Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

Across its various grant programs, EDA made 175 awards in North Carolina totaling more than $203 million from 2018 to early 2024. Currently, two EDA University Centers operate in North Carolina: one at Fayetteville State University and another at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Economic Development Reauthorization Act of 2024 (S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Computing’s environmental impact on our planet That developer’s laptop doesn’t operate in a vacuum. It allows organisations to spin up, terminate, update, and scale-up applications with better resilience, governance, security, visibility, and lower operational costs. million flights annually.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Mostly, a master plan only covers what the government controls or operates, and usually ignores for profit services, and often, franchised services. But it's a demonstration of a quirk in planning generally and transportation planning specifically. The point of planning is to be proactive, not reactive.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 14, 2023

From 2008 to 2018, Jim chaired FEMA’s National Advisory Council. We advise public and private organizations on an all-inclusive approach to disaster preparedness that addresses governance, planning, operational procedures, technology implementation, training, and exercises in order to achieve a successful and sustainable program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

His tunnels project, The Boring Company, is operative in Las Vegas, but is nothing special (" Elon Musk’s Boring Company to expand underground tunnels in Las Vegas ," The Hill ). The capacity for cars is less than 2,000 people per hour per lane, for a shuttle 6,000, for rail more than that.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Since the program’s inception in 2018, AWS has awarded grants to 66 nonprofit organizations with missions ranging from food security and housing, to maternal healthcare and social justice. Learn more about how to apply for the AWS IMAGINE Grant here.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. 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

We first wrote on the topic of preparing a grant strategy back in 2018 in a post entitled " Creating a Grant Strategy for 2018. This information will help you calculate the gap between your organization's projected operating expenses for the next 12–18 months and its projected income for the same period.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Council has lost confidence in the Montgomery County Planning Board and accepted these resignations to reset operations,” said Montgomery council president Gabe Albornoz (D-At Large). “We Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It's not in operation because of covid but there is a miniature railroad park, S&S Shoreline Railroad, abutting the trail in Farmington. And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options. No signage for park connections abutting the trail. They did have a sign.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But until the course closes at the end of 2023, we are going to continue operating as usual, giving the workshops and our member relations our all. We’re just at a point where it is no longer financially sustainable to continue the course. Create something totally new that I’ve been wanting to create since 2018!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I think that parks, libraries, sustainable mobility programs, and other civic assets are potential touchpoints for civic engagement and participation. London has a similar grants program for sustainable mobility improvements. But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. Some cities already do this.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

But by then, other cities, especially San Francisco ( Sustainable Mobility and Climate Action Strategy ) and New York City ( World Class Streets: Remaking New York City's Public Realm ) far outspanned DC in terms of improving public spaces. They remade it into a full park circle.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Modeled after the NC Rural Center’s Loan Participation Program , CornerSquare Community Capital will be a long-term, sustainable solution to support CDFIs working with small businesses at the local level. CornerSquare Community Capital is accepting additional CDFIs, as well as Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) into the program.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). It lacks a national emergency operations centre. In The Hague there is a compact but technologically advanced operations centre.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Other cities have differently named similar organizations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 3, 2023

Paris was a pioneer when it introduced e-scooters, or trottinettes, in 2018 as the city’s authorities sought to promote non-polluting forms of urban transport. Sustainable mobility framework. In what was billed as a “public consultation” voters were asked: “For or against self-service scooters?”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

The fact is, except for overly wide avenues, the L'Enfant Plan design for the city and its network of streets and sidewalks prioritizes sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. But roads and cars are overengineered to allow cars to drive at high speeds regardless of land use context.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Provide funding, both for capital improvements and operations, that that also considers providing significant ongoing funding to cultural resources deemed important. And consider the development of an allied tourism management and development plan, either separately or within the same framework; 3.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

From " Revitalization planning vs. positive thinking* as planning ," (2018) and " Helping Government Learn ," (2009). Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. Sustainable mobility. First develop a new practice and figure out if it works.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Rainforest Alliance is developing a system powered by AI to accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture and sustainable landscape management practices globally. This multilingual, app-based service uses ‘show me, tell me’ interfaces to support farmers on their sustainability journey in their local languages.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Other companies entered the market, but have mostly ceased operations. It turns out there were nonprofit operations in Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. All the operations were sold to for profit operators as it turns out they didn't account well enough for the cost of replacing the initial fleet of vehicles.

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