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Grassroots Action Against Polluted Skies: How Jakarta’s Urban Villages Tackle Air Pollution

The City Fix

JUNE 14, 2024

On a Sunday afternoon in September 2023, a group of about 30 individuals, including a group of mostly female neighbors from nine kampungs (a common term for “urban villages” or “informal settlements” across multiple languages and nations in Southeast Asia).

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Grassroots Public Transportation Housing Transportation

Bridging Policy Gaps with Inclusive Data w/ Candice Mays

Policy Chats

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

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. in English Education from New York University.

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Grassroots Public Policy Education Nonprofit

How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2022

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 goal is to create a world in which everyone, everywhere can lead a life of dignity and opportunity.

Advocacy

Advocacy Nonprofit Campaign Public Sector

Creative Placemaking in Loíza, Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

JUNE 22, 2023

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. The Loíza fellows all shared the importance of cultural preservation.

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Grassroots Education Leadership Community Development

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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Quote on housing that's very apt: "As demand for housing rises, Philadelphia’s neighborhoods can either remain affordable or remain low-density. They cannot do both"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 25, 2024

I haven't figured out how to write it up, but Salt Lake City and County have invested in a lot of social infrastructure like libraries and recreation centers on the west side, but they haven't been developed in a manner that promotes the development of centers. Neighbors used the guise of housing justice to block the development.

Housing

Housing Parks And Recreation Development Grassroots

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

Coming Soon: Iron Sharpens Iron

Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 12, 2021

Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed.

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Grassroots Community Development Development

Coming Soon: Iron Sharpens Iron

Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 12, 2021

Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed. Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed.

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Grassroots Community Development Development

WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I Grants - March 31, 2022

iGrantWriters

JANUARY 25, 2022

irrigation and water districts, county soil conservation districts) to submit proposals for Phase I activities to develop a watershed group, complete watershed restoration planning activities, and design watershed management projects. See Section C.4. Eligible Projects for a more comprehensive description of eligible activities.A

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Grassroots Management 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

It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places? Ironically one of the influences is a program developed in Pennsylvania, called Elm Street.

Housing

Housing Community Development Development Economic Development

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

A Library Writer's Blog

JULY 5, 2023

OTSP memo on open access ) Subject Heading Changes United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Workforce Development & more !

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.

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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

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

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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

How to Move DevOps from Disarray to Unity

GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

An agency’s initial forays into integrating their development and operations teams can bear fruit quickly, leading to better quality software produced at a faster clip. This introduces substantial friction into the development process, as organizations are forced to develop manual processes to work around the lack of integration.

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Grassroots Development Security Operations

Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A couple of older books in this vein, are The Town that Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food , about the development of a more locally based food economy in Hardwick, Vermont (" Frontlines of a food revolution ," Los Angeles Times ), and Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing the Way We Eat , which features (..)

Campaign

Campaign Grassroots Engagement Operations

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.

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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

In Sub-Saharan Africa, Nature-Based Solutions Take Root

The City Fix

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For the 21 million residents of Lagos, Nigeria, climate change is not a distant concept it is a current reality. Over the past decade, the city has experienced devastating floods, exacerbated by the loss of over half of its wetlands.

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Grassroots Local Government Public Health Security

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.

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Grassroots Action Against Polluted Skies: How Jakarta’s Urban Villages Tackle Air Pollution

Bridging Policy Gaps with Inclusive Data w/ Candice Mays

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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

Creative Placemaking in Loíza, Puerto Rico

Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Quote on housing that's very apt: "As demand for housing rises, Philadelphia’s neighborhoods can either remain affordable or remain low-density. They cannot do both"

RVP 2024: Philanthropy and Community Revitalization

Coming Soon: Iron Sharpens Iron

Coming Soon: Iron Sharpens Iron

WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I Grants - March 31, 2022

Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023

Publication: Championing Leaders of Color

It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

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

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

How to Move DevOps from Disarray to Unity

Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Upskilling Your Workforce for GenAI

Meet the 2024-25 Cohort of Community Revitalization Fellows

In Sub-Saharan Africa, Nature-Based Solutions Take Root

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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