A Library Writer's Blog

MAY 4, 2023

With recent book challenges on the rise, we are now seeing new issues that we are facing on a daily basis. This year we are looking for new ideas, programs, and sessions on what you have experienced in your library as we all continue to navigate library issues in this post-pandemic era.

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Community Development Development 40

Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 18, 2022

Kendi and Mayor Lightfoot join Tonika Lewis Johnson and national philanthropic leaders as keynotes at national community development conference. August 18, 2022 – The Center for Community Progress (Community Progress) is honored to announce Dr. Ibram X. WASHINGTON, D.C.

Community Development 52

Community Development Leadership Development Education 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

Acting as the county’s principle guiding document for governance, community development, infrastructure and service delivery, the county’s strategic plan serves as a foundation for the development of a corporate business plan, departmental business plans, the county master plan, and priority-based budget results and budgeting, itself.

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Budgeting Voting Communications 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

FWIW, the book Streets of Hope: the Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood , published in 1999, describes a similar effort in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Over 30 years, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative has developed not quite 300 units of housing. The two purchases left the trust $1.2 million in debt.

Housing 52

Housing Development Community Development Government 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

The Friends of the Salt Lake City Library, which covers all of the libraries in the city, is particularly good (" Outdoor library book sale as an opportunity for "social bridging"/triangulation "). While out of date in terms of current programs, the book Neighbor Power describes the first couple decades of the program.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials Engagement Advocacy 52

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

Together, these form the guiding documents for governance, community development, infrastructure and service delivery when our county’s 19 departments develop annual and multi-year business plans, uniquely designed to align with the Corporate Business Plan, against which their success will be monitored and measured.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Strategic Planning Implementation Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

In some respects, it's merely an extension of points (without the sociological criticism) made in the paper, " The City as an Entertainment Machine " (later expanded into a book), which extends Growth Machine arguments in terms of the post-industrial city and the shifting of focus on knowledge industries, leisure activities, and place qualities.

Management 52

Management Nonprofit Parks And Recreation Development 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives.

Legislation 93

Legislation Housing Regulations Operations 93

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

In what may set the record for the longest single paragraph in the statute books, G.S. 160D-1311 and authorized counties to engage in community development and act as housing authorities. Regardless of the housing authority structure, the powers are vast. Powers of housing authorities. to own, hold, clear, and improve property.

Local Government 40

Local Government Housing Government Laws 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Creating a media production community. As pointed out in the Post article, if you want to develop a functioning if not thriving film community, you need to support its development, and a film festival is an element that does.

Development 52

Development Communications Community Development Operations 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

Photos by Bob Haas Second, people with choices did move into the neighborhood some, and unlike the in-migrants described in the movie " Flag Wars " in the Old Towne East neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, they were very much focused on working with the people in the community, not being disconnected "urban pioneers."

Housing 52

Housing Economic Development Development Community Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, there are many more pieces on this broad topic as I was trying to figure things out. -- " The community development approach and the revitalization of DC's H Street corridor: congruent or oppositional approaches? Park Pride, the Atlanta area friends of the parks organization, has an annual conference.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Note that the in Cleveland supported the development of the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit line serving a number of neighborhoods, including the University Circle district and Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospital system and Downtown. Why not create one as part of a community-serving hospital?

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Public Health Development Education 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

That didn't happen, but did with an campus adjacent development--Monroe Street Market--on land owned by CUA, but creating a competing retail center against the 12th Street commercial district, which still limps along today, 10 years after the opening of Monroe Street Market.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Education Development Laws 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Building neighborhood confidence/The Myth of Community Development. He mentioned the book by Rolf Goetze. He then mentioned a New York Times Magazine article, " The Myth of Community Development ," by Nicholas Lemann about why community development corporations mostly didn't succeed at improving neighborhoods.

Transportation 52

Transportation Community Development Housing Urban Planning 52

Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Memphis, Tennessee CRF Fellows Phyllis Duckett How did you first get involved in supporting revitalization efforts in your community? As of right now I am just getting started in community development Whats one thing you love about your community? What are three words that you would use to describe your community?

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Parks And Recreation Nonprofit Grassroots Engagement 52