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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

“And that leads us to: how do we not just better communicate, but better understand and engage with the residents across the city of what it means for everyone in every neighborhood to help address the housing crisis?” The homeownership rate is far lower for Hispanic of any race households at around 30 percent.

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

A Library Writer's Blog

Dear Colleagues, We are issuing a call for proposals for an edited volume tentatively titled, Advocacy and Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers: Perspectives and Strategies to be published by ACRL (forthcoming Spring 2024).

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

Our response was informed by our longstanding engagement in disinvested communities with vulnerable populations underserved by traditional housing financing and our work supporting land banks that repurpose vacant inventory into affordable homeownership opportunities.

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The Future is "Perserverance" with Jane Leonard

The Future Is Community podcast

Jane highlights examples of interdisciplinary collaborations across Minnesota to demonstrate how successful community development enhances economic growth alongside social justice. In this episode, Jane Leonard draws from her 40 years of wisdom to emphasize the fact that our world is not one-dimensional.

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AWS Nonprofit Credit Program expands support for nonprofits of all sizes

AWS Public Sector Blog

The following are some examples of the innovations nonprofits have developed with support from this program: Amplifying citizen advocacy across Africa ONE is a global movement to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030. To help reach audiences across Africa, ONE launched a mobile chatbot built on AWS.

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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

One highlight has been the generous grant of over $1 million from JP Morgan Chase to support our Developers of Color initiative. This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities.

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Student training program tackles Thailand’s air pollution with help from AirGradient, AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

million Thai citizens seeking treatment for pollution-related illnesses at the start of 2024 ( up 23 percent from 2023, according to data from the country’s National Economic and Social Development Council). In parts of the country, air pollution reached some of the world’s deadliest levels in recent years, with 1.6