Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

The plan focused on action steps and funding approaches that could be taken by local government entities and partners. In 2017, the City of Bethlehem enlisted Reinvestment Fund and its partners Consulting and Atria Planning in the creation of a data-driven plan, dubbed the Bethlehem Blight Betterment Infinitive, or B3.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about. They remade it into a full park circle. commitment and time.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But it is also a management failure of local government. Admittedly, oversight-wise, WMATA has a hard slog, as the State of Virginia, State of Maryland, and DC are "co-owners" now alongside the federal government. The director then, Mark R. They all have to agree on major decisions.

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

We test this hypothesis using a sample of all 159 counties in the state of Georgia from 2010 through 2017 and find this to be indeed the case. Governments with full-time chief financial officers are more likely to access this strategy, but it can be beneficial for different sized local governments, regardless of managerial capacity.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The CFE Fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; our programmatic, research and policy efforts focus on designing, embedding and replicating financial empowerment initiatives within the fabric of local government. Emily joined First Western in June of 2017 and currently serves as CRA Analyst. Emily Gardner, Senior CRA Analyst.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

To prevent a “climate catastrophe,” the focus of local, regional, national, and international government leaders has been to keep temperature rise in check – no more than 2.0°C C increase above pre-industrial levels. But with goals in hand, city leaders had to find a way to fund them.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

Stephen Rocks, an economist with the Health Foundation, a research organisation, said there had been “a very sustained under-investment in capital” over the austerity years of the 2010s, which had “left the NHS with insufficient capital investment to deliver the care patients need”.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

When we originally wrote the book, we were aware of a sea of writing that ballyhooed the potential of performance management to cure what ailed state and local government. Performance management efforts are more likely to be sustainable if they are not overly identified with an outgoing political administration.

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Social Pinpoint

MAY 28, 2023

Public engagement is any process that involves the public in problem solving or decision-making and uses public input to make sustainable and enduring decisions. This article was originally published in 2017. Public engagement includes all aspects of identifying problems and opportunities, developing alternatives and making decisions.

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