Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 15, 2024

Students, teachers and community members across the country have been participating in hundreds of events to recognize Civic Learning Week. This annual event raises awareness about how “ civic learning is needed to ensure each and every person across this country has the necessary tools to engage as members of our self-governing society.”

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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. Campaign flyers for the Bring Chicago Home referendum at a march to the polls event March 9, 2024, in Chicago.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you’ve been fortunate enough to experience this conference in the past, you know that this is the premier event for park and recreation professionals seeking to grow their network, check out some of the latest and greatest products and services, and take advantage of top-tier learning opportunities. 10 parks are nominated. Niagara Water.

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zencity

MAY 1, 2022

While this concept used to be solely restricted to in-person activities, the nature of community engagement has shifted over recent years—it can take place in person or online or can be a one-time event or ongoing activity. Comment Threads : sharing context and gathering feedback is part of the process, but so is commentary and discussion.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 26, 2023

On July 20, the Partnership for Public Service announced that, after weeks of voting, Megan Meacham, Allison Hutchings, Sarah O’Donnell and the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program Team won the 2023 Samuel J. More than 75,000 votes were cast to determine this year’s winner. Heyman Service to America Medals® People’s Choice Award.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The discussion of Equinox and Brooklyn Army Terminal also covers community building and camaraderie amongst the artists, sharing equipment and help depending on needs, organizing events, etc. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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AccessE11

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A satisfied citizenry is more likely to engage with the community, trust their local government, and participate in civic responsibilities like voting. Furthermore, citizen outreach can be integrated into the system to periodically update the community about new initiatives, upcoming events, or important announcements.

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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. During the workshops, city projects are hung up on the wall and residents vote with stickers on which should be prioritized in the budget. Earp speaks at a Fourth of July event in Hutto in 2023. ‘I

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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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A Library Writer's Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

Chapter Topics We invite proposals on the following topics or any other partnership that your library has participated in: Section One Academic Departments or Co-Curricular programs (such as student publications like student newspaper, broadcasting, etc) Student Success Services or Academic Support staff (including, but not limited to Student Wellness/Counseling (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But it's hard for a locally elected Mayor to buck the people who vote, and make such a pathbreaking long term decision. This does create tensions between anti-development forces among residents, but it's something that has to be overtly addressed. Another rendering of the proposed Sphere in London.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 16, 2024

It features urban greening and sustainable transport, arts events and smart technology, sports, recreation and revitalised laneways, tapping into what’s special about Glenferrie and its community. As a product of closing the loop, this plan showcases extensive community feedback, research and analysis.

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Social Pinpoint

JUNE 18, 2023

This project proved to be a resounding success, with 190 fantastic entries received and more than 9000 votes from the community. These in-person events are all about bringing the Council staff directly to the community to spark meaningful conversations and gather further valuable insights. 18+ Photography Winner – Matt Cann 2.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If you were engaged civically, you attended city council meetings, voted, took an active role in civic organizations, or helped to establish community organizations. Today’s blog takes you through both the challenges and the successes of social media’s impact on civic engagement and why it has so much to offer local government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

Personally, I think an arena is probably an acceptable choice, especially as it likely will increase transit ridership to events--the team estimates that the 70% of trips to the current arena will drop to 40%, with the much better transit location of Market East. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Often encountered by the city manager, the City Council helps propose and vote on items of interest. An interesting section includes how to invite the mayor to your event. You can also get information on meetings, notices, and reports. City Council : This is the official site of the City Council for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

Believing that Mayor Bloomberg will be reelected for a third time, she uses her blog as a keeper of reasons for why not to vote for the incumbent. Clyde Haberman takes on compelling events and people in the news. Troy Artist is the blogger here and watcher of all things Bloomberg. The Chief’s Corner.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

Second, if the consideration is in the form of public service, the conveyance must be conditioned on the continued use for that purpose by the recipient, and the property must revert back to the local government in the event the recipient ceases to use it for that purpose. 160D-1311, and its effect remains the same: counties must look to G.S.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. ” Two, as several government officials told me, issues related to subverted price competition in housing and mortgage markets generally have little, if any, impact on election voting outcomes.

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Super Library Marketing

JUNE 5, 2023

I had been invited to speak at an event put on by the Illinois Library Association. I was set to meet some of the library marketers who conspired to bring me to their event. The key to this story is how we were able to convince a Chicago suburban community to vote in favor of a referendum that would raise their taxes,” said Sue. “I

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Librarian.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This still needs to get voted on by membership at ALA but should pass. the past few events, I’ve paid several hundreds of dollars to attend a handful of Council meetings. Bylaws change ensuring access to governance opportunities for ALA members This was the big project I was working on. Don’t love it.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

In order for a social movement driven by social media to live, or to be an event, the activism must be displayed not only through social media but also have a presence in the world on public display in plain view. Even better, it permits bypassing the traditional media with their message in real time as an event occurs.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez emceed the event, and thanked the nearly 400 guests for helping pay tribute to the Sammies honorees and spotlighting the value of public service. People’s Choice Award: Josh Josa, U.S. Agency for International Development.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“We are proud to deepen our close collaboration with AWS on this journey to accelerate AI adoption in polytechnics and community colleges, through initiatives like the AWS DeepRacer event in 2023 where over 500 students of all skill levels gained hands-on machine learning experience.”

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 21, 2025

A vote approving an economic development contract or commitment must be taken in open session. The same is true of votes or other final actions that approve economic development expenditures, such as expenses related to marketing the locality, holding business networking events, or engaging professional services for business recruitment.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2024 has been a tumultuous year: More than half the worlds population went to the ballot box some voting for radical change extraordinary weather events have devastated communities and countries have been rocked by continued violent conflict.

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The Lowe Down

APRIL 19, 2023

By comparing the levels of domestic violence between areas that voted for Trump and Clinton, we shed light on whether political frustration leads to an increased frequency of domestic violence calls. During the 2016 election, Charleston County voted for Clinton with a slim majority of 50.6%.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. Even before that, at least 26 Republicans were touting the benefits of the measure to their constituents while neglecting to mention they voted against it. As soon as they took office, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats passed the $1.9

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Those are destination events, not events in a local park. Parks will also do ticketed events or rent out their space to big music festivals like Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago.) These too tend to be destination events. Plein Air events. Special lighting events. Destination events and problems.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 15, 2022

Representative to the Organization for American States were submitted to the Senate nearly a year ago and are still awaiting votes. Recent events in Afghanistan and Ukraine highlight the importance of empowering ambassadors to convey U.S. Both the nominations of Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India and Francisco O. Mora for the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Those are destination events, not events in a local park. Parks will also do ticketed events or rent out their space to big music festivals like Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago.) These too tend to be destination events. Plein Air events. Special lighting events. Destination events and problems.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A presidential administration’s ability to directly manage the mortgage programs and policies of the GSEs was never expected or intended but arose from a series of two unlikely events more than a decade apart.

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