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Creative Placemaking in Loíza, Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

At the beginning of March, the 2022-23 Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF) cohort travelled to Loíza, Puerto Rico for their second learning exchange. Loíza residents, like the grassroots leaders participating in CRF, have worked hard to reclaim some of these properties as sites of community and culture.

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WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I Grants - March 31, 2022

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Deadline to Apply March 31, 2022 Eligibility Applicant Eligibility for Existing Watershed GroupsIn order to be eligible to receive an award as an Existing Watershed Group, the applicant must be an eligible entity as described immediately above and must be either: An Existing Watershed Group, (i.e., watershed group,â??

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

May 24, 2022 – The Center for Community Progress (Community Progress) is honored to share the participants for the 2022-23 Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF). The post Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico appeared first on Center for Community Progress.

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CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

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Formal instruction largely began in the 1960s and 1970s as a grassroots movement led by librarians rather than library administrators or library schools (Mellon 1987), and some librarians still feel their library administrations do not understand or value their teaching. (Oakleaf et al.

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CFP: Advocacy and Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers: Perspectives and Strategies #ACRL #ACRLPublication

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SMART Copyright Act of 2022) Critical Race Theory Data Ethics and Access Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) Digital/Information Literacy E-Book Bills & Database Costs Environmental impact on data centers Ethnic Studies Curriculum Assembly Bills Federal Depositories (e.g.

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Digital Engagement for Mental Health

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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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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. Volunteers at a Valentine’s event at Lucky’s Lane in 2022, prior to revitalization work.