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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists

Partnership for Public Service

Vote online for the Sammies finalist you believe has made the most significant contribution to public service. Vote for your favorite finalist once per day, and show your support on social media by resharing the Partnership’s posts on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and LinkedIn using #Sammies2024.

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She Wears Many Hats: Block Leadership and Civic Engagement with Jen Devor

Iron Sharpens Iron

Episode Transcript Here: [link] Jen Devor is a South Philly block captain, committeeperson, public school advocate, voting enthusiast, and a published author on civic engagement. Currently, Jen serves on the Community Advisory Boards of WHYY, DiSilvestro Recreation Center and Vote16USA, a national nonpartisan effort to lower the voting age.

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She Wears Many Hats: Block Leadership and Civic Engagement with Jen Devor

Iron Sharpens Iron

Jen Devor is a South Philly block captain, committeeperson, public school advocate, voting enthusiast, and a published author on civic engagement. A Philly resident since 2002, she has held leadership positions at Campus Philly, Diversified Community Services, Neighbors Investing in Childs Elementary, and Committee of Seventy among others.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). October 24, 2002.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I argued for years that the move by the teams to DC from the suburbs weren't the reason that the Downtown East End began revitalization.

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Salt Lake City Weekly Gift Guide 2023 includes "community/government wishes"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " City Weekly's year-end guide to getting through the holidays and closing out those Christmas lists. With regard to the last point, it's something I will be writing about. 11 years is enough time to be able to construct significant infrastructure.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Bush administration in 2002. Why “meeting people where they are” matters: 1) We are generally a passive voting audience, if you meet us where we are, in theory we are more likely to participate – right? First president to deliver the speech in primetime was Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Bush in 2004.