Center for Community Progress

JUNE 22, 2023

Loíza residents, like the grassroots leaders participating in CRF, have worked hard to reclaim some of these properties as sites of community and culture. They found solidarity in seeing a fellow community of artists, grassroots leaders, and community activists do a lot with very little.

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iGrantWriters

JANUARY 25, 2022

Eligibility Applicant Eligibility for Existing Watershed GroupsIn order to be eligible to receive an award as an Existing Watershed Group, the applicant must be an eligible entity as described immediately above and must be either: An Existing Watershed Group, (i.e., Eligible Projects for a more comprehensive description of eligible activities.A

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 12, 2021

Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 12, 2021

Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed. Leon Robinson and De'Wayne Drummond are Philadelphia community organizers on a mission to empower grassroots organizers with the skills and tools they need to succeed.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Kenny Barnes is the program and outreach coordinator for Sustainability Matters, a grassroots environmental nonprofit based in Virginia, dedicated to cultivating community through conservation and making sustainability fun, realistic and inclusive for all.

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Social Pinpoint

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Placemaking often involves grassroots innovation by locals, who come together to collaborate, re-purpose space and promote better. Placemaking is fostered by reinventing public spaces to create a sense of ‘place’ and activate under-utilized parts of cities, often through small-scale intervention and community collaboration.

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A Library Writer's Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Formal instruction largely began in the 1960s and 1970s as a grassroots movement led by librarians rather than library administrators or library schools (Mellon 1987), and some librarians still feel their library administrations do not understand or value their teaching. (Oakleaf et al.

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Librarian.net

MAY 31, 2023

And it’s a Vermont issue. Nearly one fifth of Vermont towns have passed resolutions at town meeting (over a decade ago) affirming that they feel money is not speech and corporations are not people.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Catalysts Nonprofit missions are effective because they often begin at the grassroots level. Nonprofits show us that the work is worthwhile and crucial to our social fabric and that something better is possible. They understand that the ripple effect of global change begins with one person. And then another. And another.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 31, 2018

He is an internationally sought-after community development consultant and grassroots engagement strategist who is passionate about bottom-up community development and the people who are making change happen.

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A Library Writer's Blog

JULY 5, 2023

OTSP memo on open access ) Subject Heading Changes United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Workforce Development & more !

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JANUARY 12, 2021

Our guests today, Mason Whitcomb, Aidan Moore and Griffin Caiozzo, along with their other teammates Aidan Swift and Chris Roy, noticed there weren’t any safe, legal places to skateboard in their community, and started a grassroots movement to build a permanent, concrete, public skate/BMX/scooter activity park on land donated by their town.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 26, 2022

Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals. Its roots are embedded in the backyards, living rooms, and church halls of people who, out of sheer will and perseverance, found ways to advocate for change in their neighborhoods.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 11, 2022

Whether lobbying political leaders in world capitals or running grassroots campaigns in local communities, ONE encourages governments to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Our goal is to create a world in which everyone, everywhere can lead a life of dignity and opportunity.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

APRIL 2, 2023

She has experience in grassroots organizing, TikTok agency start-ups and recently worked on the creative team at Illumination Entertainment and the digital marketing team at Friends at Work, a celebrity talent management company. Arielle Isedenu is our digital marketing and sales assistant.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

Cohorts of grassroots community leaders from Syracuse, New York ; Braddock/East Pittsburgh/North Braddock (BEN), Pennsylvania ; and Loíza, Puerto Rico will collectively learn revitalization strategies for neighborhoods struggling with vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

They gave one of best ever community tours I've been on at a conference (" Artists bring flourish to Penn Avenue ," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , " A Transformed Penn Avenue ," Pittsburgh Magazine , Vacancy to Vitality in Pittsburgh’s East End: Penn Avenue Arts Initiative , case study, Metris Arts Consulting ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A couple of older books in this vein, are The Town that Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food , about the development of a more locally based food economy in Hardwick, Vermont (" Frontlines of a food revolution ," Los Angeles Times ), and Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing the Way We Eat , which features (..)

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The City Fix

MARCH 8, 2024

For a woman living in an African city, public transport can be a daunting experience. Women usually plan their trips in advance, and consider a multitude of factors before setting out: What is the safest way to reach the bus.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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The City Fix

APRIL 29, 2021

During the summers, in the crowded informal settlement she calls home in Ahmedabad, India, Meenaben would lay wet jute on the floor and hay on the roof of her home to lower the temperature inside. If she didn’t, her home. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This makes it more likely that users will embrace it, making it possible to transform the organization at the grassroots level. Just as important, the DevOps platform provides a simpler and more seamless user experience for teams throughout the software development lifecycle. Photo by Christina Morillo on pexels.com. Favorite.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 25, 2024

That's like the anti-76ers arena people suggesting small ground up grassroots development projects for Market Street, the downtown retail district of Philadelphia (" Penn professors spearhead workshop reimagining uses for proposed 76ers arena site near Chinatown ," Daily Pennsylvanian , " Community groups say forget 76ers arena plan " WHYY/NPR).

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Present engagement activities primarily involve surveys conducted by various agencies, while face-to-face grassroots engagement occurs at the local level through offices, established meeting places, or social media where data management and analysis are challenging.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 2, 2024

However, traditional, in-person meetings often result in a misrepresentation of the community because of lack of access for individual community members and grassroots organizations and an overrepresentation of special interest groups. Public meetings act as a pulse-check on community issues by letting community members voice their opinions.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Social media has played an integral part in grassroots communication and participation. OWS began as a grassroots protest against the inequality, greed and corruption associated with the financial sector of the economy. CNBC’s Rick Santelli is widely credited with launching the grassroots movement. ning the Tea Party.

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