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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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4 global skills trends shaping workforce development

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Global Skills Report draws data from 100 million learners in more than 100 countries who have used Coursera , a global online learning platform, to develop a new skill during the past year—with the goal of providing actionable insights to businesses, governments, and campuses looking to understand the skill needs of their organization.

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Federal Business Applications Webinar - June 21st - Power Platform Center of Excellence

Microsoft Public Sector

The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of a Power Platform Center of Excellence in the Federal Government Sphere June 21st @ 1pm ET Established in 2020, Transport Canada’s Power Apps Centre of Excellence (PACE) team has been involved in Governance, Professional Development, and Citizen Development.

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Disruption and Refocusing: COVID Response and the Climate Crisis at Transforming Transportation 2021

The City Fix

2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Four Years After the Pandemic, Work-From-Home Trends Reshape Residential Choices and Real Estate

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Four years after the pandemic began in March 2020, much of daily life has returned to normal; mask mandates have been lifted, people gather in large numbers for concerts and conferences, and the unemployment rate has returned to pre-pandemic levels. Davis, 2021. This is mirrored in local data for North Carolina. 2] Akan et al.

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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. Although the rate of foreclosure in Cuyahoga County had declined as of 2020, much remedial work remains unfinished.

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More systematic equity and revitalization planning as an imperative and opportunity in the suburbs: Northern Virginia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," 2021 -- " Revisiting St. Unfortunately, US economic development planning is more about "trickle down" rather than focused approaches to addressing low income pockets within otherwise successful areas.

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