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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists

Partnership for Public Service

Honoring our finalists Since 2002, the Partnership has honored over 760 public servants whose accomplishments contribute to the health, safety and well-being of our country and have provided people with a call to public service. The finalists also visited the White House later in the day. Photo credit: Joshua Roberts.

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Building community, connection and commitment for African American federal executives

Partnership for Public Service

To mark Black History Month, I spoke with Tyra Dent, president of the African American Federal Executive Association, a nonprofit organization founded in 2002 that is dedicated to preparing and supporting African Americans for advancement into and within the senior ranks of the federal government.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. There is no public funding to commit to another project.” People at the forum said the discussion needed to move off an arena-or-nothing dynamic.