Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And, speaking of learning opportunities, I’m thrilled to be joined today by one of this year’s education session presenters, Sydney Elliott, MBA, CPRP. Sydney will be presenting on teen engagement at this year’s conference, and I’m excited for the opportunity to learn more about her work and get a preview of her session on today’s episode.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In response, ANDP’s board of directors unanimously voted to redirect all organization programming (housing development, lending, and advocacy) toward combating metro Atlanta’s devastating tide of foreclosures. ANDP’s work has primarily benefitted low-income families, first-time homebuyers, African Americans, and female heads of household.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. Since signing on as city manager for fast-growing Hutto in 2022, Earp has leveraged his passions for leadership, finance and education to help reshape the city’s operations with an emphasis on collaboration.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

In 2022, the city reduced the street mph to 20mph for most neighborhood streets, which in a car oriented city, is at times controversial (" Salt Lake City Council lowers speed limit to 20 mph on 70% of city streets in unanimous vote ," " Salt Lake City swaps first 20 mph speed limit sign in initiative for safer streets ," Salt Lake Tribune ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

I make this point often that planning engagements are set up to fail from the outset because planners have to achieve both city (or county wide goals like economic development) as well as neighborhood specific objectives, while residents tend to take responsibility only for the latter.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

," (2013) Civic assets as a network The "change isn't that simple" entry discusses multiple cities with wide-ranging anchor project development with branding similarities to the "Signature Streets" proposal. Other cities have differently named similar organizations. Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 7, 2024

“A Starting Point” is a civic engagement platform designed to facilitate bipartisan communication and connection between the public and elected officials. Through video interviews and discussions, it aims to create a more informed electorate and foster civic engagement.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Some parks or recreation centers might have arts production facilities like a kiln for ceramics and arts education programs. Educational programs. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Some parks might have an amphitheater for music and theater presentations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Some parks or recreation centers might have arts production facilities like a kiln for ceramics and arts education programs. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Some parks might have an amphitheater for music and theater presentations. presidential election.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To address the nation’s AI skills gap, AWS and Jabatan Pendidikan Politeknik & Kolej Komuni (JPPKK), an agency under Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), teamed up to introduce new training initiatives targeting both educators and students to uplift Malaysia’s TVET (technical and vocational education and training) community.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. OWS reached citizens in general, but also engaged the entire world in a domestic matter. The new media on which these early rallies were organized are significant because of the people that became engaged.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

and making it possible for them to engage, respond, and share the President’s speech themselves in new and different ways.” And finally, keep engaging with the White House: We’re listening” (Goldman). Creating opportunities for engagement after the State of the Union. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

10] Making things even more complex, it is clear from the recent election campaign that Trump II will also look to support what is perhaps its biggest voting bloc: non-college-educated households, which argues against changes that may reduce the GSE’s role in providing subsidized, borrower-friendly mortgages to those households.

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