The Grassroots Initiative Award recognizes planning efforts that have expanded the public understanding of the planning process and have a high degree of collaboration
between civic leadership and community interests.
Not exact matches
«Participatory budgeting is a gateway to greater
civic participation and
leadership in our communities, encouraging collaboration
between residents and local elected officials to find creative solutions to neighborhood needs,» Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan) said.
«Participatory budgeting is a gateway to greater
civic participation and
leadership in our communities, encouraging collaboration
between residents and local elected officials to find creative solutions to neighborhood needs,» said Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.
If there is a difference
between now and then, DeFrancisco is far more pleased with today's overall tenor of
civic leadership in Central New York.
The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations,
leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and
civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space
between the government and the individual (in this case,
between government and individual schools).
She is on the
leadership team of the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI), which catalyzes original research that is on the cutting edge of social science and policy through forging mutually beneficial relationships
between the region's researchers, policymakers, practitioners and
civic leaders and merging and sharing large scale administrative data sets to address policy - relevant research questions.