A Library Writer's Blog

MAY 14, 2024

ACRL’s strategic plan and ALA’s Core Values of access, equity, intellectual freedom and privacy, public good, and sustainability can inform this conversation. In 2000, the first edition of Michael Gorman’s Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century was published.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

To capitalize on these benefits for the expanding vacant lot inventories in low resource settings, communities require strategies that maximize program responsiveness, capacity, and sustainability. Resident involvement may also be important for advancing program capacity and sustainability.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

OCTOBER 3, 2024

While these funds are designed to be self-sustaining, the below-market interest rates they offer (relative to what private investors would expect) may require ongoing subsidies or support to maintain financial viability over time. Two key characteristics bolster the success and sustainability of these models.

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Park Leaders

MARCH 5, 2024

Ryan shares some of the vital lessons learned and the international collaborations that aim to bolster our global stewardship efforts. Don’t miss this conversation on the nuances of managing protected areas, ranger training, sustainability.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To target housing affordability, many land banks are forming partnerships with mission-driven entities focused on quality, sustainable, and affordable housing. As was reported in 2021, residents and local institutions are still the most frequent recipients of land bank properties.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 26, 2024

Available on a cooperative contract through OMNIA Partners , Fellowes offers an array of products so that public sector agencies can foster high-performance work environments while prioritizing sustainability and environmental stewardship. Discover how you can unleash your organization’s worklife potential today!

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 2, 2022

Likewise, one of the strengths of CLTs is the long-term stewardship of land and ensuring that the pipeline of properties acquired from a land bank continues to serve the community in perpetuity. 5.

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A Library Writer's Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As an inevitable reality of heritage preservation--saving everything is an impossibility--a nuanced understanding of the fundamental role of loss is an important counterpart to these organizations’ work towards preservation, permanence and sustainability. What is heritage and cultural property, and to whom do they belong?

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

CRH is the only 501(c)(3) in Puerto Rico dedicated to leveraging vacant and abandoned properties as assets for building sustainable communities. Their specialties include urban planning, public policy, landscape design, permaculture, and sustainable land stewardship advocacy.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

JUNE 29, 2023

For example, an environmental organization wants funding for its environmental stewardship program. Just as importantly, your budget helps build the case that your organization and programs are sustainable and that the impact of the foundation’s investment will live on well beyond the grant period. There are several types of budgets.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

We need improved productivity through innovation to help ensure the sustainability of our world-class health system. And it can ease pressure on the health workforce, reduce red tape, and ensure the affordability and sustainability of the system. How can technology make this a reality? “Our

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Islands can be testbeds for sustainable innovation that can help address these needs. But how can European Islands and other territories begin creating a smart and sustainable island strategy?

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Modeled after the NC Rural Center’s Loan Participation Program , CornerSquare Community Capital will be a long-term, sustainable solution to support CDFIs working with small businesses at the local level. For general inquiries about Natural Capital Investment Fund, contact Marten Jenkins at mjenkins@conservationfund.org or 681-252-4276.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

To do this, we will improve water efficiency, use sustainable water sources, return water for community reuse, and support water replenishment projects – data and measurement are key. Learn more about AWS Water Stewardship. Learn more about DataStream.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 13, 2023

But it is possible, as we look to the future of these cities, that the vacant land that is now accumulating may become a valuable resource in their efforts to become sustainable communities. There is no good answer. Purchase a copy of Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World from Island Press. appeared first on Center for Community Progress.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Modeled after the NC Rural Center’s Loan Participation Program , CornerSquare Community Capital will be a long-term, sustainable solution to support CDFIs working with small businesses at the local level. For general inquiries about Natural Capital Investment Fund, contact Marten Jenkins at mjenkins@conservationfund.org or 681-252-4276.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

PBB contributes to a community’s long-term financial sustainability and allows communities to better serve their residents in the most effective, efficient and fiscally responsible manner possible. The City of Boulder, Colorado recently stated that " priority based budgeting is the "framework" in which all budget decisions are made."

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

On June 21, 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative ( ASDI ) Global Hackathon, part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO. ASDI data catalog offers open and no cost data in the cloud.

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iGrantWriters

DECEMBER 19, 2021

  Promote more open and sustainable economic growth in Panama through activities that encourage or strengthen local entrepreneurship The U.S.   Promote sustainable development through responsible management of Panamaâ??s Environmental stewardship is integral to U.S. policy and perspectives.   Facilitate U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2024

must be consistent and focused on making the right decisions, the decisions that collectively achieve and support the realization of the community’s desired vision and positioning in terms of quality of life/placemaking, economic health, and the stewardship of physical assets and the built and natural environment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy. A new $100,000 AWS community grant fund launched in 2023 supports Calgary sustainability initiatives. The AWS Cloud is 3.6 times more energy efficient than traditional data centers.

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