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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer. Work proceeding on remediating the Morgantown Ordinance Works. Photo courtesy of WVLSC.

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CFP: Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations - Virtual Conference, March 8-9, 2023

A Library Writer's Blog

As an inevitable reality of heritage preservation--saving everything is an impossibility--a nuanced understanding of the fundamental role of loss is an important counterpart to these organizations’ work towards preservation, permanence and sustainability. What is heritage and cultural property, and to whom do they belong?

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Islands innovating to future-proof water resources

AWS Public Sector Blog

Islands can be testbeds for sustainable innovation that can help address these needs. For example, in the Balearic Islands tourism accounts for more than 44.2% While agriculture accounts for 70% of all freshwater globally, withdrawals compared to 20% for industry and 10% for municipal and domestic use.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

Class equity enables students to open their own “bank account,” through which they practice earning classroom dollars, saving, and spending in a safe environment. The CFE Fund’s national Bank On platform supports local coalition and financial institution efforts to connect consumers to safe, affordable bank accounts: [link].

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CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

PBB contributes to a community’s long-term financial sustainability and allows communities to better serve their residents in the most effective, efficient and fiscally responsible manner possible. Demand Accountability for Results. Traditional budgets focus on accountability for staying within spending limits.

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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

On June 21, 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative ( ASDI ) Global Hackathon, part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO. ASDI data catalog offers open and no cost data in the cloud.

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U.S. Embassy Panama Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program - August 30, 2022

iGrantWriters

  Promote more open and sustainable economic growth in Panama through activities that encourage or strengthen local entrepreneurship The U.S.   Encourage the development of a strong civil society that upholds the values of transparency, accountability, and good governance   The U.S. policy and perspectives. based partners.