AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With our unique mix of technology, youth culture, and creative peer-to-peer engagement, DoSomething members have completed more than 94,000 hours of service, and have registered nearly 420,000 young people to vote since 2018, with a 62 percent turnout rate—more than 12 percent higher than the national average.

Nonprofit 162

Nonprofit Engagement Voting Management 162

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. Those who didn’t resign would have faced a public hearing seeking their removal, the people said. We thank the commissioners for their service to our county.”

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Voting Coordinator Advocacy 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. I don't think I was aware at the time of the Denver Scientific and Cultural Facilities District , which operates at a multicounty scale.

Voting 52

Voting Local Government Communications Legislation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, in the latest phase of urban attraction--post 2010--that's no longer the case. Mostly people moved into buildings that had been vacant. Basically as the city has increased its attractiveness, the highest income groups "pioneer" an increasing number of neighborhoods. gentrification crisis?

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, blogs and photo sharing sites illustrate the flexibility of ICT platforms in supporting collective action and social movements while the mediums themselves are both inexpensive to operate and instantaneous; multiple messages can be conveyed clearly and consistently over the course of movement evolution.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots 40

Poverty & Policy

MAY 26, 2017

The Coalition on Human Needs chose 185 such programs and tracked their funding from 2010, the year before Congress passed the Budget Control Act, through the budget the federal government’s operating under now. How then they may vote, as it doesn’t say, but needn’t.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting Housing Social Media Education 40