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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

JULY 3, 2024

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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Grassroots Legislation Strategic Planning Leadership

RVP 2024: Philanthropy and Community Revitalization

Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Olivia Barrow Strauss, Vice President, Neighborhood Development for Corporate Responsibility, JPMorganChase : Drawing from our philanthropic, business, and research and policy expertise, we advance a holistic strategy to drive inclusive economic growth. These local partnerships play a critical role in informing our community investments.

Housing

Housing Nonprofit Local Government Sustainability

Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 31, 2018

Kageyama is an author, whose book For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places was recognized in 2012 as a Top 10 Book in urban planning, design and development.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Grassroots Urban Planning Community Development

Publication: Championing Leaders of Color

Center for Community Progress

APRIL 26, 2022

Community development unites people to take collective action to build stronger, more resilient places to live. Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals.

Community Development

Community Development Grassroots Leadership Cultivation

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

A Library Writer's Blog

JULY 5, 2023

This book focuses on how academic and research library workers can engage in advocacy and policy work at different levels ( local, regional, and national ) , and share s strategies on advocating for specific policies/issues impacting academic/research libraries.

Advocacy

Advocacy Grassroots Social Media Education

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

Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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.

Grassroots

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

Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

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 Loíza, Puerto Rico.

Stewardship

Stewardship Grassroots Urban Planning Leadership

7 Ways Faith Organizations Are Making Cities More Sustainable and Equitable

The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

Sustainability

Sustainability Grassroots Community Engagement Economic Development

Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

ChopChop Family is an initiative promoting healthier eating for families, and greater engagement by children in preparing meals. Are there children in the house? They published a quarterly magazine, ChopChop.

Campaign

Campaign Grassroots Engagement Operations

No Safe Journeys for Women: Why Mobility Systems in African Cities Are Failing Women’s Needs

The City Fix

MARCH 8, 2024

For a woman living in an African city, public transport can be a daunting experience. Women usually plan their trips in advance, and consider a multitude of factors before setting out: What is the safest way to reach the bus.

Public Transportation

Public Transportation Transportation Grassroots Community Engagement

Upskilling Your Workforce for GenAI

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Especially for organizations with relatively small development teams, GenAI “is where the immediate, low-hanging fruit is,” said Tony Holmes, Practice Lead for Solutions Consultants, Public Sector in North America, at Pluralsight, which provides skills training through an online data-analytics platform. And then there’s workforce culture.

Grassroots

Grassroots Leadership Public Sector Implementation

Meet the 2024-25 Cohort of Community Revitalization Fellows

Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Each year, Community Progress welcomes grassroots community leaders to our Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF) program, where they collectively learn how to help their neighborhoods tackle vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. Whats one thing you love about your community?

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Nonprofit Grassroots Engagement

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

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots

Public Administration Today

Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

RVP 2024: Philanthropy and Community Revitalization

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Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023

Publication: Championing Leaders of Color

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

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

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

7 Ways Faith Organizations Are Making Cities More Sustainable and Equitable

Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

No Safe Journeys for Women: Why Mobility Systems in African Cities Are Failing Women’s Needs

Upskilling Your Workforce for GenAI

Meet the 2024-25 Cohort of Community Revitalization Fellows

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.

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