Creating Economic Development in Your Digital City
John Gordon / RouteFifty – GovExec

Campaign to Improve Response to Rape Victims
“Start by Believing Campaign” – End Violence Against Women / By Amanda Weber, NEWS 4 San Antonio

Proud Ground Helps Woman Go From Homeless to Homeowner
Grant using ZoomGrants allows her to buy Washougal house
Source: The Columbian

Why Mixing Business With Politics Is Becoming More Popular
Taking a stance can not only benefit a cause but also a company. Alan Greenblatt / Governing.com

Repairing the Bridges to Nowhere
Local governments are improving their failing infrastructure through creative funding and increasing the density of growing communities
By Robert Barkin / American City and County

Planning Counts When It Comes to Great Urban Parks Systems
By Laura Bliss/ CityLab

HUD and VA Team Up to Find Permanent Homes for 5,200 Veterans Experiencing Homelessness
/ HUD

4 Tips for Tackling Citizen-Centric Design and Outreach
How to address the shortfalls in human-centered design has elicited innovative solutions to the all-too-common problems of public service. By Eyragon Eidam / Government Technology

Final Round of Promise Zone Communities Named
Nine new Promise Zones join 13 others to expand economic opportunity in distressed areas / Source: HUD

Solar-Powered Florida Community Planned For Self-Driving Cars
Source:Clean Technica

Infrastructure: A Problem That Must Be Solved
Lessons on taking the long view from former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood / By Ron Littlefield – Governing.com

Massachusetts House Debates Hydropower, Wind Energy Bill
Source: Shira Schoenberg / Mass Live

Denver Positions It’s Role as a Hub City for Smart City Challenge Bid
By John Tomasic / Route Fifty

Break it Down: Increasing Women in Local Government Leadership
By Sarah Hendricks for Engaging Local Government Leaders

Why Sustainability Should be America’s ‘Grand Strategy’
A business plan for America, born at the Pentagon / By Joel Makower, Mark “Puck” Mykleby, Patrick Doherty – GreenBiz

6 Things Cities Can Do When Commercial Space Becomes
Unaffordable

Source: CitiesSpeak/National League of Cities

National Community Development Association
2016 NCDA Annual Conference
June 22-25, 2016 Milwaukee, WI
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
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National Association for County, Community and Economic Development
Announcing the
2016 NACCED 41st Annual Educational Conference and Training
September 11-14 in Pittsburgh, PA. Hosted by Allegheny County, this year’s conference is themed “Building Bridges for a Better Tomorrow, Today” and will be held at the Pittsburgh City Center
Marriott Hotel.
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