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Kathryn Pettit

@kpettitdc.bsky.social

Senior Fellow, Urban Institute and Co-director, National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership. Views my own.

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Our @urbaninstitute.bsky.social team is so proud to be supporting 25 dedicated organizations in the 2025 cohort working to improving the criminal legal system in their communities. Follow me here to read this fall about the results from the 2024 grantees.

11.08.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cutting Federal Grants to Libraries and Museums Will Weaken Communities and Endanger Our Heritage The Institute of Museum and Library Services provides crucial funding for irreplaceable community institutions and makes up a tiny fraction of the federal budget.

Thanks to the Institute for Museum and Library Studies, Civic Switchboard spurred public & academic libraries to improve access to data about community conditions and resources. IMLS cuts will be felt in communities around the US as libraries lose this critical support. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social

02.05.2025 13:32 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

So happy that the Catalyst Grant Program can support local projects like these for courts around the country to learn from to reduce missed court dates. Stay tuned for other lessons related to courts and prosecutors' offices.

30.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Building a Climate-Resilient Manufactured Housing Stock This report provides the first holistic assessment of manufactured housing and climate resilience.

Thrilled to share new research we've been working on for the past year. We report on a nationwide analysis of manufactured housing and climate hazards, and the results of interviews with 40+ experts from across the manufactured housing ecosystem:

www.urban.org/research/pub...

03.02.2025 16:05 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
"Local Data for Equitable Communities" is in bold text. Below that, a line drawing shows a vibrant community scene with houses, an apartment building, a bus stop, a playground and people of various ages walking, biking, and playing. The scene has a city skyline in the background and is accented with pastel-colored circles highlighting different parts of the community.

"Local Data for Equitable Communities" is in bold text. Below that, a line drawing shows a vibrant community scene with houses, an apartment building, a bus stop, a playground and people of various ages walking, biking, and playing. The scene has a city skyline in the background and is accented with pastel-colored circles highlighting different parts of the community.

📢 Exciting news as my first Bluesky post! New Local Data for Equitable Communities CFP from @rwjf.bsky.social and @urbaninstitute.bsky.social for #nonprofits using data to advance #equity in the physical, economic and social conditions that affect health. Learn more at urbn.is/localdatagrant

04.02.2025 21:00 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

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