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Library Cracks the Code on How To Tell Stories to Stakeholders: They Use Email! Here’s How Their Targeted Newsletter Works

Super Library Marketing

Her department works with others to select stories that reflect how the library collaborates on community initiatives such as economic and workforce development, building regional partnerships, and creating innovative services and programs of value to all community members. The new campaign is in its second phase.

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Building a local economy versus "economic development": Gambling

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The research, commissioned by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, found that $2.4bn spent by people gambling online in New Jersey in 2022 “decreased New Jersey’s economic activity by about $180m”. Economic development versus building a local economy. Online gambling is a perfect example of the difference between the two.

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Climate Action: Backed by Budget

Barrett & Greene

The City took this discovery to heart and applied it to , the development of its 2022 budget. Local governments – many with the best of intentions -- face a perennial disconnect between elected officials; sustainability, resilience, and equity offices; and budget and finance leaders in aligning resources with climate initiatives.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. But parks agencies and libraries aren't set up to do this purposively.

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Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To stoke development in that area, a process that has been going on for about 20 years--giving the rights to develop to the team owner, which is the trend in stadium and arena development. Campaign flyers for the Bring Chicago Home referendum at a march to the polls event March 9, 2024, in Chicago. That's 6 months!

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The parents have been hyper about speeding cars, and the neighborhood and our District 6 Councilmember is more concerned about traffic safety these days because a nearby elementary school had a traffic fatality last year (" Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023).

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes. Above: Multiplicity bus.