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How communities can become social innovation hot spots. Communities—cities, towns, villages, regions—can create the conditions that stimulate social innovators to transform the performance of local systems like education, economic development, health care, and more. But in most places, civic leaders don't know enough about how to do this and often shortchange their efforts or ...
New exclusive nuPOLIS report describes initiatives, programs, and strategies you can use. In a new report, Sustainable Economic Development, nuPOLIS partner James Nixon details the comprehensive approaches that that cities and regions are using to build sustainable green economies. The paper, developed for the newly launched nonprofit Urban Sustainability Associates consulting service ...
The Rudy Bruner Awards honor well-designed urban spaces, the ones that create solutions to urban problems. The award is given out every two years and recognizes places that embody good planning and good design. Bruner Award winners have given back meaningfully to the community by creating social places for people to gather, by enhancing the economic life of the city and by rescuing and reusing ...
Stephen Goldsmith's new book, "The Power of Social Innovation," examines government's potential to enable social innovators. There are two basic approaches for unleashing more social innovation and more impactful social innovation. One looks to the highly potent innovation systems built by the business sector in the last century and seeks to emulate their disciplined approach to ...
Stephen Goldsmith's new book, "The Power of Social Innovation," examines government's potential to enable social innovators. There are two basic approaches for unleashing more social innovation and more impactful social innovation. One looks to the highly potent innovation systems built by the business sector in the last century and seeks to emulate their disciplined approach to ...
This is a companion article to “Cleveland’s Comeback,” a feature article appearing in Issue 26 of NAC, available now. To read the full text of that article, by Marc Lefkowitz, click here. In July 2008, Living Cities launched the Foreclosure Mitigation Initiative to fund nationwide programming that addresses the current foreclosure crisis. Their report, “Communities at Risk ...
Each year Next American City assembles a group of the best and brightest young urban leaders and holds a conference dedicated to enlightening, inspiring and networking this cohort; the application for the 2010 event is open until March 31. Next American City is also in the run-off for a grant of $25,000 from the Pepsi Refresh project. Please vote for us! Here are just a few updates on where the ...
What do education reform, early childhood development, cultural competence, and community development have in common?A decade ago, innovators in the land-conservation field looked to a different field, economic development, for ideas about how to increase a community’s interest in conservation while boosting its economy. They combined conservation know-how with business know-how to create ...
Florida has launched a new website designed to help the state’s rural communities attract more economic development. The website will be managed by the Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI), coordinated by the Governors Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development. Visitors to the site will find information about economic development incentives and programs focused on [...]
When New Orleans recovery czar Ed Blakely packed up his office earlier this summer and left the city he had come to fix, few outside the yet-to-heal region took notice. Buried under news of the current economic storm, the headline came and went like an obituary for a past-her-prime TV actress. Yet for those living here, the unexpected departure of the single official charged with making their hometown ...
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