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Events & Trainings
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Webinar: Equitable Strategies for Growing Urban Agriculture
February 16, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Building from the recently released PolicyLink Urban Agriculture Tool, PolicyLink will be hosting a mini-series of webinars focusing on how low-income communities and communities of color are incorporating urban agriculture into their community development efforts and into policy infrastructures supporting this work. The upcoming February webinar will discuss challenges and strategies for growing and sustaining urban agriculture projects. Learn more & register...
Transportation Equity Network 2012 Conference
March 5 - March 6, Washington DC
Join the Transportation Equity Network for their 2012 conference. This year's theme is "Transit = Jobs". The event will focus on empowering community leaders and transforming federal policies while highlighting successful efforts to ensure our transportation system benefits the most vulnerable citizens across the country. Learn more & register...
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MECU Neighborhood Event Grants
Application deadline: March 30, 2012
Does your community dream of organizing a project like a street festival, flea market, health fair or block party? The MECU Neighborhood Events Grants program distributes funds to qualified neighborhood associations and community-based, nonprofit groups for the purpose of strengthening neighborhoods through producing special events. For more information...
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Books
Rebuilding America's Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland
From the American Assembly (various authors)
Born out of a major conference in Detroit, this new book explores strategies for retooling, reimagining and re-building cities that defined the nation's 20th century economy but find themselves in search of a new identity. Authored by the country's most notable urbanists, the individual chapters can be downloaded for free online.
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
By Jarrett Walker
While many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Designed for both concerned citizens and those working in the field, this book explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems, the process for fitting technology to a particular community, and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development. Learn more here...
Report
Building Assets, Strengthening Families in Baltimore
From the Annie E. Casey Foundation
This new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation describes the promising work of their partners to advance financial security for Baltimore's families their plans to help deepen the impact of that work. The report focuses on the efforts to help the city's low-income families achieve financial stability. Read the report here...
The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse
From the National Trust for Historic Preservation
This report analyzes the potential environmental benefit of building reuse and concludes that, when comparing buildings of equivalent size and function, building reuse almost always offers environmental savings over demolition and new construction. These findings offer policymakers, developers, architects and engineers evidence on the merits of reusing existing buildings. Learn more and download the report here...
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