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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019). I don't know if that happens at the poorer schools too. but it fell off.

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A Nevada Library Shares How They Used A Smart Video Marketing Strategy To Combat Drag Story Hour Protests

Super Library Marketing

Her library held its first Drag Story Hour in 2019. The last happened in 2022. Jamie is also working on the launch of a new grant-funded Bookmobile, “We use parade appearances as an additional marketing and outreach tool, so next up on our list is to debut the Bookmobile at the Sparks Hometowne Christmas Parade,” said Jamie.

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How to Increase Accessible and Equitable Public Engagement

Social Pinpoint

Use stakeholder mapping to understand which tools will reach which audiences and identifying where efforts can be combined, and where you need to have more targeted outreach. Each session lasted three hours (10-1 pm and 5-8 pm), requiring a great deal of staff time in preparing and facilitating the open house events.

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STEAM-empowered: AWS launches new skills and education programs to inspire cloud-curious students and empower girls, women across Virginia and beyond

AWS Public Sector Blog

“At AWS, we’ve made it a priority to support several initiatives to help create the next generation of creative thinkers and future builders in the communities where we have a physical presence,” said Cornelia Robinson, head of inclusion and outreach at AWS. “We

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

During the study period, answering rates—or the rate at which tenants appeared in response to court filing—increased dramatically throughout the city, likely due to citywide outreach and tenant engagement. However, the study did not find a significant difference in answering rates in UAC ZIP Codes. Background. Research Questions.

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United Arab Emirates Space Agency and AWS sign agreement to support long-term growth in the region’s space ecosystem 

AWS Public Sector Blog

This initiative includes outreach and training designed to support talent development for the space industry in the UAE, particularly with regards to cloud computing and big data. The new AWS Region in UAE is the second Middle East region, with Bahrain having launched in 2019. AWS launching new Region in UAE in 2022.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. These kinds of programs could be great components of a community health outreach initiative on the west side. 5, signaling a new era of healthcare ," Cleveland Plain Dealer ).