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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

As CEO of Google Public Sector, I am honored to join the board with these distinguished professionals, each of whom brings diverse perspectives and rich experiences to our leadership team. His previous leadership roles include Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Associate Director for Military Affairs, CIA, and many others.

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Creative Placemaking in Braddock, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

These learning exchanges, which include technical and leadership training and tours of creative placemaking and revitalization projects, are an opportunity for the fellows to learn in and from each other’s communities. In 2009, the nonprofit Greater Valley Community Services opened their doors in a former Salvation Army building.

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Mourning Gus Frangos (1955 – 2024)

Center for Community Progress

Beginning with the founding of the Cuyahoga Land Bank in 2009 , his approach to land banking set a new standard for what these institutions could achieve. It is not an exaggeration to say that Gus shaped the national landscape of land banking.

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Digital health in the Asia-Pacific: Making services more sustainable

AWS Public Sector Blog

Take the Asia-Pacific region, where spending on healthcare per person is now 80 percent higher than it was in 2009. Find more AWS Institute thought leadership for public service leaders. They need sustainable solutions to address affordability. The analysis identifies potential benefits, such as cost savings of USD 21.6

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (Part 3)

Barrett & Greene

Norton & Company, (2004) Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness , Penguin Books (2009) and the more recent revision, Thaler and Sunstein, Nudge: The Final Edition , Penguin Books (2021. Moynihan, and Gregg G.

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La Manplesa: documentary on the Latino "riots" in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of DC, 1991

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And the leadership of the city had to say, ‘We understand why you’re angry, this isn’t an appropriate behavior for your anger but we’re going to do something about it.’ But the 2009 blog entry indicates that the problem continues. I had only lived in DC for about 4 years when this happened.

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Grant Decision Making. How do you choose which grants to chase?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

As grant writers, we’re sometimes in a position of responding to requests from well-intentioned leadership or program staff to “look at this grant opportunity” or asking, “can you help us find funding for this project?” Remember 2008/2009, the Great Recession? Who determines which projects will receive grant-funded support?