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Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Nicknamed Justice40, this initiative challenges local governments and nonprofit agencies to actively engage people living in disadvantaged communities in participating in the planning of major infrastructure improvements such as bridges, public transportation, clean air and water initiatives, and more.

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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

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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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

And all land banks have partnered with either nonprofit housing providers or private local contractors to create more affordable housing choices, including rental units, across the state. Fifteen land banks have partnered with Habitat for Humanity affiliates to expand quality, affordable homeownership opportunities. Advancing Racial Equity.

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5 public sector technology predictions for 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

At AWS re:Invent 2022, I connected with inspiring customers around the world who are using the cloud to drive innovation in government, education, nonprofit, space, and healthcare. In South Korea, cafeterias implementing ZWZH reduced overall food waste by an average of 30%, while on-plate food waste was reduced by up to 42%.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

ANDP Single-Family Developments Shaded by LMI Census Tracts, January 2010 – June 30, 2020. Although present-day housing challenges differ from those of the foreclosure crisis, many of the strategies implemented since have the potential to help address negative housing effects related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon Web Services (AWS) works with customers and partners to build software solutions that improve government and nonprofits’ prediction, preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities—solutions that are being leveraged across Latin America and the Caribbean. Predicting the unexpected.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Neighborhood groups had to come together to come up with and implement a program of community improvements. For awhile GWU did a program like the Community Planning Lab, mostly for ANC commissioners, but I didn't think it reached very far. -- " (Even more on) ANCs (Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in DC) ," 2010 DC and non-citizens.