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Looking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities

Center for Community Progress

The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania. Participating in CRF better equips fellows to advocate for and lead change that addresses systemic property vacancy.

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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

AWS Public Sector Blog

Whether lobbying political leaders in world capitals or running grassroots campaigns in local communities, ONE encourages governments to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Our goal is to create a world in which everyone, everywhere can lead a life of dignity and opportunity.

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Digital Engagement for Mental Health

Social Pinpoint

Specifically, within the last few years, predominantly during the pandemic years from 2020 to 2022, it indicated that 21.5% In a recent study released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in October 2023, it was revealed that 42.9% of Australians aged 16–85 had experienced a mental health disorder at some point in their lives.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2020, I wrote a series of articles about creating systematic neighborhood revitalization planning and implementation mechanisms to address disinvestment in large and small communities, focused at the scale of the neighborhood. Purposeful neighborhood revitalization.

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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But hands down, the easiest bread to bake comes from the recipes by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City, first popularized by an article in the New York Times in 2006 --although it took me til 2020 to finally start baking it regularly. He compiled recipes into My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method.