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RVP 2024: Philanthropy and Community Revitalization

Center for Community Progress

By strengthening community capacity, engaging diverse voices, and addressing barriers to health, we are working to transform systems and policies that perpetuate disparities, ultimately promoting healthy, thriving communities throughout the state. To achieve this, we prioritize equity, integrity, humility, and commitment in everything we do.

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7 Ways Faith Organizations Are Making Cities More Sustainable and Equitable

The City Fix

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.

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Why Is Program Evaluation So Important For Nonprofits?

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

Nonprofit organizations provide programs that influence our country by impacting our communities in 3 key ways: Cultivation and Sustainability Nonprofit organizations are the embodiment of human compassion. Catalysts Nonprofit missions are effective because they often begin at the grassroots level. And we need them. Desperately.

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

A Library Writer's Blog

This book focuses on how academic and research library workers can engage in advocacy and policy work at different levels ( local, regional, and national ) , and share s strategies on advocating for specific policies/issues impacting academic/research libraries.

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Looking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities

Center for Community Progress

The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania. The garden is a strong example of sustainability in urban settings, and its mural shares an important piece of community history.

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

Cohorts of grassroots community leaders from Syracuse, New York ; Braddock/East Pittsburgh/North Braddock (BEN), Pennsylvania ; and LoĂ­za, Puerto Rico will collectively learn revitalization strategies for neighborhoods struggling with vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser LoĂ­za, Puerto Rico.

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

The City Fix

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.