the question,...

Kenyan runners are like poetry in motion

They do more than race back and forth between Africa and America Sometimes, sports seem to defy physics: the reluctant bend of a deep homerun that seems to stubbornly hang in air before disappearing into an ocean of fans; the golfer’s perfect draw of an approach...

Sir Richard Branson’s Lessons From a Boy

My son Kenan and I had the opportunity to meet Richard Branson in New York in May 2010. My goals for the meeting were to discuss a leadership initiative/book that I had been working on and to inspire Kenan by introducing him to one of the finest social entrepreneurs...