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CIL reprint: Your Digital Life After You

Librarian.net

When my father died six years ago, we were pleased to find a Google Document with the usernames and passwords to every account he ?owned? Most of these accounts were things like bank account?s s and cable subscriptions, but a few were email accounts and (small) social media profiles. dropbox.com/en/help/488.

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Three Ways Agencies Can Drive Measurable Results Across the Organization 

Government Technology Insider

I also introduced a revolutionary framework called Results-Based Accountability (RBA), which offers organizations a practical roadmap to improve societal outcomes by aligning their efforts with shared results and specific, data-driven indicators. If they have never had to do it, why change?

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Choosing a Grant Database Based on Your Needs and Budget

Peak Proposals

Tracking Research Results : A second benefit of using a grant database is that many databases give you the opportunity to save your search results within your account or export them; the benefit of the latter option is that you can access your research results without having to log back into the database. Cost: Instrumentl costs $162/month.

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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)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. As the government has successfully implemented low downpayment mortgage products, closing costs now account for roughly half of all the cash needed upfront by many first-time homebuyers to purchase a home.

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Why Federal Down Payment Assistance and Closing Cost Reform Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In fact, over the ten-year period from 2014 to 2023, it was even lower, averaging just 6.4 4 See National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, with respect to 2023, [link] and its predecessor documents for the previous nine years. The typical FTHB down payment is nowhere near the historic 20 percent level.

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities. Linton Delainey is councillor for Ward 6.