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King County, Washington’s Equity and Social Justice Strategic Plan: An interview with Arun Sambataro, King County – Episode #175

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

That includes the launch in 2015 of an Office of Equity and Social Justice and the creation of its strategic plan, designed to help the county become a place where race and place are eliminated as predictors of prosperity and quality of life for the residents.

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DHS-23-USFA-043-00-99 Fiscal Year 2023 State Fire Training Systems Grant

iGrantWriters

The State Fire Training Programs align with Goal 5 of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2020-2024, which focuses on strengthening preparedness and resilience.

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A Changing Workforce Makes DEIA a Priority at DHS

GovLoop

Already understaffed before the pandemic, state and local governments have seen dramatic drops in employment since 2020 — 68,000 state jobs lost and 627,000 at the local level. The DHS Inclusive Diversity Strategic Plan reflects that success while setting demanding goals for improvement. The rate for all federal agencies is 38%.)

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Innovation in Workforce

GovLoop

But creating a sense of belonging isn’t easy, and in fact the Washington state legislature found so much fragmentation in how Washington agencies addressed disparity that lawmakers created a dedicated Office of Equity in April 2020. The office helps the state’s public and private sectors be more uniformly hospitable.

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How Can the Academic Community Recover from the Impact of COVID-19

Grant Training Center

Findings of a recent Chronicle of Higher Education survey of faculty stress which surveyed 1,122 faculty members at four-year and two-year institutions around the nation of whom 50% were tenured and the remaining tenure-track, non-tenured, part time and adjunct faculty, revealed the extreme changes in stress levels that faculty underwent.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

More parks systems are developing outdoor winter programming guidance ( Denver Outdoor Adventure and Alternative Sports Strategic Plan ), when before perhaps they focused on indoor activities at best. WRT winter and children: -- " New Survey: Majority of U.S. min/day and reached their lowest levels in February at 47.8

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Connecting you with the Benefits of State Associations

Let's Talk Parks

Debbie: My gosh, 2020 has been so difficult for our country, right! Internally, the board chair and I agreed to pause our existing strategic plan and to form a new short term plan focused on just the next 9 months. We hired a strategic planning consultant to do a virtual retreat to help us get it done.