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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities. Implementing policy and practice changes that address vacancy is an enormous task, and many communities can’t do it alone.

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Why Is Program Evaluation So Important For Nonprofits?

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

Catalysts Nonprofit missions are effective because they often begin at the grassroots level. As these organizations work to engage their community members on an individual level and meet their unique needs, the “unseen” becomes “seen.” Implement the changes. And then another. And another. Analyze the results. Time to Shine!

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Publication: Championing Leaders of Color

Center for Community Progress

Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals. Through classroom engagements, school partnerships, and other creative ways to expose young people to the work, community development organizations can plant the seeds for future leaders to grow.

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Upskilling Your Workforce for GenAI

GovLoop

It’s very much a grassroots approach that encourages innovation from the ground up,” he said. Sometimes leadership roles are unclear and limited resources make it hard to implement AI broadly. Widescale GenAI literacy leads to more creativity and adaptability and better government services, said Holmes.

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Climate Justice from an Intersectional Perspective w/ Osprey Orielle Lake, Exec. Dir. of WECAN

Policy Chats

Osprey was the visionary behind the International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit, which brought together 100 global women leaders to draft and implement a 'Women’s Climate Action Agenda', and co-founded the International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative (IWECI), the precursor initiative of WECAN International.

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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

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. Social media has played an integral part in grassroots communication and participation. OWS reached citizens in general, but also engaged the entire world in a domestic matter.