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Government grants are complicated and often beyond the capacity of small organizations to manage

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This is true with a lot of government related grants to property owners for commercial district revitalization work, especially facades, or a program in SF to help business owners whose properties are damaged from vandalism but gives paltry amounts (" San Francisco restaurants grapple with vandalism ," San Francisco Chronicle ).

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US government agencies can communicate, collaborate securely with AWS Wickr

AWS Public Sector Blog

In one case, a messaging app with more than 40 million customers notified users that their accounts were potentially revealed to hackers who breached one of their gateway providers. All government-related activities must be conducted using approved services that meet security, privacy, and data retention requirements.

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Building trust in federal government: Using social media to engage youth

Partnership for Public Service

Survey insights: Social media’s influence on youth perceptions In September 2023, the Partnership for Public Service conducted an online survey that among other things, sought to examine how different groups of people interact with government-related stories. Hopefully, more agencies and offices will follow their lead.

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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

As states consider tax-based approaches to bridging the gap, businesses and individuals will need to alter their strategic planning to account for potential tax increases. Joe Crosby serves as Chairman & CEO of MultiState Associates, the nation’s leading state and local government relations services firm.

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Understanding Compliance Between Commercial, Government, DoD & Secret Offerings - Sept 2024 Update

Microsoft Public Sector

Both Commercial and GCC data enclaves require personnel screening validations that are tied to access control requirements: Commercial screening does not require US Citizenship and other US Government related requirements necessary to support the management of US government regulated data (e.g.

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How to build a multilingual document summarization application using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Public Sector Blog

Imagine you have hundreds of documents in any of the major languages used in India describing state policies and other important governance-related content. Cleanup To avoid future charges in your account, delete the resources you created in this walkthrough. This configuration supports the principle of least privilege.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and This is a sad truth.