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Using Data to Prevent the Loss of Home Equity in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Outreach and public education should be targeted both by neighborhood and by the characteristics and vulnerabilities of particular homeowners. Provide zoning-related education. Coordinate across systems to avoid unintended harm. Some at-risk properties were recently rezoned to allow greater residential density.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

153A-255 states: “Each county shall provide social service programs pursuant to Chapter 108A and Chapter 111 and may otherwise undertake, sponsor, organize, engage in, and support other social service programs intended to further the health, welfare, education, employment, safety, comfort, and convenience of its citizens” (emphasis added).

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013). Tool: Overcoming challenges to coordination of the group. Fully autonomous groups, however, encourage a lack of coordination and continuity (Tarrow, 1998).