zencity

MAY 2, 2022

Our research insights on inclusive engagement from community members and engagement practitioners. Are you an organization that is trying to develop an inclusive engagement culture and practice in your organization? 2020 was an unprecedented year for humanity. Yet providing a tool for community engagement was not enough.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Citizen engaged planning practice. Participatory Budgeting initiatives.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The problem is that the surge in demand is happening when agencies are dealing with budget constraints and worker shortages. In 2020, GHVP partnered with Zendesk to streamline and centralize its communications as well as support employees and agencies across the state. More Engagement, More Trust.

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zencity

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Law enforcement relies on crime data to identify trends and deploy resources accordingly, to use in budget formulation and planning, and to assess the efficacy of crime reduction efforts. In November, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released its report summarizing the findings of the 2020 Police-Public contact survey (PPCS).

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2020, Google Cloud introduced a digital sovereignty vision that included three distinct pillars: data sovereignty, operational sovereignty, and software sovereignty. Moving forward, we will continue to engage with our customers to deliver the solutions they need to solve their most complex problems.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 26, 2022

Bill Zielinski, CIO for the city of Dallas entered city government after spending years at the federal level, holding key positions at the General Services Administration, Office of Management and Budget, Social Security Administration, and OPM. A few years ago, there were no remote options. Encourage Use of Webcams. “To Read the full guide.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, with school systems adapting to the pandemic and distance learning being more prevalent, there’s an increasing need for our youth to have opportunities to engage with nature — and one program that has been assisting in providing outdoor access to our youth is Every Kid Outdoors. Every Kid Outdoors allows fourth graders in the U.S.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 24, 2023

The mission of the ETH Library is to ensure the access of information to employees and students of ETH Zurich and other universities worldwide, to the public, and to companies engaged in research and development.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Every agency’s response depends on different factors, including budget restraints, workforce demands and available technology. Going virtual can be a drastic transition, so engaging features such as screen sharing can make digital collaboration and training feel more natural. Most agencies, however, are used to doing things physically.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

That was the goal of the North Carolina Pandemic Recovery Office (NCPRO), which the state’s governor created in 2020 to manage the distribution of federal recovery funds. Best Practices to Keep People Engaged When creating a survey, think about the user experience. Here are some insights they shared. Don’t give it to them.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms. Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 19, 2022

It is not just the CFOs who are cognisant of budget constraints. Spreading costs over several budget years may be a more realistic way of achieving the result, although this isn’t always possible. 1] Fraser Institute Report: Dec 2020. Complexity. Find out how they keep hospitals flowing here.

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Bang the Table

APRIL 22, 2022

Responding to customers preference for online engagement since the pandemic’s physical distancing requirements, this online platform enables residents to share what matters most to them while connecting at their convenience from the comfort of their home. A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit’ .

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. The two companies have no lobbyists or lobbying budget and make no political donations of any kind.

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 30, 2022

We started another set in 2018, with the last person interviewed on January 28, 2020, just before Covid. According to the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities , for every 100 families living in poverty, only 21 received cash assistance from TANF in 2019/2020. I am not sure of plans for the future.

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AccessE11

JUNE 10, 2022

Prior to adopting AccessE11 in September 2020, residents submitted roughly 40-50 formal service requests to the town in any given year. Many were also using it for citizen engagement, elected official offices, and even internally for staff IT ticket handling. What More Would Users Like to See?

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mary Schwarz , Managing Partner, ICF Next Government, is a digital strategist and marketing technologist with a comprehensive range of experience in direct marketing, web development, community outreach, and analytics, Mary leads our Government, federal digital and engagement practices.

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Google Public Sector

JULY 25, 2023

The mission of the ETH Library is to ensure the access of information to employees and students of ETH Zurich and other universities worldwide, to the public, and to companies engaged in research and development.

Development 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Other cities have differently named similar organizations. Even neighborhood associations.

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Barrett & Greene

MAY 8, 2023

by Dawa Hitch, Communication and Public Engagement Director, Asheville, North Carolina. This process helped us to hone in on communication and public engagement. That tragic event served as a further catalyst for change in Asheville and it was clear that engagement with the public needed to be improved – and quickly.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

The industry has a reputation of engaging in aggressive advocacy and political influencing whenever a threat to the existing third-party selection business model arises. This means all the ingredients are there for housing interest groups to engage in “deny and strongly advocate” tactics effectively enough to win the day.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

They were called Citizen Summits and were designed, theoretically, to get citizen insights into city policy and budget. I was critical that they were mostly window dressing, but I did attend one, and if they were organized to engage people in substantive ways, they could be very effective. And I don't see things changing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s never been easier to engage with specialist AI/ML companies to access a mass of talent and expertise who can either build you a bespoke model or provide a SaaS-like platform to make sense of and draw insight from your own or external data. In 2020, countries globally spent $1.9 Using emerging technologies to enhance defence.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

However, this can be hard to discern at times due to inflation and property values benefitting from continuing expenditures to maintain them, and especially during strongly price-appreciating markets (such as the pandemic-distorted years of 2020 and 2021); nevertheless, it is true over the long-term. percent per year. ” [link]. [9]

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Collaborating with the Florida League of Cities (FLC), we endeavored to provide a simple and practical revenue forecasting strategy to help cities in Florida plan and prepare for the potential impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on their budgets. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

We invite authorities in other government disciplines like budgeting or human resources to do the same. Retrieved at: [link] Linking Performance to Budget: Andrew Kleine (2018). City on the Line: How Baltimore Transformed Its Budget to Beat the Great Recession and Deliver Outcomes , Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Some of the key messages: 1) The need for safe spaces to have discussions without the threat of publicity, 2) A more systematic way for practitioners to know what research universities are currently engaged in, 3) The importance of considering research needs at an early stage of a project rather than down the road.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JULY 16, 2025

In our research, we found that due to the complexity of these systems, asset managers allocate on average 60 to 80 percent of their technology budget to run-the-business initiatives, leaving only 20 to 40 percent for change-the-business operations. Gen AI also supports automated onboarding, ensuring faster and more accurate data capture.

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