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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The school district doesn't understand at all the link between neighborhoods and school success, school success and neighborhoods, and the need to invest in outreach and building relationships beyond the school grounds. Although many of the schools do art festivals in the Spring, doing great projects as fundraisers. but it fell off.

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Call for Chapters: Student Success Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on an Evolving Profession (working title) #ACRL

A Library Writer's Blog

She received her MLIS from North Carolina Central University in 2016 and her BA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of North Carolina Asheville in 2011. Her research interests include outreach for nontraditional students, critical librarianship, open pedagogy, equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

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Picture this: How the U.S. Forest Service uses Google Cloud tools to analyze a changing planet

Google Public Sector

So we were thrilled to learn in 2011 that its scientists were using Google Earth Engine , our planetary-scale platform for Earth Science data and analysis, to aid its research, understanding, and effectiveness. Its impact reaches far beyond even that, offering its research and learning freely to the world.

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University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program and community revitalization in West side Salt Lake City/County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The author attributes Brookland's revitalization to President Garvey's efforts while I pointed out that the real estate development project he was inferring started at least 6 years before the president took office in 2011--the project starting delivering as he became president.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, is an outreach program of Montana State University serving 61 rural communities in over 10 weeks across five states. The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ).

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, is an outreach program of Montana State University serving 61 rural communities in over 10 weeks across five states. The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ).

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. 7) Meeting people where they are is not just a metaphor for social media but I think an extension of how the Obama administration has attempted to operate a particular type of constituent outreach. Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. Look out world.