Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The group managed to gather a total of $475,000 for a down payment. When they heard they had a second chance, they immediately remobilized, holding meetings and beginning the formation of the Mott’s Neighborhood Market, LLC that will function as ownership. There’s no giant benefactor in the background, saying “I’ll cover half of it.”

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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.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 12, 2024

But when you don't have enough people to populate your empty housing, buildings deteriorate and people advocate for demolition, not recognizing in a weak market that improving an empty lot is even harder than fixing an empty house. By contrast, in strong markets there is demand for alternative uses.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Advantages: Project management — Completing a dissertation, publishing research, preparing and teaching courses — all of these accomplishments require advanced project management skills. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved. It was the house.

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

If you want a streamlined approach to manage your recurring checklists and procedures, this might just be right for you. Like any point of strategic adoption of technology, advocacy and support from your colleagues is often the missing link with adoption. You will need to set aside at least two hours, maybe more for this activity.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's doing some great bike infrastructure, some of which we will be trying to get for the perimeter of Sugar House Park. There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) A traffic lane was removed and an in-ROW bicycle lane was installed on 900 East adjacent to Fairmont Park.

Transportation 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts. Ward Halls/Democracy House. This week: How about volunteering in something?

Parks And Recreation 52

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

Meeting the objectives of large legislative initiatives, however, remains difficult for federal agencies due to fragmented leadership and coordination, inadequate resources for implementation and a lack of attention to collaboration and lasting knowledge management. They can also help ensure equitable access to this funding.

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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. Take a chance to innovate.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. Applying public space management principles to restrooms.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

When one thinks of public administration, they often think of a government distributor or manager. They provide instructional leadership and day to day management of educational institutions. Administrative Services Managers. They head up the advocacy, fund raising, and other civic duties associated with the role.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Other cities are managing parks to reduce the risk of wildfire, restoring shorelines to absorb storm surges, and opting for renewable sources of energy. Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. The Creek Management Plan provides a number of recommendations for the Creek within the Park.

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Parks And Recreation Sustainability Housing Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

All to the good, I was surprised to see that more than a handful of houses have gates so they can access the trail, some with elaborate connections because of grade. There were incursions onto the corridor from some houses but it was pretty rare--some bad, but many would be considered acceptable--growing stuff, art works, etc.

Transportation 52

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Looking back at the inquiries and reports on large adverse events in the past, it could fairly be argued that no disaster has been managed well in the UK in the last quarter of a century. Civil emergency management is often considered to be an appropriate second career for former military and police officers. The regional tier.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

A project proposal typically includes a background section, a management and personnel section, and a past performance section. Regardless of your area of expertise and whether you are employed by a nonprofit or educational institution, you will find that the list of viable funders is going to be manageable.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

The former school houses community-led programs focused on passing on Puerto Rican culinary and cultural heritage through distribution of hot meals and by providing educational tutoring to local youth which incorporates local music and dance.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Do you provide direct services to individuals, or are you an advocacy organization? This belief about the advantages of doing things in-house is why we launched Peak Proposals, which has the goal of helping nonprofits build the skills they need to undertake funder research and grant writing themselves. Are you a registered nonprofit?

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure.

Accountability 52

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

This report—produced by the NYU Furman Center and the Urban Institute’s Housing Justice team—uses a mix of public and proprietary data to better understand where those vulnerabilities might lie in New York City. 6 At the same time, the City’s Zoning Resolution (ZR) continues to evolve in response to housing needs.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), has been very prominently in the news lately. The changes then became the subject of hearings and legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to reverse the changes.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Republicans are up in arms that the Biden Administration wants to make "conservation" a legitimate land use for the leasing of public lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (" House Republicans aim to block a BLM land management proposal ," Roll Call ). Trails access, mountain and electric bikes.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Residents of “late modern” society find themselves increasingly responsible for elements of life such as economic security, risk management, and identity maintenance that once were delivered by social institutions (Beck, 1999; Bennet, 1998).

Social Media 40

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

The possibility of a GSE conservatorship exit has sparked considerable media attention, particularly in housing and mortgage industry circles. Is the not-yet-nominated director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) the key to conservatorship exit? Separately, Trump II has the ability to directly reshape GSE mortgage policies.

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Legislation Housing Campaign Voting 69

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 25, 2025

Many Earth Day events are organized around tree planting events organized by local and state tree advocacy groups. Two bills, House Bill 3798 and Senate Bill 1927, aim to prevent a city from prohibiting the removal of an Ashe Juniper tree. One is planting trees. Not everyone agrees (" Do cedar trees have more rights than homeowners?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

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. . * Later they built an Intermodal Center, providing at the time a bike shop and inter city bus connections too.

Transportation 52

Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Elected Officials 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2025

But the White House cannot erase energy market realities by presidential fiat. Increased cutting of trees in US Forest Service lands (" USDA Opens 59% of Federal Forest for Logging to Manage Fire Risk ," Bloomberg). Plus defunding them. Plus cutting science projects 7.

Regulations 52

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 8, 2017

Some Republicans may balk at some details, but the major thrusts replicate those in budgets the House has passed ever since Republicans gained control in 2010. If the House and Senate can then agree on a resolution, the actual spending and/or tax cuts need only a majority vote in the Senate. Government 101 than perhaps any of you need.

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