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The Challenge of Performance Management in Community Development

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The Performance Management Process Cycle The adoption and implementation of performance management in community development, however, pose a unique challenge due to how these services are structured and organized. In North Carolina, community development is a municipal function for some local governments and a county function for others.

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Earth Day Part 1: DC isn't achieving its sustainability goals wrt waste diversion

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Department of Public Works (DPW) released earlier this year, pushed the target date back eight years. Why so long, so obtuse, about developing a yard waste diversion program? Detached housing neighborhoods tend to generate a lot more yard waste than rowhouse neighborhoods. That's the major reason why DC lags so much.

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FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

Barrett & Greene

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works.

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FORT WORTH: THE TRAIN IS ON THE TRACKS

Barrett & Greene

Back a year ago, for example, we wrote that phase one of the city’s efforts – notably priority-based budgeting (PBB) –involved three departments: police, human resources and transportation and public works.

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Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Nicknamed Justice40, this initiative challenges local governments and nonprofit agencies to actively engage people living in disadvantaged communities in participating in the planning of major infrastructure improvements such as bridges, public transportation, clean air and water initiatives, and more.

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Cook County property taxes

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

urban past since the eighties has featured decreasing levels of public sector funding and involvement with urban affairs, Hennepin County voluntarily took on substantial additional financial and political commitments with this program. HCW began here in 1994 as a public works program initially intended to address declining property values.