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DoSomething’s journey with AWS brings efficiency, scalability

AWS Public Sector Blog

With our unique mix of technology, youth culture, and creative peer-to-peer engagement, DoSomething members have completed more than 94,000 hours of service, and have registered nearly 420,000 young people to vote since 2018, with a 62 percent turnout rate—more than 12 percent higher than the national average.

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Southern California Wildfire Response: How City Leaders Can Help

NLC (National League of Cities)

Authored by: Amanda Brown Lierman, Senior Director for Policy & Engagement & Executive Director of GoFundMe.Org GoFundMe is a community-powered fundraising platform dedicated to helping people help each other.

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People aren't "hanging out" as much outdoors during the workday in the center city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Applying modern artificial intelligence techniques to old video footage, the researchers compared pedestrian activity in 1980 and 2010 across prominent locations in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia. At each site, pedestrians walked faster in 2010 than they had in 1980, by an average of 15%.

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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

What’s more, the research finds that the lowest-density community districts added housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. Data analyzed by the Furman Center shows that the city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7 percent of the total land across the five boroughs but contain just 28.4

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011).

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The Benefits of Community Engagement for Universities and Colleges

Social Pinpoint

Community engagement can have many benefits for universities and colleges. So, it only seems natural that community engagement within universities and colleges can have far-reaching benefits. So, it only seems natural that community engagement within universities and colleges can have far-reaching benefits.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Citizen engaged planning practice. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.