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Martin Luther King Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Launched in 2017 as King Boston, Embrace Boston has also hosted annual conferences and galas, studied inequality in the city and advocated for causes. They were kind enough to send the draft to me, although it's in my slush pile to read still.

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In other cases, they’re created directly by elected and administrative officials of government organizations, operating as an extension of government agencies yet they engage in fundraising, soliciting private contributions from willing citizen donors.

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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. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For CounterPulse, the seven-year fundraising hustle proved the main challenge, though Phelps noted that CounterPulse buying a building attracted new funders who hadn’t come around before. If they all make it through the pipeline, San Francisco could see 10 downtown arts organizations buy their buildings within the decade.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Gaps in park master planning frameworks -- " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks " -- " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Two | Academic Research, Activation, Public Art, Seasonality, Climate " -- " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Civic Engagement " -- "Gaps in Parks Mater Planning: (..)

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The committees would concern design and maintenance, business development and recruitment, organizational development including fundraising and organizational communications, and what the model calls "promotion," which includes generally marketing of the building/district, special events and programming, and cross promotion between businesses.