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Library Cracks the Code on How To Tell Stories to Stakeholders: They Use Email! Here’s How Their Targeted Newsletter Works

Super Library Marketing

When Austin Railey III joined DML as the new Government Relations and Advocacy Director we started brainstorming how we could strategically tell our stories to decision-makers. Claudine says the audience for this specific newsletter is a curated list of 200 elected officials and government sector leaders.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

That’s because both are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. government, allowing them to borrow at near-Treasury rates, lower than any regular private sector company or bank could.

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What can neighbors do about vacant buildings and lots?

Center for Community Progress

But doing something about vacant properties is so hard because of the complicated web of local, state, and federal laws that govern who owns a property and what a local government can do when that owner neglects two basic responsibilities: taking care of their property and paying property taxes.

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Most people probably think of it as speed bumps, but there are many different treatments.

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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

When one thinks of public administration, they often think of a government distributor or manager. And the most likely employer can be the federal government, which has their official site here. Also known as government jobs, civil service tends to be more people oriented. Civil Service. Education Administrators.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Advocacy groups like Feet First of Seattle and Starkville in Motion (Mississippi) have utilized walk to school initiatives as a way to drive pedestrian improvements more broadly across their respective Safety is a key element. To me, government is more about denying, saying no. And I've written about what I call a "bias for inaction."