Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) Road Witch was a campaign in England 20+ years ago, focusing on rebalancing the use to streets toward residents, not automobiles. See Fighting Traffic:The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In contrast, grants tend to be much larger sums of money given by established entities (foundations, corporations, governments). Key Concept: Do Your Homework There’s no way around it: Finding foundations and government programs to apply for funding takes a significant amount of effort. You may be thinking, but money is money, right?

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the last few years, there’s been an understandable reassignment of many key communication staff to booster public health campaigns, with few able to prioritize the essential task of updating (now painfully old) policy. Run a community advocacy program . Consult early on policy decisions. Make use of available funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

What’s a Better Fit, Government or Foundation Funding? Government Databases IV. Not only will the funder require one, but they may expect to have significant input on your M&E plan, to the point of telling you the indicators you should use; this level of engagement is not uncommon in government-funded grants.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Fortunately, there is evidence that the decades-long track record of such blocking being so effective may finally be coming to an end.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

Modeled after Chronicle of Higher Education, a newspaper for higher education, that we used to subscribe to and read at the University of Michigan student government, Education Week provides the same type of in depth and feature coverage of K-12 education. I've never seen a public library that subscribes. Most teachers don't know about it.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. Collective action (CA) can be defined as all activity of common or shared interest among two or more individuals (Olson, 1971).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Seattle's Feet First advocacy group is a great resource for such programs. Government has a bias for inaction. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great.

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Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws 40

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

In addition to those needed to fulfill campaign promises, various interest groups are advocating to add to that list, including calls to prioritize having Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) [1] , exit their 16-year-long conservatorships.

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 8, 2017

And let’s not forget tax cuts tilted heavily toward very rich people and thriving corporations — revenues the government could otherwise use to shore up programs that serve low-income people’s immediate needs and as both parties are fond of saying, build (or rebuild) the middle class. Government 101 than perhaps any of you need.

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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. One of his campaigns was a bus boycott in response to a fare increase (" Marion Barry Leads Bus Boycott ," WETA/PBS). Ferguson ," book review).

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