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How NPOs and NGOs embrace digital transformation for sustainability with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

They often lead and implement projects aimed at conserving natural habitats and restoring degraded ecosystems. Since its database opened in 2012, more than 30,000 researchers from 90 countries have registered to use UK Biobank, resulting in more than 10,000 scientific publications, including significant discoveries about various diseases.

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How the Tri-COG Land Bank is Transforming Vacant Properties in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

By: Liz Kozub I got my start in transforming vacant properties in 2012 as an intern for the City of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a dense community of just over 2,000 residents with tremendous community pride. I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets.

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Retaining Generation X and Generation Z federal employees: Three ways Congress can help

Partnership for Public Service

Specifically, we considered Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980)—which is the future of federal senior leadership—and Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012)—which represents the future of the federal workforce.

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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)

The leadership of the FHLBs, along with various beneficiaries of their subsidies, has also begun to aggressively lobby and advocate against virtually any proposed change that it views as detrimental to its bottom line. 5 The similar key behaviors exhibited by both F&F and the FHLBanks should not come as a surprise.

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Lessons Learned from TANF Clients

Barrett & Greene

In researching the 26-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program recently, we had the chance to talk with Mary Beth Vogel-Ferguson, a University of Utah research professor who has spent the last 23 years in a state-funded project to interview TANF clients and share results with agency management and senior leadership. “My

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC ," 2011, " Silver line reshaping commercial office market in Fairfax County ," 2015, and " Without the right planning "controls" you can't stop change: Loudoun County and rail service in Northern Virginia ," 2012). Washington Post , July 13, 2003. You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ," (2021) -- " Revisiting St. to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.