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Volunteer Expo, Asheville, North Carolina

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggested each city political district should sponsor a volunteer expo, based on the Hill Center effort, but of course, a city-wide event can be just as good.

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Celebrating Pride Month in Parks and Recreation — Episode 138

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In fact, just last week, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group, declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. Chris is a six-time member of Team USA, and in 2015 he became the first openly transgender man to represent the United States in international competition.

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And in " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggest more tools for ward-specific oversight. I've written about this over the years, " Continued musing on restructuring DC's City Council (mostly) " (2013), is probably the most complete summation of recommended changes.

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What Should You Be Doing: Fundraising or Pursuing Grant Money?

Peak Proposals

, you have three primary options for raising funds: 1) you can solicit donations from individuals, 2) you can submit proposals to foundations and government agencies to receive grant funding, or 3) you can hold fundraising campaigns and community events to collect donations. This is not the case.

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Education Grants Conference. The One Conference School Administrators Can't Afford To Miss If They Want To Bring In Maximum Grant Funding!

iGrantWriters

No one else in the grantmaking industry was serving this audience of educators, so in 2015, he decided to fill in the gap and offer the first Education Grants Conference. The top tips on what your district needs to do online and offline to create a winning GRANT CAMPAIGN that gets funded. t know the answers to but need to know.â??Â

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since.

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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But close encounters during the rest of the week were a selling point in the successful campaign to lure the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a new federal research agency known as ARPA-H, to Cambridge, said O’Connell, the MassBio CEO. This made it more difficult for young people to find space,” Grima recalls. “It

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