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Optimizing learning experiences amid increasingly blurred lines between physical, digital classrooms

Google Public Sector

Since early 2020, we’ve grown from a team of 10 to 30, with a big investment in our product and engineering to help serve the additional 10x increase in our user base. How was Classkick able to manage this while keeping operations consistent? Fernando: That is a significant amount of growth in a rather short period of time.

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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

In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) In Manhattan, average rent prices have risen 15 percent from their levels just before the Covid-19 shutdown, and things aren’t much better in the other boroughs. (In Suitable spaces are passed down, sublet, shared in secret.

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Celebrating the 2022 Sammies honorees

Partnership for Public Service

Dr. Anthony Fauci, our 2020 Federal Employee of the Year , presented the award to his friend and colleague, saying that he “epitomizes the outstanding caliber of public servants found at the National Institutes of Health.”. Behind, from left to right: Holly Herrera, Brian McKeon, Muzhgan Azizy, Kiera Berdinner.

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

DIIA launched in 2020, was the centrepiece of this effort. In the three-and-a-half years that the anti-corruption court has been operating, 65 people have been convicted in it, including 20 judges and several MPs and senior officials. Turkeys, it seems, will always find it hard to vote for Christmas.

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The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How One Libary Marketing Team Executed a Grand Opening of Epic Proportions for Their New Library Building

Super Library Marketing

It took another 17 years for the library to secure the funding and property they needed for the construction and operation of a new facility. There was an upside to this approach: the new building could be constructed without interruption to day-to-day operations. Then the project hit a snag.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural ecosystem element a key addition: -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," (2015) and in 2019 I added another point that was a given, but hadn't been codified into its own point, (..)

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More than a quarter of ambassador positions are without a Senate-confirmed official, hindering American diplomacy

Partnership for Public Service

is operating its foreign policy without Senate-confirmed appointees in more than one quarter of all top diplomatic posts. Representative to the Organization for American States were submitted to the Senate nearly a year ago and are still awaiting votes. A year and a half into President Joe Biden’s administration, the U.S. 18, 2021.