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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. In their previous role at the West Virginia Community Development Hub, Bennett worked as the primary statewide convener and advocate for land bank-based policies. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer.

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How Did We Get Here? Affordable Housing Policy with Andy Toy

Iron Sharpens Iron

Andy is recognized as a thought leader and innovator when it comes to community and economic development. Andy’s policy and advocacy work has included efforts to ensure everyone has a voice in their community. He founded United Voices for Philadelphia and still engages in voter registration and voting advocacy.

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10 Reasons to Invest in Your Professional Development

GovLoop

How far would you go to invest in your professional development? Are you ready to take charge of your professional development? From my personal experience, taking charge of my professional development honors my values as a lifelong learner. I needed to get intentional about my professional development plan.

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How Did We Get Here? Affordable Housing Policy with Andy Toy

Iron Sharpens Iron

Andy is recognized as a thought leader and innovator when it comes to community and economic development. Andy’s policy and advocacy work has included efforts to ensure everyone has a voice in their community. He founded United Voices for Philadelphia and still engages in voter registration and voting advocacy.

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Visions of Recovery: Reimagining Long-Term Care

First State Insights

In her current role, Katelyn leads LiveOn NY’s policy, advocacy, and communications efforts on issues related to affordable senior housing, senior centers, home-delivered meals, home care, and other services for older New Yorkers. For more information, visit [link]. For more information, visit [link].

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Jacaranda Health advances maternal and infant health across Kenya and beyond with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Jacaranda Health is a recipient of the 2021 AWS IMAGINE Grant award from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using cloud technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Unifying data to boost nonprofit fundraising outcomes.

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Data Lake for Nonprofits – powered by AWS and Salesforce.org now available to help unleash data insights

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2021, Nonprofit Trends Report, Fourth Edition reports that 36% of nonprofits invested in new technology such as customer relationship management systems (CRMs), collaboration and productivity tools, machine learning (ML), and automation. Understanding the need. Of those, 87% reported that the investment had a positive impact.