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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. And absolutely that it is a key issue. The best time to ask for regularized funding is when you're successful. Step 3: Fix the Funding.

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Grant Decision Making. How do you choose which grants to chase?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

In 2008, I accepted a position as a Major Gifts Officer at the largest independent nonprofit air and space museum in the world. Remember 2008/2009, the Great Recession? I stepped into the CFO’s office and asked if this was in the budget for the next couple of years. Full speed, nonstop, 30+ fundraising events a year.

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ACTION, DATA, EVOLVE! 3 Ground Breaking Moments from the CPBB (Un)Conference

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Just one week ago, our 5 th Annual (un)Conference on Priority Based Budgeting concluded, and to quote one of our attendees who has been to all five “it was easily the most complete Conference, and also the most forward-looking.” The roots of PBB came to life to fulfill that mission. ACTION Action in OnlinePBB centers on the following: 1.)

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. 18 It is worth noting that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), from time to time, estimates the value of the subsidies to the FHLB system.

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10 Awesome Repurposed Emergency Bunkers

Emergency Management Degree Guide

The hotel opened in 2009 and didn’t provide any luxury amenities such as flat-screen TVs. We managed to attract customers who wanted a good quality of service but who had recently tightened their budgets.” In 2008, they launched the “Concrete Mushrooms” project, proposing that the structures be transformed into hostels.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Read them to learn how a city budget works, how townhall meetings are conducted, and even to see the inner workings of a police department. He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. Michael Patrick McGinn was elected the 52nd mayor of Seattle in November of 2009. Top City Mayor Blogs. Mayor Slay. Louis on April 17, 2001.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Nine | Second stage planning for parks using the cultural landscape framework

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Items like vegetation and Parley's Creek were not covered thoroughly in the most recent (2008) master plan update process. or Millennium Park ( 2009 Rudy BRuner Award: Silver Medal winner ) in Chicago. Sugar House Park is almost 70 years old, and has different planning needs compared to when the park was created.

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