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AWS Nonprofit Credit Program expands support for nonprofits of all sizes

AWS Public Sector Blog

Accelerating impact with the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program Since the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program launched in 2016, AWS has provided thousands of nonprofits around the world with computing credits and technical expertise. To help reach audiences across Africa, ONE launched a mobile chatbot built on AWS.

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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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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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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In Part 3, I describe what implementable policy leverage points make sense, in my view. This simple advocacy narrative is even generalized, not restricting MH to the geographies where it currently has a high market share, i.e., lower population density areas where land is readily available and inexpensive. Of the total of 6.7

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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? The two portfolios together peaked at over $1.5

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs. And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Advocacy groups like Feet First of Seattle and Starkville in Motion (Mississippi) have utilized walk to school initiatives as a way to drive pedestrian improvements more broadly across their respective Safety is a key element.