2019

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1.21 Programming for Success with Chris Bass

Let's Talk Parks

Programming for Success with Chris Bass. Episode play icon. Programming for Success with Chris Bass. From developing program ideas, evaluating success, and managing teams, there’s so much to know when it comes to recreation programming.

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How Can You Tell If Your Grant Proposal Is Any Good?

Peak Proposals

After you finish writing your grant proposal, is there any way to know if it is any good? Someone emailed this question to us recently, and we imagine others have wondered this as well.

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January top 5 for under 5

Princeton Public Library

Check out this month’s recommendations for upcoming events at the library and around town, and new picture books, curated by Youth Services department staff, for children up to 5 years and their families.

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Market Urbanism: An Update On The Movement

The Market Urbanism Report

Summarizing a movement that looks to bring free-market policy ideas into cities

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ASPA TIMES Magazine: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

PA TIMES Magazine is a publication of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), a not-for-profit corporation. This edition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in public administration, including guest columns, insights for the field and interviews with city government DEI officers about their work at the local level.

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2020 Community Engagement Trends

Social Pinpoint

With a new decade quickly approaching, it's time to reflect on our community engagement strategies and think about how these trends will change in the upcoming year. The post 2020 Community Engagement Trends appeared first on Social Pinpoint - A Place to Engage Your Community.

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National Preparedness Month is Here!

Public Works Group Blog

We made it – National Preparedness Month is here, and we are prepared! If you followed along, congratulations to you too! Below is a photo of the result of our efforts in our household over the last 20 weeks.

2019 52
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eSports at the Rec Center? — Episode 046

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Three million dollars. That’s how much Kyle Giersdorf just won at the Fortnite World Cup — a video game competition held at the Arthur Ashe tennis stadium in New York. That’s right. He won $3 million playing video games in a place typically reserved for the US Open.

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Episode 4 - Audio Article: Embrace the "Why?" by Jason Soza

Decisions That Matter

Jason Soza , Vice President, West at Government Sourcing Solutions reads from his article, "Embrace the 'Why?'" , where he discusses the importance of thinking critically and outside of the box to improve procurement. Jason served as the Chief Procurement Officer of Alaska to cap a 20-year career in public purchasing. Jason was also elected President of NASPO in 2018 by his peers across all fifty states.

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Season 2 Episode 27 - Alycia Yozzi, GSA Analyst and CIO Council Senior Advisor

GovCast

With a passion for helping people and roots in creative arts, Alycia Yozzi discusses her current initiatives at the CIO Council to transform government IT in areas including workforce, acquisition, design, development and more. For more podcasts: [link

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After the storms: Research on How to Improve Marine Transportation System Resilience after the 2017 Hurricane Season

Data.gov

A 2018 report from the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) gathered recommendations and ‘lessons learned’ from the 2017 hurricane season on how to improve resiliency across the marine transportation system.

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Google Cloud Platform is now FedRAMP High authorized

Google Public Sector

At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing public sector agencies with technology to help improve citizen services, increase operational effectiveness, and better meet their missions.

2019 52
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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Our blog posts typically focus on grant strategies for nonprofit institutions. In this post, we’re going to focus on a different topic for a more targeted audience. The topic is research funding. The content will be most relevant to US-based academics.

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Engage Princeton

Princeton Public Library

Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day,” ends with the question, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your wild and precious life?” ” The library wants to empower you to find the answer with our new community resource guide, EngagePrinceton.org.

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Peseros: The Vast Private Bus Network Of Mexico City

The Market Urbanism Report

CDMX has a ubiquitous private transit network that's fast & cheap

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Can We Overcomplicate Community Engagement?

Social Pinpoint

Finding beauty in simplicity can be a rewarding undertaking. Application of this principle can be found in life and community engagement! The post Can We Overcomplicate Community Engagement? appeared first on Social Pinpoint - A Place to Engage Your Community. Article Research & Strategy

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Happy MLK Day

Media Policy Center

Martin Luther King was a champion of economic justice and repeatedly spoke about the disparities in American society.

2019 52
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A man walks into a room

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

A man walks into the room. He is extremely handsome and quite tall (at least for his time, about 520 years ago). He is neither fat nor thin. In fact he likes his food and drink, he is fond of convivial dinners with good food and wine.

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Tips for Advancing in the Field of Parks and Recreation — Episode 045

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

I think it’s fair to say that many times when people enter a career field, they do so with intentions of advancing in that career and continuing to progress, learn and grow.

