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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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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

17-17 Troutman Street, Queens, former textile factory, 90 studios 64 Fulton Street, Financial District, Manhattan, mix of religious and nonprofit organizations and 20 studios Equinox Studios, Seattle. He can afford it. They can't. Mycella Collective.

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Join this session to hear how government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and aerospace and satellite organizations are using the cloud to improve the lives of their citizens, students, patients, and more. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

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CFP URL: [link] CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction 2023-10-16 The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social formations around natural resource management.

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Google Public Sector and Battelle NEON expand data access to advance ecological research

Google Public Sector

After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, residents recently partnered with NEON and local nonprofit TechnoServe to adopt NEON protocols for sampling groundwater to measure nitrate levels, checking if their local well water was safe for consumption. “The Battelle is partnering with ten U.S.

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

Center for Community Progress

Despite their limited capacity and resources, the COGs relentlessly advocated for investment to address the significant amount of vacant and abandoned properties harming their communities, culminating in the creation of the TCLB in 2017.

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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

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. A good example is Bilbao. -- " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced? A lot more about that below.