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Disaster Accountability Project

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

The Disaster Accountability Project was created to help coordinate nongovernmental organizational efforts. Soon after, Ben launched Disaster Accountability Project, an independent watchdog, to confront the root causes of the failed Katrina response and maximize the impact of billions of dollars of disaster relief and humanitarian aid.

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Long-term Disaster Resilience

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

The Disaster Accountability Project was created to help coordinate nongovernmental organizational efforts. Soon after, Ben launched Disaster Accountability Project, an independent watchdog, to confront the root causes of the failed Katrina response and maximize the impact of billions of dollars of disaster relief and humanitarian aid.

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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

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. Building SibsForever.org has required patience, commitment, and skilled leadership. Lessons learned.

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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

The passage of the ADA was preceded by years of activism and advocacy-group efforts. Significant changes across the public and private sectors were needed so disabled individuals could fully participation in public and economic life in the United States. That March, for example, more than 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

Community Progress commends leadership at HUD and FHA for this effort and understanding of the need to make opportunities like the 203(k) program more accessible and functional. Most land banks have some type of enforcement mechanism or claw back provision to hold purchasers accountable, which can pose challenges for FHA underwriting.

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Top 6 agenda items for changemakers in 2022

Bang the Table

Run a community advocacy program . For those of you preparing for local elections, now is the time to kick off your community advocacy program to ensure you access the necessary funds and meet the growing needs of your community. . Account for skills & experience shortages.

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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

Work with pretty much any public sector leadership team after a flood or fire or similar natural cataclysm and the talk will be all admiration and yearning for the kind of instinctive collaboration that suddenly breaks out, at least so long as the emergency lasts. We want it but can’t ever seem to really deliver it. Except in a good crisis.