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She Wears Many Hats: Block Leadership and Civic Engagement with Jen Devor

Iron Sharpens Iron

From her work on the island of Point Breeze all the way to her citywide campaign for public office in 2019, Jen believes that being a good listener and making people feel heard are the secrets to building authentic relationships that stand the test of time… and neighborhood feuds.

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She Wears Many Hats: Block Leadership and Civic Engagement with Jen Devor

Iron Sharpens Iron

From her work on the island of Point Breeze all the way to her citywide campaign for public office in 2019, Jen believes that being a good listener and making people feel heard are the secrets to building authentic relationships that stand the test of time… and neighborhood feuds.

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Digital public infrastructure is high priority for governments worldwide

AWS Public Sector Blog

Publicly accessible digital twins, such as those produced by Helsinki , Singapore , and Boston , are another innovative type of DPI, providing a shared virtual environment that enables collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and public engagement for the development of urban infrastructure and services.

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Evaluating long-term value in migrating ERP and SIS applications to AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The value of a customer-obsessed cloud provider Core to AWS’s identity is its customer-obsessed culture, codified in Amazon’s leadership principles. Since 2019, two separate hurricanes forced their data centers offline.

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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities. This program has helped dozens of community members expand their leadership, commitment, and role in strengthening their neighborhoods.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

Community Progress commends leadership at HUD and FHA for this effort and understanding of the need to make opportunities like the 203(k) program more accessible and functional. Many communities that Community Progress serves struggle to access financing products, and loan products for both acquisition and rehabilitation are even scarcer.

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Advancing Fairfield County as a Tech Hub

The Whistle Post

million earmarked for employer engagement and workforce training by the co-conveners of the Southwest Connecticut Tech Hub. One of the early efforts to lay the groundwork for developing a regional tech hub in Southwest Connecticut was Governor Ned Lamont’s Office of Workforce Strategy in 2019.