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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

AWS Public Sector Blog

Advocacy is about taking action in real time, so we need to reach people wherever they are. By the end of 2020, 495 million people subscribed to mobile services in Sub-Saharan Africa, representing 46% of the region’s population – an increase of almost 20 million from 2019. Using AWS to deliver on our mission.

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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The application offers a secure and private platform for surviving siblings to chronicle memories through storytelling, pictures, and videos. I founded SibsForever in August 2020. I relied heavily on documented best practices for building a resilient, secure, and scalable application.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

Beginning in 2020, the organization has embarked on an unprecedented plan to preserve or build 2,000 units of affordable housing over the next five years, including 1,250 affordable multifamily units, 500 affordable homeownership units, and 250 single-family rental units. Source: Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership.

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Providing transparency into government requests for enterprise data

Google Public Sector

Last October, we committed to publish this information in early 2020 , and future transparency reports will continue to include it. For the first time, it breaks out the number of government requests we received for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Enterprise Cloud customer data.

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Simplifying the Online Employee Onboarding Process in Park Agencies

Let's Talk Parks

An employee onboarding portal can be defined a little differently: “An employee portal is a secure site where you can easily share and discuss information within your company or organization , and keep all your staff on the same page.” If you were around in 2020, then you know that certain policies and procedures can change FAST.

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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)

The F&F core business of securitizing and guaranteeing loans essentially takes the below-market cost of the funds raised by issuing mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which reflects the implied guarantee, and passes that subsidized cost through to primary market lenders. Growing profits by exploiting the implied guarantee.

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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is also a plan afoot to extend Frontrunner to Boise and Las Vegas (" Train corridors proposed connecting Boise, Las Vegas to Salt Lake City ," Fox13) along the lines of how I suggest multi-state rail planning should be working anyway, see " Two train/regional transit ideas: Part 1 | Amtrak should acquire Greyhound ").