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Bridging Policy Gaps with Inclusive Data w/ Candice Mays

Policy Chats

Alongside a diverse professional background in grassroots nonprofit organization management, development, and grant making, she spent three years as a literacy teacher with the New York City Department of Education after receiving her M.A. in English Education from New York University.

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Creative Placemaking in Loíza, Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

Loíza residents, like the grassroots leaders participating in CRF, have worked hard to reclaim some of these properties as sites of community and culture. Still other spaces in development: it will be the site of a future Bomba dance studio. Over the course of three days, the fellows also toured other creative placemaking projects.

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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

AWS Public Sector Blog

Whether lobbying political leaders in world capitals or running grassroots campaigns in local communities, ONE encourages governments to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Our donors and supporters are crucial to our work. They come from every walk of life and from across the political spectrum.

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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

One highlight has been the generous grant of over $1 million from JP Morgan Chase to support our Developers of Color initiative. This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities.

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CFP: Advocacy and Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers: Perspectives and Strategies #ACRL #ACRLPublication

A Library Writer's Blog

The sections of the book are tentatively divided as the following: Section I: Overviews of Public Policy Issues Impacting Academic and Research Libraries Accessibility Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HIGH) Artificial Intelligence Broadband Access/Speed Controlled Digital Lending Copyright (e.g.

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

Cohorts of grassroots community leaders from Syracuse, New York ; Braddock/East Pittsburgh/North Braddock (BEN), Pennsylvania ; and Loíza, Puerto Rico will collectively learn revitalization strategies for neighborhoods struggling with vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser

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Looking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities

Center for Community Progress

Each community cohort also receive a $10,000 grant to develop and execute their own creative placemaking projects. The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania.