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A Conversation with Crystal Loffler, President of the Office of Community Renewal

Center for Community Progress

Can you share a little bit about yourself and your role at New York State Homes & Community Renewal (HCR)? I joined HCR in 2008. I served as the Program Director for several years before taking on a leadership position for the agency’s Office of Community Renewal. I started as a project manager for agency grant programs.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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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

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements. 2011; Aday, et al.,