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COVID-19: California's Workforce & Economy (with Angelov Farooq)

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About Angelov Farooq: Angelov Farooq is the owner of AVM Innovation Consulting, LLC, a Southern California based economic development firm. In 2013, Dr. Farooq was appointed the Chairman of the California Workforce Development Board under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration. Learn more about Angelov Farooq via [link].

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COVID-19: California's Workforce & Economy (with Angelov Farooq)

Policy Chats

About Angelov Farooq: Angelov Farooq is the owner of AVM Innovation Consulting, LLC, a Southern California based economic development firm. In 2013, Dr. Farooq was appointed the Chairman of the California Workforce Development Board under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration. Learn more about Angelov Farooq via [link].

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I was lucky in that the application I'm submitting had a cost category and percentage schedule outlined in a 2013 city memo. It made it very easy to come up with the budget.) Generally they are supposed to.

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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Similarly, the creation of Appalachian School of Law in rural Virginia was touted as a way to build the economic power of the region (" Appalachian School of Law receives final installment of $6 million funding package ," Bluefield Daily Telegraph ). Leveraging higher education institutions for urban economic development.

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

TPAPs should be implemented at multiple scales: (1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g.,

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The most prominent example of this is the collective effort by the Ford, Kresge, Mott, and the Knight foundations to fund over $330 million of the bailout for the bankrupt City of Detroit in 2013. Adding to the complexity, the answers to these questions might vary depending on service area (ie public education, economic development, etc).

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. Another link.