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DoSomething’s journey with AWS brings efficiency, scalability

AWS Public Sector Blog

With our unique mix of technology, youth culture, and creative peer-to-peer engagement, DoSomething members have completed more than 94,000 hours of service, and have registered nearly 420,000 young people to vote since 2018, with a 62 percent turnout rate—more than 12 percent higher than the national average.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As of 2024, it’s never been harder for artists to find a place to work. Artists can and will work anywhere and, like their work itself, they’re limited only by the extent of their imaginations — and their finances. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. Campaign flyers for the Bring Chicago Home referendum at a march to the polls event March 9, 2024, in Chicago.

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Thanks Obama! (for saving my life)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many Republican states refused to participate in this, although a number did, and over time more red states are participating, although many still not (" 2024 Session: Health care a driving issue — but don't talk about Medicaid expansion ," Tallahassee Democrat ). Obamacare included Medicaid expansion. Kaiser Family Foundation).