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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Poster board from the 2014 meetings. The study came from the public-private Purple Line Corridor Coalition, a group composed of government officials, community activists, nonprofits, companies and academics. Communities most at risk include Long Branch, Langley Park and Riverdale Park, study leaders said.

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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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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

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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Proposal to build new basketball arena in Downtown Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I hate to admit that I never did much of a literature search when I began development the "framework characteristics" pieces, starting first with Sacramento in 2014 (" An arena subsidy project I'd probably favor: Sacramento "). Some of the work supports my argument.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So cities have been relying on nonprofit entities--business improvement districts, parks conservancies, etc., Flower chair, Street Furniture Australia. This is going to require much more serious and ongoing public space management, which cities tend to lack the agility and funding for. to provide this kind of service.

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers.

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Does a Nonprofit “First Look” Program Promote Neighborhood Stabilization? Examining Outcomes for REO Sales in Florida

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, Andrew Jakabovics and David Sanchez discuss how a nonprofit “first look” program impacted outcomes for real estate owned (REO) properties. One estimate suggests that more than 5 million homes that were originally owner-occupied transitioned to rental homes between 2006 and 2017. Within these census tracts, 71.3