GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. It is the first national geographical tool that measures — and releases to the public — cumulative environmental impacts and related public health vulnerability.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

First, the river rises, flooding into streets and houses. Along the Ngong River in Mukuru, one of Nairobi’s slum neighborhoods and home to more than 100,000 people, residents face a dual threat when the rains come. Then the water reaches. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 18, 2023

Creative placemaking is the practice of enhancing a neighborhood’s quality of life through arts, culture, and intentional community development. This practice can take many forms, like visual art installations , performance events , developing permanent brick-and-mortar spaces , and more. Creative placemaking is community-driven.

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GovLoop

JUNE 11, 2024

The concept of evidence-based policymaking — the idea that policies should be developed and refined based on hard data, not just hunches — can play a critical role in helping state and local agencies identify and mitigate systemic issues that undermine government’s ability to serve all constituents. The result?

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 11, 2023

Activating vacant and abandoned properties for climate adaptation offers the ability to create and enhance access to high-quality, affordable housing suitable for a changed climate. Recent white and grey papers have explored the limits and concerns of FEMA’s flood risk map , however, development continues unencumbered in these watersheds.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” Increase health and wellbeing : Addressing problem properties can help reduce crime and improve personal and public health. State laws gives land banks their unique powers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

For more than a year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has supported SMAs with in-house Medicaid expertise to identify unwinding issues and develop solutions to address them. A major part of that is re-certifying the 91 million members currently receiving Medicaid benefits. Figure 1 illustrates the architecture of the solution: Figure 1.

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 16, 2023

Eligible Applicants: Private institutions of higher education Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Unrestricted (i.e.,

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 21, 2022

The article explores how homelessness continues to be a serious social and public health issue in the U.S., and how park and recreation agencies are increasingly helping to support their community members who are experiencing homelessness and housing instability.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 27, 2023

2023 Award Winners: Ethan Fechter-Legget, Lead Research Epidemiologist, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. They have actively improved or implemented processes, initiatives, training, awareness or other efforts that promote DEIA at their agency.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

India has one of the largest developer user bases in the world and the third largest startup network. This network is augmented and supported by large scale government programs like the National Skills Development Center ( NSDC ). And, in 2022 alone, AWS created 1,000 jobs in Singapore.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For nearly a year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has supported SMAs with in-house Medicaid expertise to identify unwinding issues and develop solutions to address them. Scenario 1: The Medicaid agency sends a letter to Martha’s house using the address they have on file. She misses the letter and doesn’t respond in time.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

MARCH 5, 2024

Prior to his service at FEMA, he served as the Director of Preparedness Policy for the White House Homeland Security Council. and a Master’s Degree in Public Health and Homeland Security from the Pennsylvania State University. and a Master’s Degree in Public Health and Homeland Security from the Pennsylvania State University.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 1, 2022

LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. In Michigan, land banks are quasi-governmental entities, created pursuant to Michigan’s Land Bank Fast Track Act (Public Act 258 of 2003), and represent rural and urban communities across the state. “Vacant properties are a statewide issue.

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 19, 2023

Funding recipients will collaborate with community partners to implement and evaluate interventions and develop resources for dissemination to diverse stakeholders. The initiative is part of the Public Health Service Evaluation Fund.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

In fact, a significant new resource on local food system development (discussed below) was released just this morning. Many of the suggestions put forth at the conference related to creating sustainable economic development in food systems by improving connections and access, both from the business and the consumer side.

