The Grassroots Movement That Built Puerto Rico’s First Community-Owned Microgrid
Next City
JUNE 10, 2023
In the small mountain town of Adjuntas, an "energy insurrection" is building a model for clean, reliable power across the island.
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From A Vacant, City-Owned Lot To Chicago’s First Indigenous Garden
Next City
AUGUST 22, 2022
Chicago’s Native youth are reclaiming a contaminated, city-owned lot as part of a grassroots Indigenous land restoration movement.
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When Reparations Grow From the Grassroots
Next City
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Until federal reparations happen, local organizations across the country are stepping up to account for the harm and legacy of enslavement and systemic racism.
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Grassroots Action Against Polluted Skies: How Jakarta’s Urban Villages Tackle Air Pollution
The City Fix
JUNE 14, 2024
On a Sunday afternoon in September 2023, a group of about 30 individuals, including a group of mostly female neighbors from nine kampungs (a common term for “urban villages” or “informal settlements” across multiple languages and nations in Southeast Asia).
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The Federal Reserve’s Reckoning on Racial Equity
Next City
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
What the recent changes at the Federal Reserve mean for Black and Brown job-seekers, and how those changes are rooted as much in grassroots organizing as they are in macroeconomic theory.
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Bridging Policy Gaps with Inclusive Data w/ Candice Mays
Policy Chats
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Alongside a diverse professional background in grassroots nonprofit organization management, development, and grant making, she spent three years as a literacy teacher with the New York City Department of Education after receiving her M.A. in English Education from New York University. in English Education from New York University.
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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 11, 2022
Whether lobbying political leaders in world capitals or running grassroots campaigns in local communities, ONE encourages governments to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Our goal is to create a world in which everyone, everywhere can lead a life of dignity and opportunity.
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Creative Placemaking in Loíza, Puerto Rico
Center for Community Progress
JUNE 22, 2023
Loíza residents, like the grassroots leaders participating in CRF, have worked hard to reclaim some of these properties as sites of community and culture. They found solidarity in seeing a fellow community of artists, grassroots leaders, and community activists do a lot with very little.
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NLC Celebrates Black History Month
NLC (National League of Cities)
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Anthony: Recognizing Black history has grown from a weeklong grassroots recognition of the contributions of Black social, cultural and political leaders in 1926 to a monthlong international celebration today. From NLC CEO & Executive Director Clarence E.
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Ep. 66 - Diversity, Inclusion & Small Business Opportunities with Pennsylvania's Kerry Kirkland
Decisions That Matter
JANUARY 9, 2023
The discussion covers ways that agencies can use grassroots organizations, community engagement and sheer determination to overcome obstacles and create a procurement process that is inclusive, expansive and fortified in supporting historically underutilized businesses.
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People create cities [placemaking]
Social Pinpoint
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Placemaking often involves grassroots innovation by locals, who come together to collaborate, re-purpose space and promote better. Placemaking is fostered by reinventing public spaces to create a sense of ‘place’ and activate under-utilized parts of cities, often through small-scale intervention and community collaboration.
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Threat Hunting Masterclass Session 2: Threat Hunting And Living Off The (Cyber) Landscape
CarahCast
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The second session takes a grassroots view of the threat hunting and hunt forward missions specifically looking at live fire scenarios and views from the front where convergence of IT, OT and IOT networks have been compromised.
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Ep. 66 - Diversity, Inclusion & Small Business Opportunities with Pennsylvania's Kerry Kirkland
Decisions That Matter
JANUARY 9, 2023
The discussion covers ways that agencies can use grassroots organizations, community engagement and sheer determination to overcome obstacles and create a procurement process that is inclusive, expansive and fortified in supporting historically underutilized businesses.
