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Boost Your Community Engagement Rates with QR Codes

Social Pinpoint

As people get used to using them, we can see them playing a huge role in boosting community engagement too. However, they really gained prominence with the general public in 2020 as the world tried to slow the spread of coronavirus. smartphone users scanned a QR code in 2021. In fact, over 6.6 million U.S.

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Looking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities

Center for Community Progress

Each community cohort also receive a $10,000 grant to develop and execute their own creative placemaking projects. The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018).

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An Opportunity, not a Threat: Leveraging Increased Police Scrutiny for Reflection and Improvement?

zencity

Immediately following the tragic murder of George Floyd in May of 2020, a cry for structural and meaningful change to policing could be heard across the nation. A 2020 poll showed that Americans’ confidence in the police has dropped to a record low. Since then, public trust in police has slightly increased in 2021, yet remains low.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."