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2011 Color of Wealth Policy Summit: The Recession Generation, the Racial Wealth Gap and Restoring American Prosperity
April 6 - April 7, 8:30am - 5:00pm, Washington DC
This FREE two-day event will feature panels of researchers, community practitioners and policy advocates who will engage in discussions about the growth in the wealth gap between white American families and those of color and the effect that this decline is having on children of color. Members of Congress and the administration will provide their views on what needs to be done to eradicate poverty, rebuild the middle class and eliminate racial disparities. Learn more & register...
The Neighborhood and the City: 2011 Carl Ruskin Lecture
April 7, 7:20pm with reception to follow, Baltimore MD
May Louie, Director of Leadership and Capacity Building for the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), will describe how DSNI transformed a Boston neighborhood from near devastation into an urban village-in-progress. DSNI is known in the community change field for its innovative approaches to development. Ms. Louie is also Project Director of DSNI's Boston Promise Initiative. Learn more & register...
Activate Your Inner Citizen (AYIC): University
April 9, 8:00am - 12:00noon, Baltimore MD
AYIC is the Citizen Planning and Housing Association's annual series of universities, workshops and briefings created to promote collaboration and increase the uniting capacity of Baltimore's residents and community associations. The AYIC: Universities teach Baltimore City residents the leadership skills they need to advocate on behalf of their community and to organize their neighborhoods for positive change. Learn more & register...
There are many more Events & Trainings, but unfortunately we could not include them all in our newsletter! Please click the link below to see more...
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Community Energy Savers Grant Program
Application deadlines: April 15 and June 30, 2011
The City of Baltimore has committed $1 million in stimulus funds to a competitive grant program for community and neighborhood organizations to reduce energy use. The Community Energy Savers Grant is designed to provide community groups with technical assistance and financial resources needed to reduce energy use, either by their organization or their target audience. For more information...
Green Affordable Housing Preservation Loan Fund
Application deadline: none
The National Housing Trust Community Development Fund provides below market loans to affordable housing developers who seek to incorporate green building techniques when rehabilitating existing affordable housing. Under this program, a portion of the loan will be forgiven when the developer demonstrates that they have incorporated practical, environmentally friendly design elements in the property's rehabilitation plan. For more information...
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Reports
Rails to Real Estate: Development Patterns Along Three New Transit Lines
Prepared by the Center for Transit-Oriented Development
This report documents real estate development patterns along three recently constructed light rail transit lines in the United States. Setting realistic expectations about the scale, timing and location of private investment along new transit lines is especially critical where new development is expected to help pay for needed transit improvements, neighborhood amenities, or other community benefits. Read the report here...
Payments In Lieu of Taxes: Balancing Municipal and Nonprofit Interests Prepared by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy In recent years, local government revenue pressures have led to heightened interest in payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs), which are payments made voluntarily by tax-exempt nonprofits and a substitute for property taxes. This report provides case studies of several municipalities that have pursued PILOTs in the past decade, as well as a broader picture of PILOT use in the United States. Read the report here... Book
Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes
By John Forester
The author is one of the nation's eminent scholars of progressive planning and dispute resolution in the policy arena, and in this book he focuses on a series of "hard cases" -- conflicts that appeared to be insoluble yet which were resolved in the end. Dealing with Differences, recommended by the American Planning Association, serves as an authoritative and fundamentally pragmatic pathway for anyone who has to engage in the highly contentious worlds of planning and policymaking. Learn more about the book...
Online
Looking for more "transportation policy goodness"? Then you should check out the StreetsBlog Network! StreetsBlog focuses on "sustainable transport, smart growth and livable streets issues", and brings together more than "400 blogs from all regions of the United States and beyond to highlight their best work". This includes local blogs from right here in B'more... Baltimore Skyline, Baltimore Spokes, Car Free Baltimore, Operation Orange Cone, and many others!
Do you have a Facebook page? The Baltimore Homeownership Preservation Coalition (BHPC) now has one too! "Like" BHPC on Facebook to receive regular updates in your News Feed about the Coalition's activities, and links to news stories, research reports and information related to foreclosure and neighborhood stabilization in Baltimore and beyond! |
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New Exhibition!
Baltimore: Open City | |
An open city is a place where everyone feels welcome, regardless of such things as wealth, race, age, or religion. In every neighborhood of an open city, one feels like he or she belongs.
For the exhibition Baltimore: Open City, students of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) invited scholars, activists, community-based organizations and artists to create a series of installations and workshops that investigate the ways in which Baltimore is and is not an open city.
MICA welcomes everyone to join them in exploring what a more open city might look and feel like.
The exhibition will run from April 1 through May 15, 2011 at the North Avenue Market!
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Call for Proposals!
MacArthur Foundation |
From the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, How Housing Matters is a five-year, $25 million research initiative to deepen the literature on the effect that investments in affordable housing have on social and economic outcomes, beyond shelter -- particularly in the areas of education, employment, and physical and mental health, among others.
The Foundation is currently inviting the submission of research abstracts as part of its How Housing Matters to Families and Communities research competition.
Submissions are due no later than April 8, 2011! Visit their website to learn more...
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Have a job opening you'd like to post? Please email the description to Meredith at mmishaga@bncbaltimore.org
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