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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. Unchallenged Success Leads to Assumptions.” — The Frugal Architect, Law VII Frugality does not imply rigidity.

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Forrester study commissioned by AWS estimates an ROI of 33% from data integration

AWS Public Sector Blog

“At AWS, we’re inspired every day by our public sector customers who are leveraging data to deliver enhanced citizen services and make more informed decisions,” said Kim Majerus, vice president of global education and US state and local government at AWS. In Virginia, data integration helped battle opioid addiction.

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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Inequitable, inefficient, and ineffective laws and practices feed a cycle of poverty and disinvestment that results in property abandonment and make it harder to put properties back to equitable reuse. From 2010-2019, Franklin County, Ohio overvalued homes in predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods by as much as 50 percent.

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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

The City successfully advocated for a change to state law that would open up their ability to use in rem code lien foreclosure, a tool developed by Community Progress in 2019 for the city of Mobile. Implementing policy and practice changes that address vacancy is an enormous task, and many communities can’t do it alone.

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The Future of Recycling Programs and the Role of Community Feedback

zencity

While not all states have mandatory recycling laws, whether for disposables or organic waste, most cities and counties have some sort of voluntary or required household recycling program, separate from requirements for commercial recycling. From 2014 to 2019 alone, the number of communities offering composting programs grew by 65 percent !

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

Attending a school with a high suspension rate could mean a 15% to 20% higher likelihood of a child being incarcerated as an adult, a 2019 NBER paper finds. Low income students are 9 percentage points more likely to be suspended in a given year than their non-low-income peers, the Education Research Alliance finds.

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Fraud Detection & Prevention Symposium: Increasing Collaboration and Driving Action

The CIO Council

Increasing Collaboration Through Public-Private Sector Conversation The symposium was designed to educate, inform, and enlighten participants on where fraud challenges have been addressed and how similar solutions could be applied at their organization. We want to understand where gaps remain, and where technology solutions may be required.”