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How NPOs and NGOs embrace digital transformation for sustainability with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

These organizations play a pivotal role in promoting environmental sustainability through advocacy, conservation projects, community engagement, and research. They often lead and implement projects aimed at conserving natural habitats and restoring degraded ecosystems.

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Call for Chapters: Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development #ACRLPublication

A Library Writer's Blog

EDITED BY: Wendy Pothier , University of New Hampshire & Ilana Stonebraker, Indiana University OVERVIEW: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), first adopted in 2012, have worked in tandem with worldwide climate concerns to alter the way we approach the environment, poverty, gender inequality, hunger and worldwide trade.

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Gosh, years ago I wrote about an approach to planning I called "action planning," focused on implementation, and to be successful included elements of social marketing and branding and identity. and often people don't understand when treatments are implemented, often with little community involvement.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Intra-district shuttle systems Item # 5 in " Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 2: Program items 1 - 9 ," discusses how to implement an integrated parking-shuttle system in Silver Spring, Maryland. Salt Lake already has a best practice program called Livable Streets , and they are implementing it across the city.

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NonProfits & Branding – The Paradigm Shift

Public Policy Blog

Many nonprofits use their brands primarily as a fundraising tool, but a growing number of nonprofits are developing a broader and more strategic approach, managing their brands to create greater social impact and tighter organizational cohesion ( Kylander & Stone, 2012 ) attempting to act as catalysts of change in the world.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. In summary, the reforms that were called for by many critics of F&F prior to 2008, but which never happened, have been substantially implemented within conservatorship.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Instead, despite the adoption of the new and much higher official regulatory capital requirement in 2020, the agency just delayed the implementation of the higher capital level for two years. And will any change be implemented quickly or perhaps incrementally over several years? Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30