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AWS Nonprofit Credit Program expands support for nonprofits of all sizes

AWS Public Sector Blog

Nonprofits around the world use cloud technology to improve operational efficiencies, optimize costs, and advance their missions. Promotional credit enables organizations of all sizes to scale their operations, reduce costs, and deliver more impact on their mission and the communities they serve.

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Call for Chapters: Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development #ACRLPublication

A Library Writer's Blog

Proposal Deadline: June 19, 2024 Submit Proposals here: [link] You are invited to submit an abstract for a chapter in an upcoming edited book with the working title, Academic Libraries and Sustainable Development published by ACRL.

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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)

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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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 "). While out of date in terms of current programs, the book Neighbor Power describes the first couple decades of the program.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Although the NYC Parks Department operates a massive number of restrooms in all five boroughs. And it's often done by business improvement districts and/or parks conservancies. Including some very attractive facilities, including a combination pavilion-restroom structure for a new regional park in Far Rockaway.

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Budget Lessons from the States for the Feds:How to Radically Change Expectations about the Federal

Barrett & Greene

States can short their pension obligations, issue debt to cover operating expenses, create off-the-books entities to issue debt, pass the buck to local governments, and game the revenue estimate - just to name a few gimmicks. Yet, by and large, year after year, most states pass fiscally constrained budgets.

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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. Overhead covers general operating expenses like rent, utilities, and administrative expenses. Understand the implications of overhead rates. Robertson, Stephen W.