Community Block Party begins at DuBois April 15

The first of a monthly Community Block Party will debut the afternoon of Saturday, April 15 on the DuBois Campus at 536 North Franklin Street.
From 1 to 7 p.m., participants will find local artisan booths, food trucks, games, music and a DigitalBridge open house with activities for children.
The Block Party is presented by the Wireless Research Center’s DigitalBridge, Town of Wake Forest, National DuBois Alumni Association, and The Black Dollar Corp. Community support includes a $20,000 grant from the Coastal Credit Union Foundation to support digital skills training and the monthly Block Party.
The Block Party brings together the Wake Forest community for family fun and support of local businesses and artisans. In addition, DigitalBridge will hold an open house and free digital-skills training boot camps and computer-based remote work opportunities.
DigitalBridge offers career coaching, digital skills training, access to affordable devices, and jobs matching. DigitalBridge in Wake Forest was launched in 2022 in partnership with the Town of Wake Forest and the National DuBois Alumni Association.
WRC is an independent nonprofit founded in 2010 as the Wireless Research Center of North Carolina to serve as a catalyst for collaborative innovation and technology-led economic development to improve communities. Today, WRC’s core initiatives are designed to improve wireless technologies, accelerate technology startups, support entrepreneurs, and spur economic development through education programs and digital job skills training. For more information, visit www.wrc-us.org. For more information about DigitalBridge, please visit www.mydigitalbridge.org
The Black Dollar Corp. is an organization that runs a Black-Owned Business Directory for the state of North Carolina called #BlackDollarNC, a retail storefront that allows small business owners to sell their own products called Black Friday Market, and a co-manufacturing program called The Factory that allows small business owners to utilize shared equipment to build and create their own products. For more information, visit www.theblackdollarcorp.us
###