Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

By: Liz Kozub I got my start in transforming vacant properties in 2012 as an intern for the City of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a dense community of just over 2,000 residents with tremendous community pride. I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

APRIL 24, 2022

History, of course, continues to be made, both as events and as some form of human social development. As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al. One wonders whether, instead, we are seeing the end of progress.

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First State Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Before coming to the MPO, Marilyn served nine years as Senior Economic Development Advisor in the office of U.S. From 2000-2012, Marilyn was Executive Director for Cornell University (NY) Cooperative Extension in Fulton and Montgomery Counties. Marilyn was appointed Executive Director on December 3, 2020. Congressman Paul D.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I remember reading an article in Harvard Business Review back in 2012 where data science was dubbed the “ Sexiest Job of the 21st Century ”. It comes as no surprise that, with booming investment in AI development, the demand for highly-skilled data scientists has risen dramatically in the past 10 years.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

In this post, I explain how councils used collaboration and shared resources to develop this digital public infrastructure which has reduced the cost of building council websites by up to 80 percent and delivered better services. website, launched in 2012. You select the pieces you need, then build your own add-ons.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Originally developed to exchange flu data, AIMS expanded in the following years to enable laboratories, hospitals, government agencies, and public health jurisdictions to trade information about many public health threats.

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First State Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2020

He came to the Journal from Congressional Quarterly, where he was economic policy editor from 2012 to 2015. He came to the Journal from Congressional Quarterly, where he was economic policy editor from 2012 to 2015. He has had a long career in logistics reporting, including nearly 20 years at The Journal of Commerce.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I was kinda surprised about the conference, because they were big on examples from Minneapolis and Denver, which have light rail lines or networks, and not the DC area, which has Metrorail and at the time, almost 40 years of experience with transit oriented development. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning."

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 3, 2023

Ryo Nagase, Professor from Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan, highlights research concerning advancing connector technologies for multicore optical fibres, starting with an informative introduction Japan has been leading the development of optical communication technology from when the field first emerged. References R. Sakaime, K.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Additionally, these organizations contribute to environmental sustainability through research and innovation, providing data and developing new solutions. WWF Netherlands developed Forest Foresight , a predictive tool on AWS that identifies potential illegal deforestation before it occurs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes.

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Public Policy Blog

JULY 23, 2013

Many nonprofits use their brands primarily as a fundraising tool, but a growing number of nonprofits are developing a broader and more strategic approach, managing their brands to create greater social impact and tighter organizational cohesion ( Kylander & Stone, 2012 ) attempting to act as catalysts of change in the world.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 31, 2018

Kageyama is an author, whose book For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places was recognized in 2012 as a Top 10 Book in urban planning, design and development.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Klein assumed the leadership of BOI (formerly FIELD) in 2012, after working as a senior consultant since the program’s inception in 1998. She has also designed and managed grant programs aimed at supporting innovation in the practice of microenterprise development in the United States. Prior to her work with BOI, Ms.

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Peak Proposals

JUNE 1, 2023

Before we discuss each tool, we want to give a quick overview of what a reference manager is and why you may want to add one to your proposal development toolbox. Paperpile Screenshot of Paperpile’s landing page ( www.paperpile.com ) Paperpile came out in 2012. What Is a Reference Manager? universities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 7, 2024

. -- " Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland) ," 2023 -- " Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ," 2020 -- " Urban decay and sprawl: one community's gain at the expense of another's ," 2011 -- " A brief lesson in "incentivizing" supermarkets and department stores ," 2007 -- " Why it's okay (..)

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The newest generation to enter the corporate workforce, Generation Z consists of individuals born between 1997 and 2012. They were the first generation to have two parents working, meaning they spent a lot of time alone, developing a self-sufficient spirit. Every generation brings positive traits to the workforce. Generation Z (Gen-Z).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2023

The reality is that then successful districts like Friendship Heights and Georgetown still faced voracious competition, but from the suburbs (" Turnabout is fair play: why Topher Matthews/GGW is wrong about TIF incentives for a department store in Georgetown ," 2012). So I was missing the point.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

The site was originally approved for a mixed use development with 400+ apartments above, which would have generated more income, sales, and property tax revenues for the city. But with the recession, the developer wanted quick and easy money and sold the development rights to Walmart--a 75 year lease, with renewables.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

WRT bus service improvement see: -- " Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012 -- " Will buses ever be cool? Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). And with that I had to laugh.

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Today, as more than 1,000 leaders, customers, partners and developers across the public and private sectors join us at our Google Cloud Summit ‘18 in Washington, DC, we are taking a look at the public sector’s move to the public cloud. They have realized $32.5M in total cost avoidance as a result.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Plans for a redesign of the State Street commercial corridor in downtown Ann Arbor as presented to the city's Transportation Commission by the Downtown Development Authority and SmithGroup in January 2022. Exhibition Road in London is much better design-wise ( Guardian review , 2012). But I suppose it is a start.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The Thoughtworks team first created Bahmni in 2012 for a charitable hospital in a remote part of central India, Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS), through our social impact program. To support the growing community and its needs, Thoughtworks formed the Bahmni Coalition of open source developers and implementation partners.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. New York City has since developed many such groups for parks and and business districts. Conservancies and BIDs as special service districts.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. On this basis, we went ahead to establish and develop the IJDRR. The biggest risk is superficiality in one's understanding of the research and the new developments in one's field.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 4, 2022

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning" ," 2018. The Bridges now. What's proposed, rendering with the park in place. "

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. I argue that a lot of urban policy was developed when cities where losing population and stabilization was the primary goal, staunching outmigration. historic architecture 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

Multi-racial block parties were organized, a community association open to all was created, and eventually, a community development corporation was created which focused on improving properties, and developing new ones, including developing a portfolio of affordable housing which would always be affordable.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Over the past twenty years a set of institutionalized funding relationships developed in which nonprofit organizations in the forms of private philanthropic foundations and “friends of” charities formed and now raise increasingly large share of revenues to help pay for public services. Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development?

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

AWS recommends customers develop a document as a part of their overall Authority to Operate (ATO) package that addresses the following topics regarding utilizing Auto Scaling groups.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 5, 2022

In China, there was a 15% decline in Registered Newborn Babies in 2020, and because of this trend, “the country’s population is aging more quickly than most of the world’s developed economies, a hangover from decades of family planning policies” (Bloomberg). births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0

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