During the Summer of 2017, the Institute for Emerging Issues launched the NC Big Idea Challenge — our first-ever “crowdsourcing” effort to identify the biggest issues facing North Carolina. We reached out to thousands of people in communities across the state, through social media, direct emails, web surveys, listening sessions and discussions — and asked the same questions of every guest on our statewide TV show, First in Future: what’s the biggest issue facing our state over the next five years?