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Episode 4 - Audio Article: Embrace the "Why?" by Jason Soza

Decisions That Matter

Jason Soza , Vice President, West at Government Sourcing Solutions reads from his article, "Embrace the 'Why?'" , where he discusses the importance of thinking critically and outside of the box to improve procurement. Jason served as the Chief Procurement Officer of Alaska to cap a 20-year career in public purchasing. Jason was also elected President of NASPO in 2018 by his peers across all fifty states.

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Season 2 Episode 26 - Michael Weingarten, Director of Small Business Innovation Research Development Center, National Cancer Institute

GovCast

The cancer institute's director of small business research sees the importance small business bring to cancer innovation at the agency. He discusses how his path from NASA brought him to his role in bringing the next generation of technology to cancer research. For more podcasts: [link] *The businesses and technologies mentioned during this episode received SBIR funding from the National Cancer Institute and are not endorsements or advertisements

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Episode 77: 10th Annual State CIO Survey

FedHeads

Robert Shea and Francis Rose welcome Doug Robinson, Executive Director of the National Associations of State CIOs (NASCIO) and Graeme Finley, Principal at Grant Thornton Public Sector.

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Financial Experts Share Their Best Practices for Staying on Mission as a Top-Rated Park District

ParkTalk podcast

Finance professionals Sue Stanish, Tom Sawyer and Eric Anderson shed light on financial strategies that help maintain the Naperville Park District’s Aaa bond rating and readiness to meet future challenges.

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How the Small Business Administration became a leader in evidence-based decision making: An interview with Jason Bossie, Director, Office of Performance Management, SBA – Episode #169

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Over the last two years, the Small Business Administration has made laudable progress in building and using evidence in order to learn what works and help programs improve.

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Expanding your reading horizons

Princeton Public Library

As 2019 draws to a close, I find myself thinking about my reading goals for next year. When it comes to reading for pleasure, most people (including me) tend to stick to what they know.

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What Mexico City Can Teach America About Placemaking

The Market Urbanism Report

Nice city streets are a value-creation tool. Why don't more U.S. cities build them

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6 Reasons Why Public Participation and Community Engagement are Important

Social Pinpoint

Community engagement can transform communities. By encouraging public participation in projects that impact society it facilitates fair, equitable, and sustainable outcomes.

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Of Sturgeon and Ships

Data.gov

The U.S. Coast Guard maintains an archive of historical vessel position movements, collected through the Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS).

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Seven years later, the submission rate is equivalent to about 1,500 manuscripts per year (although the rejection rate is over 80 per cent).

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Roxanne and Cort’s New Year’s Resolutions — Episode 056

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Since New Year’s Eve falls on the same Tuesday as the release of a new episode, we felt it would be fitting to reflect on the past year and share some of our resolutions moving into 2020. On this episode, we discuss the ways we’re both going to make sure self-care is a priority in the new year. As much as it gets thrown around as a buzzword these days, it’s so important, and absolutely necessary in order to be our best selves.

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Episode 3 - The Public Procurement Report w/ Nicole Smith

Decisions That Matter

On Episode 3 of Decisions That Matter we sat down with Nicole Smith , The Senior Director of Research at Government Sourcing Solutions, to talk about the key takeaways from Volume 4 of the Public Procurement Report. The report highlights the biggest trends in government procurement based on conversations with hundreds of CPOs from cities, counties, and states across the U.S.

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Season 2 Episode 25 - Freda Bredy, Buy Smarter Initiative Lead, HHS

GovCast

The Department of Health and Human Services' Buy Smarter program aims to use emerging technologies to transform how the agency purchases goods. Its program lead discusses how this effort will also provide real-time data to decision-makers to achieve efficiencies and reduce costs on goods and services

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Guest Host Carlos Otal Joins FedHeads LIVE from the Big Easy!

FedHeads

The FedHeads have hit the road again - this time to the Association of Government Accountants annual conference in New Orleans, LA. And that's not all - guest host - and honorary FedHead - Carlos Otal joins the pod to cover for Robert Shea, who is on assignment.

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S14 - Episode 02: Floral Artwork In The Parks

ParkTalk podcast

Listen to what goes into planning the beautiful floral displays at the Naperville Riverwalk and the wildflower gardens in Park District’s natural areas, and why staff enjoys designing these ever-changing works of art in the parks. Listen to what goes into planning the beautiful floral displays at the Naperville Riverwalk and the wildflower gardens in Park District’s natural areas, and why staff enjoys designing these ever-changing works of art in the parks

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