Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I always say that the first big lesson I have from involved in DC urban revitalization was that you needed to have plans before they were needed, not after, because once the velocity of development has been unleashed, you can't catch up. It's a similar process to that of the original development of city centers (Downtowns).

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

In 2018, only 5 percent of the conventional mortgage market were loans to Black borrowers, compared to 15 percent of the FHA/VA market, which are government-mandated to serve underserved borrowers. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

17-17 Troutman Street, Queens, former textile factory, 90 studios 64 Fulton Street, Financial District, Manhattan, mix of religious and nonprofit organizations and 20 studios Equinox Studios, Seattle. Mycella Collective. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap, and more artists follow.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Developing a grant strategy involves identifying the funders and funding opportunities you intend to pursue over a certain period of time (usually a 12-month period, although it could be longer). We first wrote on the topic of preparing a grant strategy back in 2018 in a post entitled " Creating a Grant Strategy for 2018.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics. Poster board from the 2014 meetings. The second biggest thing I learned was the need for focused and effective implementation organizations.

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Let's Talk Parks

JULY 15, 2020

They also offer a mentoring program; ProConnect, Professional Development School, Supervisor Symposium, a web series, and during the pandemic we had an excellent series by Jamie Sabbach, “Call to Action,” provided by IPRA as well. She was 2018-2019 Chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Ethics Committee.

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iGrantWriters

JULY 7, 2021

Eligibility NIC invites applications from nonprofit organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations), for-profit organizations (including tribal for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. Summit County where Park City is then developed a similar tax, called RAP, Recreation, Arts and Parks. But for $3.5 The tax had to be approved by the Legislature originally and is renewed every ten years.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 -- " Update on DC's plans to build a new United Medical Center ," 2018 I argue that "a building" isn't enough, you have to have a plan to address health inequities in innovative and novel ways. HealthLine in Cleveland.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

It's why Friendship Heights in DC isn't doing so great retail-wise (" Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ") and why DC can't really develop a strong retail center in the core. I do believe that basketball and hockey arenas should be located downtown and that they can contribute positively to 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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

But there have been a bunch of Associated Press articles in my newsfeed, which clued me in. -- " Volunteers speak on why they serve and why more people don’t " -- " Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers " -- " New to volunteering? A How-To-Guide to find the right fit " -- " Why are volunteerism rates uneven?

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

If your organization is new to grant seeking, or you’ve only recently incorporated grant applications as part of your development operations, curating your grant calendar and sending out proposals can seem high-stakes enough. Grant management and reporting are crucial aspects of the overall funding lifecycle.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

While I don't know for sure, I bet like DC's ANCs, there's very little investment in board development, providing technical assistance etc. So the attachment to neighborhood schools has waned, she said. Now they have a hard time getting enough candidates. I found out in Salt Lake City that city committee members get $30 per meeting.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

From the article: Community schools, which, among other things, integrate nonprofits, businesses and colleges on the school site to offer services to students and their families, have existed for more than a century. Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 20, 2023

Riffing off of " Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando ," that entry mentioned that Brightline is developing a similar railroad service between "Los Angeles" and Las Vegas, called Brightline West. The system went into bankruptcy and now is run as a nonprofit.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

That was in the mid 1970s, and now the trees are maybe 50 feet tall--this photo is from 2018, and the trees in question are behind the garage. which describes a community trying to save a noteworthy tree from being torn down by a developer. Some died and we nursed the others. Their historicity. North Columbus Avenue, Galion, Ohio, c.

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A Library Writer's Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Nicholson, of The Politics of Theory in the Practice of Critical Librarianship (2018), and of Exploring Inclusive & Equitable Pedagogies: Creating Space for All Learners from ACRL Press. Her current research is focused on perceptions of librarian labour, programmatic critical information literacy, and faculty instructional development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

What gives me hope are the nonprofit organizations that I am thrilled to share with you today, who are among thousands of organizations around the globe filling vital gaps in services and support for our people and planet. Among this cohort are nonprofits on the cutting edge of what’s possible with technology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Every day, nonprofit organizations around the world are improving millions of lives and our planet’s health with their ingenuity, resourcefulness, and compassion. Learn more about how nonprofits use AWS to advance their missions around the world at the AWS for Nonprofits hub. The John F.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

LearnHaem , a nonprofit online educational resource based in Singapore, grew out of a need to make haematology content accessible and inclusive to medical professionals and students around the world. In 2020, the team decided that they would build their own digital slide viewer on AWS.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed. Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 -- " Downtown Edmonton cultural facilities development as an example of "Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2018

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

The AWS Imagine Grant is a public grant opportunity open to registered nonprofit organizations who are using cloud technology to accelerate their missions. Now in its eighth year, the AWS Imagine Grant is expanding to nonprofits beyond the US, UK, and Ireland, adding Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2022

They do not, but they have developed a program called Community First , working with nonprofits in their district that do have dedicated staff with the expertise and range of applicable resources to help. Like most places, New York City has city-provided reporting mechanisms, 911 and 311.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Buy the Mother F **g Building Already series of articles about how arts groups (independent retail and nonprofits) should buy their own buildings to protect their interests. And two floors in a building in Hackney Wick (a cool district I stayed in in 2018). is in a new build residential complex.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The new right to buy legislation can help shift the balance of power in less well-off areas, where local development has too often meant more betting shops or fast food outlets. But Labours overall communities strategy needs to be considerably fleshed out if its impact is to be transformative.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The actual Source Theater group disbanded, and with the purchase by Cultural Development Corporation later in 2006, the building was retained for use by cultural groups, more as a rental facility. And consider the development of an allied tourism management and development plan, either separately or within the same framework; 3.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020. Stop Soldier Suicide (SSS) is the only national nonprofit focused solely on solving the issue of suicide among US veterans and service members. The suicide rate among veterans is still 1.5 veterans dying by suicide every day.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The year 2024 was filled with both excitement and thoughtful consideration in the nonprofit sector as the world seeks to understand and apply transformative cloud technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance impact and increase productivity.

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