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WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I Grants - March 31, 2022
iGrantWriters
JANUARY 25, 2022
Eligibility Applicant Eligibility for Existing Watershed GroupsIn order to be eligible to receive an award as an Existing Watershed Group, the applicant must be an eligible entity as described immediately above and must be either: An Existing Watershed Group, (i.e., Eligible Projects for a more comprehensive description of eligible activities.A
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Coming Soon: Iron Sharpens Iron
Iron Sharpens Iron
JANUARY 12, 2021
Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed.
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Coming Soon: Iron Sharpens Iron
Iron Sharpens Iron
JANUARY 12, 2021
Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed. Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed.
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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress
Center for Community Progress
JULY 3, 2024
We recently launched the fourth cycle of our Community Revitalization Fellowship to help resident-leaders from Lafayette, Louisiana; Memphis, Tennessee; and Rochester, New York learn from one another’s grassroots revitalization efforts.
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Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023
Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends
JULY 31, 2018
He is an internationally sought-after community development consultant and grassroots engagement strategist who is passionate about bottom-up community development and the people who are making change happen.
RVP 2024: Philanthropy and Community Revitalization
Center for Community Progress
OCTOBER 7, 2024
RVP offers a space to generate inspiration and share tools needed to transform disinvested neighborhoods, sparking change that comes from both grassroots efforts and systemic reforms.
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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Kenny Barnes is the program and outreach coordinator for Sustainability Matters, a grassroots environmental nonprofit based in Virginia, dedicated to cultivating community through conservation and making sustainability fun, realistic and inclusive for all.
Why Is Program Evaluation So Important For Nonprofits?
Grant Consulting Services, LLC
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Catalysts Nonprofit missions are effective because they often begin at the grassroots level. Nonprofits show us that the work is worthwhile and crucial to our social fabric and that something better is possible. They understand that the ripple effect of global change begins with one person. And then another. And another.
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Quote on housing that's very apt: "As demand for housing rises, Philadelphia’s neighborhoods can either remain affordable or remain low-density. They cannot do both"
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 25, 2024
That's like the anti-76ers arena people suggesting small ground up grassroots development projects for Market Street, the downtown retail district of Philadelphia (" Penn professors spearhead workshop reimagining uses for proposed 76ers arena site near Chinatown ," Daily Pennsylvanian , " Community groups say forget 76ers arena plan " WHYY/NPR).
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A Library Writer's Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Formal instruction largely began in the 1960s and 1970s as a grassroots movement led by librarians rather than library administrators or library schools (Mellon 1987), and some librarians still feel their library administrations do not understand or value their teaching. (Oakleaf et al.
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How a Group of Teens Is Bringing a Skatepark To Their Community — Episode 082
Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends
JANUARY 12, 2021
Our guests today, Mason Whitcomb, Aidan Moore and Griffin Caiozzo, along with their other teammates Aidan Swift and Chris Roy, noticed there weren’t any safe, legal places to skateboard in their community, and started a grassroots movement to build a permanent, concrete, public skate/BMX/scooter activity park on land donated by their town.
Publication: Championing Leaders of Color
Center for Community Progress
APRIL 26, 2022
Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals. Its roots are embedded in the backyards, living rooms, and church halls of people who, out of sheer will and perseverance, found ways to advocate for change in their neighborhoods.
CFP: Advocacy and Policy Work for Academic and Research Library Workers: Perspectives and Strategies #ACRL #ACRLPublication
A Library Writer's Blog
JULY 5, 2023
OTSP memo on open access ) Subject Heading Changes United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Workforce Development & more !
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Digital Engagement for Mental Health
Social Pinpoint
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Present engagement activities primarily involve surveys conducted by various agencies, while face-to-face grassroots engagement occurs at the local level through offices, established meeting places, or social media where data management and analysis are challenging.
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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
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania. Each community cohort also receive a $10,000 grant to develop and execute their own creative placemaking projects.
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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico
Center for Community Progress
MAY 24, 2022
Cohorts of grassroots community leaders from Syracuse, New York ; Braddock/East Pittsburgh/North Braddock (BEN), Pennsylvania ; and Loíza, Puerto Rico will collectively learn revitalization strategies for neighborhoods struggling with vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment.
