Center for Community Progress

JULY 20, 2023

Every year, the Center for Community Progress hosts VAD Academy, our virtual boot camp for public, private, nonprofit, and community leaders whose communities are impacted by vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties. Some cities, like Detroit, are working to correct the overvaluation with equity in mind.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

Double the Donation’s guide to corporate sponsorships offers some instructive tips on both asking for financial support and cultivating productive nonprofit-funder relationships. Building relationships with transparency in mind will allow your nonprofit to establish a good track record that will aid future grant seeking efforts.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

For the next several months I’ll be concentrating on writing the fifth edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations. After all, I’ve co-authored books about the strategic uses of causal mapping with titles like Visual Strategy (Wiley, 2014) and Visible Thinking (Wiley, 2004). What might compass over map mean?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs.

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