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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. This empowers nonprofits to make informed targeting and fundraising decisions, thus increasing donations and support.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"Buy the Mother F Building Already" is a series of entries about best practice and worst practice in buying, holding, and developing properties for arts and culture related uses. My lament was the lack of systematic, community-wide initiatives to buy, hold, develop and preserve properties for arts and culture related uses.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Over the past twenty years a set of institutionalized funding relationships developed in which nonprofit organizations in the forms of private philanthropic foundations and “friends of” charities formed and now raise increasingly large share of revenues to help pay for public services.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. Basically, it's back to the concept of the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. The gd contractor on the master plan kept refusing my request to ask for their plans.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

RedLABOT was developed in collaboration with NASA Disaster Response Latin America, Esri , and AmeriGeo to address the gaps and challenges in disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. AWS also backs researchers through the Network of Earth Observation Laboratories for Disaster Risk Reduction (RedLABOT).

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Third place issues

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " Back to school #2: education unions should create multifaceted public education "meeting halls" comparable to AIA chapter "architecture centers" " (2016). s As You Are bar issues fundraising appeal to prevent closure ," Washington Blade. Union halls and fraternal organizations too (like the Masons). Photo: " D.C.’s