A Library Writer's Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Proposal Deadline: June 19, 2024 Submit Proposals here: [link] You are invited to submit an abstract for a chapter in an upcoming edited book with the working title, Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development published by ACRL.

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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. A TMD should be a lead partner.

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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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Social Pinpoint

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

They provide access to resources, services, and programs that are tailored to community needs, while neighborhood portals offer online areas for residents to engage, share information, and stay connected with local events, initiatives, and projects. Well done, Alpine Shire Council, for staying inclusive with your community initiatives!

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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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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. Tips for Working with Resource Development Staff Resources Notes. How Long Does It Take to Write a Grant Proposal? Taking the Lead in Finding and Applying to Grants a.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 6, 2022

From 1995 to 1998 he served as parks commissioner of Bogota, where he led the development of more than 200 public parks, and helped expand the city’s Ciclovía car-free streets program into an event that’s since been emulated around the world.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

We need an all-of-the-above approach,” said Solomon Greene, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development , who spoke at a breakfast reception before the presentation and panel.

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A Library Writer's Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Have you implemented a new (or old) technology, hosted an event, partnered with others in your community, or just done something really cool? We’re looking for seven 50-minute presentations and four 10-minute “lightning round” presentations. Submit your proposal by Friday, December 16, 2022.

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A Library Writer's Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

Proposals for the 2022 Core Forum are now being accepted CFP URL: [link] About Core The Core Forum will be the inaugural conference for ALA’s newest division, Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, and ALA’s first in-person event since the pandemic began. We emphasize the role of assessment in demonstrating the impacts of our libraries.

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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. I think Loki Coffee has a wide range of events scheduled for April. Suzanne is into them.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

The city developed a capacity building and training infrastructure to support it, after they realized the average community group didn't have the capacity to do it on their own. Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Run a community advocacy program . For those of you preparing for local elections, now is the time to kick off your community advocacy program to ensure you access the necessary funds and meet the growing needs of your community. . Deliver on ‘climate emergency’ rhetoric. Make use of available funding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The State oegislature makes it exceedingly difficult to create locally designated historic districts with controls over development. Yalecrest is a neighborhood historic district in Salt Lake City. A National Register historic district provides protections only against federal undertakings--urban renewal, a freeway, etc.--so

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For example, particularly in many developing countries, organizations that deliver direct services and depend on grants and donations to survive frequently have “foundation” as part of their names to indicate that they are charitable enterprises. Do you provide direct services to individuals, or are you an advocacy organization?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

In the case of radioactive emission, it has been estimated that the top event could be 20 times greater than that of Chornobyl in 1986, which covered the entire continent with radioactivity. A consistent trait has been the failure to learn and implement lessons from past events, or indeed from good practice in other European countries.

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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.) At the Long Beach Beach Streets event, they prototyped sustainable road treatments, but with explanation. Community pop up event showing what a greenway could look like in their neighborhood.

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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. I wrote essays on current events.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

which describes a community trying to save a noteworthy tree from being torn down by a developer. To get people beyond the single event of planting a tree, it has to be built into the programming--greening beyond Earth Day. Their historicity. Also see " In Los Angeles, a Tree With Stories to Tell ," The New York Times.,

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. 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.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The purpose is to establish a solid fact base that is needed to develop effective MH-related policy. MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing. and (3) how much do MH structures appreciate in value over time?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

11 However, there is no evidence that there was a commensurate increase in G-fees in 2022, as such a large increase would have been a major political event in housing finance, with lots of loud complaining by the industry. 40 Nevertheless, it has been most of a decade since the CCF was first developed. But is this argument valid?

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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. I believe in conferences can be great training events. Park People of Canada does local events and a national conference.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 6, 2025

The winners were announced during a virtual event on Feb. Choosing the winners Richard Coffin, director of research and advocacy at USAFacts, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make federal data more accessible to the public, joined Stier to present these awards. Twenty-five products were assessed in 2024.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2025

We use a university portal to post announcements of library events and highlight a library database subscription or collection. We are cultivating advocacy efforts among library student workers to use their own dept/program email groups to share library information. We’ve been using special events to reach non-patrons.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

In fact, light rail here in Salt Lake was spurred by the 2002 Olympics, it's a small system and doesn't go to all the places it should, but it's complemented by a developing commuter rail program, a dinky streetcar line on the south side of Salt Lake and South Salt Lake, and a decent enough bus system.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Green jobs via workforce development is another area where Harris sees significant opportunity. “As Harris explains: “These monies can be used to continue to develop the workforce needed for a sustainable future. This conference features influential voices in sustainability. EarthX2025 -April 20-24, 2025, Dallas.

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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 22, 2023

Many parks, at all levels: national; state; and local, have events. Always the fourth Saturday of September. -- Last year's blog entry Entrance to national parks is free. More should. Federal shutdown. Security planning for trails.

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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. Is a broad heritage trail of significant sites and events in civil rights history. Other urban renewal initiatives didn't help.

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