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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

Local councils and state agencies are increasingly using targeted outreach, accessible digital engagement platforms, and culturally appropriate methods to reach underrepresented groups. This is apparent especially for those who may face mobility or transportation challenges.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions. Understanding Proposal Budgets When you search for potential funders, it is beneficial to have a sense of how much your project will cost.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

Virtual Tools Expand Outreach. “We That allowed the city to use multiple types of outreach to share updates with people as the project developed. Constituents don’t have to pay transportation costs to commute to a meeting, and there are fewer custodial and security expenses when meetings are fully virtual. Get the guide.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

Virtual Tools Expand Outreach “We were able to get so much more information,” Skowera said. “We That allowed the city to use multiple types of outreach to share updates with people as the project developed. You’re not just budgeting for the construction, but for the maintenance, including personnel,” she said.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Salt Lake City Transportation Department pop up booth at Poplar Grove Park. Across the board, implementation is dependent on future funding, which Larsen said was requested in this year’s capital improvement budget.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Special Funding. Although many of the schools do art festivals in the Spring, doing great projects as fundraisers. but it fell off.

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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

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Participatory Budgeting initiatives. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.