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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

I relied heavily on documented best practices for building a resilient, secure, and scalable application. 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.

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Simplifying the Online Employee Onboarding Process in Park Agencies

Let's Talk Parks

Trello : Although not nearly as robust, setting up an employee onboarding site in Trello is one of the simplest ways to document your policies in an online format. Process Street : Process Street is literally made for documenting your policies and procedures. But in reality, this should be the CORE of your training documents.

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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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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. . Deliver on ‘climate emergency’ rhetoric.

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Collaboration and Shared Work My first non-academic job involved a lot of looking at documents with a group of people and making adjustments as we discussed them. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved. It was the house. As much as I loved it, it wasn’t the right house.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Water conservation.

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Rethinking Time Management: Beyond the Clock to True Resource Mastery #2

Grant Writing Made Easy

I’ve started so many first drafts in my career as a teacher of writing and as a professional writer that it’s relatively low effort to open a blank document and start typing. On the other hand, tasks that might take other people quite a bit of willpower are relatively easy for me.