HUD Secretary Julian Castro to Begin Prosperity Playbook Community Tour
The “Prosperity Playbook”will be a compilation of online resources written for and by state and local decision makers. Source: HUD
States Strive to Eliminate Costly Construction Delays
GovExec / Route Fifty
True Neighborhood Revitalization Requires a Holistic Approach
Derek Prall / American City & County
Let’s Build Something Together: An Aspirational Infrastructure Tour of 5 Cities
Ron Littlefield / Governing.com
The 3rd Platform: How Will It Impact State, Local Governments in 2016?
The 3rd Platform, refers to the innovative powerhouse of cloud computing, mobile, big data and social, and consists of millions of apps, billions of users and trillions of things. And in 2016, this plaform will offer constituent-serving benefits leading to big payoffs for state and local governments. – i360
How Agencies are Attracting a Well-educated, Younger, and Talented Workforce
Federal News Radio
How Cities Can Grow the Maker Movement Report
National League of Cities
Why the Collaboration of Government and High-Tech Is Smart
GovExec
The Start-Up City Is Coming to GovLove
From ELGL.ORG
California Lets More Water Flow to Farms and Cities
Infrastructure and Environment from Governing.com
5 Ways to Get Millennials to Choose Government
By Philip Joyce Governing.com
Financing Success – Three Nominees for the American City & County Crown Community Awards
American City & County
HUD Makes $40 Million Available for Housing Counseling Grants
– HUD
The “Housing First” Model of Housing People Before Asking Them to Get Clean and Sober is No Longer a New, Fringe Idea
– Vancouver (WA) Housing Authority / The Columbian
Don’t Miss the National Grants Management Association Annual Grants Training Program
March 29 − 31, 2016
Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA
What It Takes to Be a 21st Century City
By Nicole Dupuis / National League of Cities
Surveyors Push for Data Sharing with States Ahead of 2020 Census
SLGov
National Association for County, Community and Economic Development
Mark Your Calendar
Announcing the 2016 NACCED Annual Conference and Training dates: 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.
Information on registration and room reservations is forthcoming.
Learn More About NACCED
How to Create Your Year Two Annual Action Plan in IDIS as a Copy of Year One
IDIS allows grantees to create copies of the annual Action Plan in order to create a new version, or to copy prior year information to the current year.
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