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CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

A Library Writer's Blog

2012, 6) Teaching has become a core activity in academic libraries over the last decades, but librarians may find their teaching role to be a complicated one. Some may feel anxious or ambiguous about the role (Lundstrom, Fagerheim, and Van Geen 2021; Mattson, Kirker, Oberlies, and Byrd 2017). "Librarians teach. Either way, we teach."

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How the Tri-COG Land Bank is Transforming Vacant Properties in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

By: Liz Kozub I got my start in transforming vacant properties in 2012 as an intern for the City of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a dense community of just over 2,000 residents with tremendous community pride. I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets.

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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And that it was adjacent to the Dudley Street neighborhood, which had its own community improvement organization too, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, documented in the book Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. When neighborhoods become attractive at the scale of the metropolitan area, prices go up.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In the past couple years, several rigorous studies have documented the growth of these nonprofit funding groups, across numerous service delivery areas. What’s more, they are not sporadic or limited to a single service area; they span every service function and level of government. References. LeRoux, Kelly.

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CRA Today

Klein assumed the leadership of BOI (formerly FIELD) in 2012, after working as a senior consultant since the program’s inception in 1998. Emily joined First Western in June of 2017 and currently serves as CRA Analyst. Credentials: BA, Marketing – Kent State University, MBA, Leadership and Business Management – Kent State University.

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So, Your Jurisdiction is Thinking of Starting a Revenue Manual…

Death and Taxes

It is the most revealing document about what a government values. While it may not be as revealing of a document as the budget, it is still critical. It, like your budget, is a technical document. On page 91 of that document, it discusses sales taxes for general revenue. All revenues should be included. Revenue Manual.”

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This would be, in essence, an unwinding of the ERCF and a return to approximately the CCF that was officially in place from 2017 to 2019 for setting the average G-fee. 2] For an explanation of why it is so closely watched, see the Addendum at the end of this document. [3] 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7] percent, but 0.10

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