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RVP 2024: Philanthropy and Community Revitalization

Center for Community Progress

How do your partnerships with local governments, nonprofits, and residents inform your community investments? Olivia Barrow Strauss, JPMorganChase: We believe that supporting thriving communities and robust local economies requires developing strong relationships with local partners.

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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

That’s why our Technical Assistance team continues to provide local governments with customized, expert guidance that sets communities up for success. Implementing policy and practice changes that address vacancy is an enormous task, and many communities can’t do it alone.

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WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I Grants - March 31, 2022

iGrantWriters

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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Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

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.

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Pinal County Modernizes Public Meetings to Improve Access and Transparency

Government Technology Insider

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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Empowering Justice40: How Community-Based Organizations Are Driving Environmental Justice Forward

The City Fix

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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In Sub-Saharan Africa, Nature-Based Solutions Take Root

The City Fix

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.