CORE brings neighbors together across Chatham County to learn, build relationships, and take action for racial equity. Bring your voice, your experience, and your commitment to what our communities can become.

Stronger Together This Giving Tuesday

Help CORE reach our $25,000 year-end goal. Your gift supports community learning, organizing, local leadership, and the staff who keep this work moving.

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Creating a Culture of Repair

Join Rev. Dr. Robert R.A. Turner and CORE for our next Brunch & Learn on Saturday, February 6, 2027, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Pittsboro. Come share a meal, bring your questions, and explore how we build a culture of repair together. First-time participants are welcome.

Free registration • Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center

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Learn Together. Build Relationships. Take Action.

CORE brings residents together to build community power, develop local leaders, and influence decisions that advance racial equity.

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Community Learning

Brunch & Learn gatherings and community conversations create space to ask questions, deepen understanding, and connect learning with action.

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Healing and Connection

Listening to one another and honoring lived experience help us build the relationships that sustain collective work.

Organizing and Leadership

CORE supports residents as they identify shared priorities, strengthen civic participation, and act together on decisions affecting their communities.

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Find Your Next Step with CORE

Start with a conversation or a gathering. Learn alongside your neighbors. Bring your experience into the work of building community power. Our CLIMBER pathway connects participation with leadership and lasting change.

The CORE CLIMBER Pathway, from community connection to systems change. Seven steps: Connect, Listen and Learn, Increase Participation, Map Issues and Priorities, Build Community Power, Exercise Leadership, Reshape Systems.

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Start with Brunch & Learn

Help Sustain the Work

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Community power grows through consistent relationships and shared commitment. Give once or join CORE's Power Circle with a monthly gift to help sustain education, healing, and organizing throughout the year.

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Community Organizing for Racial Equity

Stronger Together. Building Community Power.

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