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Student training program tackles Thailand’s air pollution with help from AirGradient, AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

These devices enable students to actively engage in the collection and analysis of air quality data, equipping them with essential skills to address environmental challenges.” Since 2015, AWS has made major investments in Thailand, serving customers and unlocking transformation across industries. School chairman Mechai Viravaidya.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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Call for Proposals: ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium (New York City - December 6th, 2024)

A Library Writer's Blog

ACRL’s strategic plan and ALA’s Core Values of access, equity, intellectual freedom and privacy, public good, and sustainability can inform this conversation. Later, in 2015, Gorman published a subsequent edition titled Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World. How do we apply our values to our daily work?

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What Should You Be Doing: Fundraising or Pursuing Grant Money?

Peak Proposals

Based on hundreds of emails we’ve received since we launched Peak Proposals in 2015, we have observed that many people appear to assume that if you are a nonprofit organization and if you need revenue, then you must pursue grant funding. This is not the case.

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CFP: LOEX Fall Focus 2023 Conference (Online - November 2023) - Welcoming New Students & Building Professional Communities

A Library Writer's Blog

LOEX Fall Focus 2023 Conference Call for Proposals Mid-November 2023 * Online As mentioned in the previous Currents, LOEX is holding a Fall Focus conference, our first since 2015—only this time it will be online.

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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

In the 2015 budget process, the city engaged in a streamlined PBB process, recognizing the significant work that had been done in prior years, as well as the demands on staff related to flood recovery and the implementation of an integrated Finance and Human Resources business solutions software package.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Like the idea of individual resiliency, “community resilience is a measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations” ( RAND Corporation ). Many scholars of community resilience have highlighted the key role of social capital for community resilience.