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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"Priority-based budgeting will allow city officials to regain control of the budget." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process. This will help better manage the broad number of services we provide, while recognizing our budget constraints.”

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Compensating Community Participation

Social Pinpoint

However, by offering compensation, such as covering taxi or Uber fares, the local council can make it easier for participants to attend by arranging transportation bookings for community members. For instance, looking at our scenario, some individuals might be unable to attend the proposed meeting due to travel expenses.

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CreatorUp harnesses AWS AI tools to scale digital content development

AWS Public Sector Blog

The CreateTrack tool , a one-stop system for budgeting, project tracking, communication, and invoicing. When working with Daisy, users follow multistep prompts to build out the course content needed—whether it’s writing a script, adding images, creating an avatar, translating into specific languages, or building quiz questions.

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Award-Winning Library Marketing Team’s Advice for Promotional Success: “Try New Things. Fail. Try More Things.”

Super Library Marketing

Meghan’s road to award-winning library marketer began in the 7th grade when she volunteered to shelve books for her hometown library, the Brielle Public Library on the Jersey Shore. Our social media manager, Vianey Becerra, was made full-time, and translation duties were added because Vianey is bilingual.” “A So that was challenging.”

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A Conversation with Sheryll Cashin: “White Space, Black Hood”

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The book outlines three pathways to breaking down the caste system: changing the relationship of government with descendants from punitive to caring, empowering descendants as assets and empowering them as change agents, and investing resources and transferring assets to Black neighborhoods.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

And I still get to do some of the things I enjoyed as an academic, such as reading and translating Latin American literature. I didn’t expect to be hired so quickly, and in February, I started working as a Development Director with an organization with an operating budget of over $1 million dollars.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Participatory Budgeting initiatives. Its inaction also translates into a financial loss for the community. Unlike DC's "constituency service" programs by Councilmembers and the Mayor's Office, these initiatives are designed to support DIY self-help efforts driven independently of elected officials.