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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. Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) acts as extensible and robust storage for housing user-uploaded photos and videos, user-entered stories, and journal entries persisted by the application. How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa.

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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)

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them.

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Arbor Day: Street Trees of Seattle by Taha Ebrahimi | Trees as Cultural Landscape (at the community scale)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Street Trees of Seattle is an interesting book. She chose to do this by drawing, and for the purposes of the book, she organized the content by neighborhood, focused on the primary type of tree "dominating" that particular neighborhood, although each section does list other significant trees that are also present.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

Because my job was exclusively teaching – I taught four sections of writing courses every fall and spring semester – I didn’t have much time to continue pursuing research or turning my dissertation into a book project, the usual next step in my field. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. This is common for many cities--no public restrooms.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Alzheimer’s, veterans, or energy) you may want to look for funding opportunities sponsored by foundations and advocacy organizations associated with these issues. First, if the grant writer is in-house, she’ll know your institution’s policies and procedures related to grant development. Robertson, Stephen W.

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National Volunteer Week: April 16th-22nd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Friends of the Salt Lake City Library, which covers all of the libraries in the city, is particularly good (" Outdoor library book sale as an opportunity for "social bridging"/triangulation "). Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House. This week: How about volunteering in something?