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Call for Chapters: Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development #ACRLPublication

A Library Writer's Blog

EDITED BY: Wendy Pothier , University of New Hampshire & Ilana Stonebraker, Indiana University OVERVIEW: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), first adopted in 2012, have worked in tandem with worldwide climate concerns to alter the way we approach the environment, poverty, gender inequality, hunger and worldwide trade.

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Bicyclist deaths-bicycle safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice on Times Square in New York, June 20, 2012. Some bike advocacy groups do, like Bike Easy in New Orleans ( Adult programs ). AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand. But most don't.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Planning and advocacy. Maybe they could do an exciting one for 2100 South.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12]

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NonProfits & Branding – The Paradigm Shift

Public Policy Blog

Many nonprofits use their brands primarily as a fundraising tool, but a growing number of nonprofits are developing a broader and more strategic approach, managing their brands to create greater social impact and tighter organizational cohesion ( Kylander & Stone, 2012 ) attempting to act as catalysts of change in the world.

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Why I care about a moonshot for care

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

Where, I keep wondering, is the same energy, enthusiasm and fashionable fascination with “mission” reforms in science, technology and manufacturing that might be directed at remaking, for example, a health and care system with the same vigour, advocacy and resourcing?

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.