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We have identified 21 of these problems—different social drivers and determinants of health—and the Community Council is working to foster policies and programs designed to help solve them. Erin Fry Sosne: The Public Health Accreditation Board requires all states to have a state health improvement plan as a quality measure.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 7, 2022

Housing – 12.5%. Public Health – 12.3%. Economic and Workforce Development – 11.1%. Public Safety – 2.3%. Meanwhile, Broward County, Florida is using a little over $26 million to fund affordable housing. Government Operations - 37.6%. Infrastructure – 12.5%. Community Aid 12.3%.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

As the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) begins to wind down, starting April 1, 2023, state Medicaid agencies (SMAs) will have one year to “unwind” temporary COVID-era changes and return to pre-pandemic ways of working.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

providing high quality people spaces within a hospital complex becomes very difficult (" Penn’s new hospital belatedly recognizes pedestrian space is a public health issue "). Hospitals can be strong supporters of community development efforts, but it has to be designed into the program from the outset. HealthLine in Cleveland.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our Council member, Kenyatta Johnson, is now also Council president, and he has enormous power to protect affordable housing in his district and beyond.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

4 Acquire, rehabilitate, and sell or reuse properties; develop plans; and other CDBG-eligible activities. 7 We encourage communities to consider Treasury’s advice to categorize any projects eligible under the pre-existing ARPA SLFRF public health and negative economic impacts eligible use category as such.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 16, 2022

Infectious disease outbreaks led to public health policies and modern sanitation. History shows that when disasters and crises strike, cities often bounce back stronger and more resilient than before. The great Chicago fire famously gave rise to skyscrapers. The devastation of World War II catalyzed unprecedented.

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 16, 2021

Eligibility Private institutions of higher education Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) For profit organizations other than small businesses Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) State governments Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of (..)

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 16, 2021

Applications that propose solely to write a protocol or manual of operations or to develop infrastructure for a clinical trial are not appropriate for this announcement. The subsequent larger trial should have the potential to make a significant impact on public health. Deadline to Apply March 11, 2024

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Partnership for Public Service

AUGUST 9, 2023

One example of high-stakes customer experience was shared by Michele Perez, the assistant deputy secretary of the Office of Field Policy and Management at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Local field offices experienced a sharp rise in people seeking help with housing problems.

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The City Fix

JULY 5, 2024

Every three years, ICLEI hosts the ICLEI World Congress to showcase how subnational actors advance sustainable urban development worldwide. The most recent installment, ICLEI World Congress 2024, held June 18-21 in São Paulo, Brazil, converged over 1,500 global attendees to.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I have to understand how our sheriff’s office operates and what their unique constraints and requirements are vs. that of the court vs. that of animal care and control vs. that of public health,” he said. We had a packed house, and the feedback we got was really positive,” he said.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Homelessness concentrates in cities because there are more people, housing is more expensive, and people migrate to cities because they are more likely to offer social services. Readers have called our attention to the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem , which I haven't yet tracked down ("S," Seattle Times ).

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We’re like an in-house consulting firm of technologists,” Fletcher said. But as somebody in public health, I’ve been working with models my entire career.” So we’re building that community.” The digital services team has significant autonomy in the projects it’s working on, making the work more self-directed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

DC isn't very big on public restrooms, although some federal parks have them (" Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? ," Bloomberg). This is common for many cities--no public restrooms. Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the last few years, there’s been an understandable reassignment of many key communication staff to booster public health campaigns, with few able to prioritize the essential task of updating (now painfully old) policy. So here are the top 6 agenda items to help you focus time and energy on what matters in 2022.

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Grant Central USA

JULY 12, 2023

In addition, a good grant writing class should provide guidance on various types of grants available including corporate, foundation, public health,, and other government grants and awards. Develop a Winning Grant Proposal A quality grant writing class will provide you with the skills to develop a winning grant proposal.

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The City Fix

APRIL 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a disruptive new normal for everyone through shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines. But for the billions of urban poor, these guidelines aren’t just burdensome; they’re essentially impossible. Social distancing is a critically important response. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

This year’s cohort brought forward innovative ideas that will improve access to care, provide actionable health equity data, expand access to medical transport, and help people without a home reach housing and health goals. Chan School of Public Health , Mass General Brigham , Philips , Rock Health , and ScaleHealth.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Fortunately this is an infrequent occurrence.

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