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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
They gave one of best ever community tours I've been on at a conference (" Artists bring flourish to Penn Avenue ," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , " A Transformed Penn Avenue ," Pittsburgh Magazine , Vacancy to Vitality in Pittsburgh’s East End: Penn Avenue Arts Initiative , case study, Metris Arts Consulting ).
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In Ahmedabad, India, Women Are Climate Leaders, Not Victims
The City Fix
APRIL 29, 2021
During the summers, in the crowded informal settlement she calls home in Ahmedabad, India, Meenaben would lay wet jute on the floor and hay on the roof of her home to lower the temperature inside. If she didn’t, her home. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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7 Ways Faith Organizations Are Making Cities More Sustainable and Equitable
The City Fix
MARCH 24, 2023
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.
No Safe Journeys for Women: Why Mobility Systems in African Cities Are Failing Women’s Needs
The City Fix
MARCH 8, 2024
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.
How to Move DevOps from Disarray to Unity
GovLoop
DECEMBER 22, 2022
This makes it more likely that users will embrace it, making it possible to transform the organization at the grassroots level. Just as important, the DevOps platform provides a simpler and more seamless user experience for teams throughout the software development lifecycle. Photo by Christina Morillo on pexels.com. Favorite.
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Lobbying my rep about the Move to Amend project
Librarian.net
MAY 31, 2023
And it’s a Vermont issue. Nearly one fifth of Vermont towns have passed resolutions at town meeting (over a decade ago) affirming that they feel money is not speech and corporations are not people.
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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
A couple of older books in this vein, are The Town that Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food , about the development of a more locally based food economy in Hardwick, Vermont (" Frontlines of a food revolution ," Los Angeles Times ), and Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing the Way We Eat , which features (..)
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Empowering Justice40: How Community-Based Organizations Are Driving Environmental Justice Forward
The City Fix
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Since President Joe Biden launched the Justice40 Initiative in January 2021, over $600 billion has been designated for more than 500 programs across 19 federal agencies. This funding supports climate-related infrastructure initiatives with a commitment to ensuring 40% of the benefits reach.
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Pinal County Modernizes Public Meetings to Improve Access and Transparency
Government Technology Insider
MAY 2, 2024
However, traditional, in-person meetings often result in a misrepresentation of the community because of lack of access for individual community members and grassroots organizations and an overrepresentation of special interest groups. Public meetings act as a pulse-check on community issues by letting community members voice their opinions.
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Upskilling Your Workforce for GenAI
GovLoop
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
It’s very much a grassroots approach that encourages innovation from the ground up,” he said. Expert Generalists That’s because, among other reasons, frontline workers know how AI tools could improve their daily tasks better than leadership or IT specialists probably do.
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Meet the 2024-25 Cohort of Community Revitalization Fellows
Center for Community Progress
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Each year, Community Progress welcomes grassroots community leaders to our Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF) program, where they collectively learn how to help their neighborhoods tackle vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, Nature-Based Solutions Take Root
The City Fix
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
For the 21 million residents of Lagos, Nigeria, climate change is not a distant concept it is a current reality. Over the past decade, the city has experienced devastating floods, exacerbated by the loss of over half of its wetlands.
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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
JANUARY 3, 2014
Social media has played an integral part in grassroots communication and participation. OWS began as a grassroots protest against the inequality, greed and corruption associated with the financial sector of the economy. CNBC’s Rick Santelli is widely credited with launching the grassroots movement. ning the Tea Party.
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Climate Justice from an Intersectional Perspective w/ Osprey Orielle Lake, Exec. Dir. of WECAN
Policy Chats
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Activate your free school-sponsored subscription today at: WSJ.com/UCRiverside About Osprey Orielle Lake : Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, working nationally and internationally with grassroots and frontline women leaders, policy-makers, and diverse coalitions (..)
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