GovLoop

JUNE 12, 2024

Priorities for States Each year, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) publishes federal advocacy priorities that represent areas of focus for the upcoming year and how states can collaborate with federal agencies, Congress, the White House and strategic partners. Here’s a look at recent developments.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review also mentions grantmakers adopting an “equity lens” and responding to “global and political crises” as equitable grantmaking practices. The result for you is more stability and less scrambling to find and develop relationships with new grantmakers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

From the article: The thread running through Penalosa’s campaign is that Toronto is a good place to live, but its timid leadership has held it back. The Toronto Star article campaign, " Can't we do better? ," is focused on the years of under- and dis-investment by the government in the city's network of civic assets and infrastructure.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Through our work in grant development, we’ve met many faculty members who have not received training on how to find funding or write grant proposals. To make it easier to navigate the content, we've outlined the post below, hyperlinking each section heading to the relevant part of the article. This post is lengthy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

From the article: The effort to save the store kicked off on Walter Street. Neighbors immediately banded together in an effort to purchase the building. The group was only days away from making an offer on the 3,313 square foot, two-floor building when it was sold April 25 for $1.25 In the past I've discussed this in terms of remedies.

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A Library Writer's Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Context of the Case Study: Social justice and inclusion advocacy has emerged as a strong force of mobilizing progressive changes in the 21stcentury. Articles will include the participatory (and engaging) aspects of documenting live facts. Proposed title of the article. Proposed abstract of the article (no more than 500-word).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 15, 2024

Needless to say, the local business advocacy group didn't agree. But overall since the region's development paradigm is sprawl, drive ins are huge. Like a lot of administrations, to them any development was good development. That's pretty close to us, and Sugar House is where Sugar House Park is, where I'm on the board.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives. That’s because both are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2023

Philadelphia's Design Advocacy Group, uniting more than 2,000 professional architects, designers, and planners, has come out against the proposal too, because it argues it will have a deadening effect on Market Street at the ground level (" A large Philly-based group of architects and designers just came out against the 76ers’ arena plan ," PI ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. Because land use planning is about managing not preventing development, you're always going to get plenty of citizens calling the system corrupt. It's not corrupt--well, not usually.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

But there have been a bunch of Associated Press articles in my newsfeed, which clued me in. -- " Volunteers speak on why they serve and why more people don’t " -- " Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers " -- " New to volunteering? Nationally, the Safe Routes to School Partnership is the primary resource.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the number of students we taught rose and tenure-track faculty left, they were replaced with wonderful, intelligent, highly-trained contingent faculty with heavy teaching loads, by-the-course or one-year contracts, and little to no support for equipment, materials, or professional development. That took over my life for the semester.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, emerging and distressed commercial districts aren't likely ready for street furniture, and need more assistance in developing organizational capacity, compared to healthy districts, or those in later stages of transition.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Parks agencies can engage citizens as programming providers, community experts, and volunteers, by creating parks and recreation committees and systems for developing and offering program for each facility. The latter conference includes advocacy activities, while Park Pride focuses on technical training. Whyte and "triangulation."

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They head up the advocacy, fund raising, and other civic duties associated with the role. Director of Development. Then check out a career on the development side, with the director being the one in charge of funds raised. Then check out a career on the development side, with the director being the one in charge of funds raised.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

From the article: Ultimately, as with Ferguson, we recognized that we had a deeper problem and we had to be more aggressive in owning up to the problem. I don’t think we had been aggressive enough in embracing this new population that was developing in the city. Mayor: Ferguson Pols Should ‘Own Up To The Concerns’ Of Community ," NPR).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County. Plus, most state and local sites don't do a very good job of putting their documents online to begin with One of my ideas is to develop an online database of such historical documents.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 24, 2023

This article aims to shed light on the use of generative AI for teaching writing, emphasize the value of the skill of prompt engineering to the job market, and address concerns about plagiarism associated with the use of AI. Education is no exception.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Part 2 examines eight key policy topics, via a Q&A format, that must be accurately understood to develop effective policy that can expand affordable housing via MH. Nevertheless, the advocacy I have found with respect to MH demonstrates some confusion regarding this fundamental. percent per year.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This article aims to take a fresh look at MH to determine just how much it truly can be a large-scale natural source of additional affordable housing, whether owner-occupied or rental, as claimed by its supporters in the industry and policy community. MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. housing system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

From the article: NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES It's not clear how the United States' 63 national parks would be affected. I'm not saying this is a scintillating article, but I read it at the doctor's office, " What does it mean to be ‘wild’? Although states and localities can step in with interim funding to keep them open.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

It is important to clearly state that the analysis in this article is based on the economic reality that if a loan does not have an interest rate that is appropriately risk-adjusted for its creditworthiness, then by definition there will be cross-subsidies in operation, even if that is not overtly stated. This claim is simply untrue.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

She mentioned an article in the New Yorker about apples, " Crunch: Building a Better Apple ," and I was reminded of a story I read in a Toronto newspaper about an Italian immigrant who kept a fig tree going in his backyard for decades. which describes a community trying to save a noteworthy tree from being torn down by a developer.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The GSEs and the FHFA together raised it to more than double 23 its pre-conservatorship value and a more defined economic rationale was developed over time to determine its “right” level. 40 Nevertheless, it has been most of a decade since the CCF was first developed. public comment periods) were bypassed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 14, 2022

I collect ephemera--gas station maps, postcards, ads, magazine articles, illustrating mobility patterns from the different eras.) The City of San Francisco adopted a "transit first" development policy in 1973. Failures in execution make transit development and expansion that much harder. Transit First Policy, San Francisco.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Seattle Times has an article, " After reaching sad record last year, WA traffic deaths trend higher ," about how traffic related deaths are still rising, while they are plateauing elsewhere. An interesting point is that there are fewer crashes, but more deaths per crash.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

The incoming presidential administration of Donald Trump (Trump II) is now developing key policy priorities to implement once it takes office in January. 2] This article, the first of a two-part series, will ask and then answer ten key questions about the long-discussed issue of when and how the GSEs might exit conservatorship.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 25, 2025

Some of the articles about Earth Day (4/22/25, usually acknowledged the weekend before or after) focused on acts people can take to make a difference. Many Earth Day events are organized around tree planting events organized by local and state tree advocacy groups. One is planting trees. Green bonds as a funding source.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

She was a leading member of the area transit advocacy group, LINK Houston. But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face. From the article: Barry saw the bus companys raised rates as a direct hit to low income people in the District, who were mostly African American.

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