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Baltimore Heritage's 2011 Awards Celebration
June 10, 4:30pm - 8:00pm, Baltimore MD
Join Baltimore Heritage for an evening under the tents in historic Union Square for the 2011 Awards Celebration. This year the event will include a number of open houses around the Square, as well as music, food and drink, and of course a presentation of the year's best historic preservation accomplishments and the people behind them. Learn more & register...
Greening Historic Communities Symposium
June 15 - June 16, Wilmington DE
The U.S. EPA invites you to join other experts and industry leaders in the fields of preservation, green building technology, sustainable community and city planning, community development, and government in this one-and-a-half day interactive symposium. Feedback from attendees will be recorded and examined by the EPA to be used as new policy is formulated. Learn more & register...
Land Trusts in Maryland: Learning Through Case Studies
June 20, 9:00am - 4:00pm, Baltimore MD
Affordable Housing Land Trusts are the newest tool for creating permanent affordable housing in Maryland. Join experts from the Institute for Community Economics, Evergreen Consulting, Klein Horning LLC, and others to hear about the outcomes of four case studies and learn how Affordable Housing Land Trusts work practically. 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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FY2012 Community Investment Tax Credits (CITCs)
Training sessions: June 14 - July 13, 2011
Application deadline: to be announced
Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply in a competitive round for CITCs to support a project or activity that is either located in or serving a community in a Priority Funding Area. A series of application training sessions are being offered in June and July to provide an overview of the CITC program and review what is expected of applicants. For more information...
Open Spaces Sacred Places National Awards Program
Informational webinar: June 16, 2011
Application deadlines: September 1, 2011 (optional planning grant) and June 30, 2012 (awards program)
The Open Spaces Sacred Places (OSSP) National Awards will fund cross-disciplinary teams of designers, research social scientists and community-based organizations to create and study a series of new public green spaces. As an optional first step in the OSSP Awards process, applicants may apply for a planning grant of up to $50,000. For more information...
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Reports
Housing Policy is School Policy: Economically Integrative Housing Promotes Academic Success in Montgomery County, Maryland
By Heather Schwartz for the Century Foundation
The education reform debate is dominated by efforts to make high-poverty schools work better, but this report suggests that a more promising strategy involves providing low-income families a chance to live in more-advantaged neighborhoods, where their children can attend low-poverty public schools. Read the report here...
Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America From the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings This report analyzes route and schedule information from 371 transit systems in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas and examines how well these systems serve residents and connect them to employment. The report also highlights the need for better collection of data to drive smarter decision-making. Read the report here...
Dangerous by Design 2011: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths
From Transportation for America
This report spotlights the issue of pedestrian safety and the factors that make walking dangerous. The authors use ten years of pedestrian fatality data, as well as newly-released Census data on walking, to rank the country's largest metropolitan areas. They also mine the data for details on the demographics of pedestrians and what types of roads are the most dangerous. Read the report here... Also includes an online mapping tool! Book
Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing
By James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge
For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. In contrast, this book paints a more critical picture of community work, while also addressing the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy. The authors are academics in the fields of urban planning, public policy and social work. Learn more about this book...
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Now Opening!
Baltimore Farmers' Markets | |
It's that time of year again... Baltimore farmers' markets are opening up all over the city!
Here are just a few:
-Park Heights Community Farmers' Market website
Are none of these farmers' markets near you? Check out the Maryland Department of Agriculture's 2011 Farmers' Market Directory. (Newer markets may not be listed yet.)
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In the News...
Mayor Signs Green & Healthy Homes Compact | |
On May 20th, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake joined regional and national advocates for healthy, safe and energy efficient households in the signing of the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) Compact for the City of Baltimore.
GHHI is designed as a comprehensive approach to offer integrated health, safety, lead hazard reduction, energy efficiency, and weatherization interventions in low to moderate income homes.
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Check out area job openings on the BNC Community Development Job Bank.
Have a job opening you'd like to post? Please email the description to Meredith at mmishaga@bncbaltimore.org
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To include items in next month's BNC Around Town, email them to Meredith at mmishaga@bncbaltimore.org
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