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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

It functions as an online memory book for surviving siblings. Any surviving sibling can go to SibsForever.org to create a no-cost account and build commemorative web pages for their sibling and sibling relationship, including photo and video galleries featuring themselves and their siblings.

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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)

To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12]

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A few years ago when I was doing research on public markets I came across the book Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food and Community , which posits a more locally controlled and democratically involved regional food system, as opposed to the one we have, dominated by huge corporations. It's an interesting book.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. 2] As measured by dollars outstanding. excluding home equity loans) financing.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? But is this argument valid? For several reasons, in my view, the argument is not substantially valid. Also, the 0.10 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7]

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The State of Library Marketing in 2025: Survey Reveals New Obstacles and Frustrations

Super Library Marketing

An academic library marketer said, The university marketing department has completely shut down the library social media accounts and we cannot send mass emails. All print materials must be approved and abide by the campus brand book.