Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

The key is to find a method that is sustainable over the long term – meaning it is easy to update and make changes. If you want a streamlined approach to manage your recurring checklists and procedures, this might just be right for you. It makes updating your policies a total pain – take it from my experience.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

But with active management and promotion (the kind of stuff I write about frequently, e.g., " Revisiting assistance programs to get people biking: 18 programs "), there could be way more cyclists in that area, because it is a foundational bikeway, over 20 miles long, covering much of Davis County and into Weber County. That part was cool.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

your sustainability plan). If you don’t have a way to keep the project going without additional grant funding, many foundations will not give you a grant because they prefer to fund initiatives that have a chance for a lasting, sustained impact. Do you provide direct services to individuals, or are you an advocacy organization?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. The Creek Management Plan provides a number of recommendations for the Creek within the Park. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. national parks are trying to go carbon-free.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

CRH is the only 501(c)(3) in Puerto Rico dedicated to leveraging vacant and abandoned properties as assets for building sustainable communities. Their specialties include urban planning, public policy, landscape design, permaculture, and sustainable land stewardship advocacy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I think that parks, libraries, sustainable mobility programs, and other civic assets are potential touchpoints for civic engagement and participation. But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. Pedestrian advocacy organizations like Feet First in Seattle have provided a great deal of support to Walk to School efforts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

. -- " The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ," 2017 -- " Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland ," International Journal of Sustainable Transportation , 2018 When I first (..)

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Grant Central USA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Why is grant writing crucial for nonprofit organizations' sustainability and growth? Grant writing is indispensable for the sustainability and growth of nonprofit organizations. In summary, grant writing is the lifeblood of nonprofit sustainability and growth.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, the chair, was someone I met through bike advocacy, and in 2010, as a member of the Planning Board, he invited me to present on " best practice suburban bicycle planning " at the Montgomery County Planning smart growth series, based on the work I was doing at the time in Baltimore County. It's not corrupt--well, not usually.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 1, 2020

In other words, we either spruik the benefits of the neo-liberal, new public management framework of the past 40 years or advocate and even in some cases warmly predict the return of “socialism” or “big” government. Might the choice palette be more appetising than that sterile binary? The pattern seems to be the same.

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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. So in Spring 2022, I decided to leave my academic job at the end of the semester. build in assessment practices to identify problems (i.e.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Jacaranda Health , a Kenya-based nonprofit organization, is on a mission to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths by deploying low-cost, sustainable solutions that improve the quality of care in government health systems. How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This is the basis of the concept of "transportation demand management." For the most part, US transportation policy says that sustainable mobility is a good thing to do, everything in practice and funding prioritizes automobility, and makes sustainable mode support optional, not required. That's why the SF policy is so novel.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Seattle's Feet First advocacy group is a great resource for such programs. Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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A Library Writer's Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But how do we define, cultivate, and sustain positive and healthy work environments, particularly in libraries which can be under-resourced, unappreciated or devalued, or even toxic? ALAO seeks chapter submissions for a volume entitled Building and Sustaining Positive and Healthy Work Environments.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Harris predicts partnering and cooperation will grow in the coming year: “There will be more regional collaboration and engagement with communities and stakeholders within a community on sustainability initiatives. Harris says inclusion and equity are being prioritized within sustainability topics as the New Year approaches.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. But even in the best agencies, a lot of the time sustainable mobility and urban design elements are overlooked, or removed from plans because of the cost.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2025

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.

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