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New Mexico delivers customer-obsessed human services programs powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The state’s Human Services Department (HSD) manages a budget of $7 billion of state and federal funds as it works to transform the lives of 800,000 low-income New Mexicans. Shanita Harrison is HSD’s customer innovation director, a role created in 2020. That’s one of the highest rates in the US.

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Stop Soldier Suicide partners with Pariveda, AWS on mission to reduce suicide rates among US service members and veterans

AWS Public Sector Blog

Suicide rates among veterans continued to climb from 2001 to 2018 before dipping back for 2019 and 2020. In 2020, there were 6,146 veteran suicides, which averages to 16.8 To optimize for SSS’s budget and modest data volume, we’ve developed a custom AWS Lambda image capable of running Apache Spark within the runtime.

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Concerts for Carers uses AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora to deliver ticketing and events platform at any scale

AWS Public Sector Blog

Charitable organizations see spikes in activity as they respond to disasters, host seasonal events, and perform outreach to their donor base during fundraising appeals. For this reason, the AWS for UK Nonprofits team hosted a Twitch series that explored the use of AWS serverless services to build a donations platform.

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Our Report on Public Engagement Barriers

zencity

2020 was an unprecedented year for humanity. We did our own outreach into communities and learned that while some might be harder-to-reach, it’s also not impossible. Budgets and how they are allocated exist. Are you an organization that is trying to develop an inclusive engagement culture and practice in your organization?

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Meet the New Featured Contributors

GovLoop

Mary Schwarz , Managing Partner, ICF Next Government, is a digital strategist and marketing technologist with a comprehensive range of experience in direct marketing, web development, community outreach, and analytics, Mary leads our Government, federal digital and engagement practices.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Participatory Budgeting initiatives. Jose Galdamez, the city representative for the MacArthur Park Neighborhood Council, said the city is trying new outreach strategies to recruit members. They also have a small grant program for friends of parks groups.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.