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Why Restorative Justice Matters

First State Insights

Kim Book, Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Victims’ Voices Heard, speaks with Danielle Vota and Ruth Decosse, conflict resolution practitioners at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about why restorative justice matters. First State Insights is a podcast presented by IPA.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

Dr. Whitson, former chief astronaut at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), completed her first mission to space in 2002—with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. Peggy Whitson, Director of Human Space Flight, Astronaut, Axiom Space.

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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

Geospatial data, including many climate and weather datasets, are often released by government and nonprofit organizations in compressed file formats such as the Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) or GRIdded Binary (GRIB). NetCDF data can be stored as chunks within a file, enabling parallel reads and writes on different chunks.

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She Wears Many Hats: Block Leadership and Civic Engagement with Jen Devor

Iron Sharpens Iron

She recently co-founded the nonpartisan nonprofit Better Civics. A Philly resident since 2002, she has held leadership positions at Campus Philly, Diversified Community Services, Neighbors Investing in Childs Elementary, and Committee of Seventy among others. She recently co-founded the nonpartisan nonprofit Better Civics.

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She Wears Many Hats: Block Leadership and Civic Engagement with Jen Devor

Iron Sharpens Iron

She recently co-founded the nonpartisan nonprofit Better Civics. A Philly resident since 2002, she has held leadership positions at Campus Philly, Diversified Community Services, Neighbors Investing in Childs Elementary, and Committee of Seventy among others. She recently co-founded the nonpartisan nonprofit Better Civics.

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Partnership unveils the 2024 Service to America Medals® finalists

Partnership for Public Service

Science, Technology and Environment – recognizing a federal employee or team for a contribution in fields such as medicine, economics, energy, information technology, space, meteorology and resource conservation. You can read more about this year’s nominees here. You can also select this year’s People’s Choice Award winner.

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

Until the government runs more like a business than a nonprofit, it is my belief that we will see continued pension, borrowing and bankruptcy issues in a more widespread manner in years to come. Sources: Anonymous. 2012, April). Headlee Rollback and Headlee Override. Detroit files for largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. Miller, Mark.

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