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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021. However, because the person responsible for managing the land bank also works in these other areas, they bring that breadth of expertise to the table and can more efficiently coordinate with municipal and county government departments. Speak with a unified voice.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. In these countries responsibility for coordinating local emergency actions is delegated to the regions. The local level. The voluntary sector.

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How three AWS IMAGINE Grant winners are transforming the future of games, music, and health with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

A 2021 AWS IMAGINE Grant winner, the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be The Match finds donor matches and reduces human error, which ultimately results in improved patient outcomes by making near real-time suggestions using advanced analytics on AWS.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. Appraisals.

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Pediatric cancer researchers use AWS to accelerate Cancer Moonshot

AWS Public Sector Blog

Today, CBTN—which runs via a coordinating center at CHOP—has data sharing agreements with 32 institutions around the globe. To Jace Ward, who passed away in 2021 from DIPG, this urgency was important to convey.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Seattle's Feet First advocacy group is a great resource for such programs. Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).