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How NPOs and NGOs embrace digital transformation for sustainability with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focusing on sustainability are dedicated to fostering a healthy environment, preserving our planet, and providing a livable future for upcoming generations. This research is essential in informing policy and guiding action towards sustainability.

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Jacaranda Health advances maternal and infant health across Kenya and beyond with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Jacaranda Health , a Kenya-based nonprofit organization, is on a mission to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths by deploying low-cost, sustainable solutions that improve the quality of care in government health systems. How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa.

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Student training program tackles Thailand’s air pollution with help from AirGradient, AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

This data empowers global researchers and policymakers to make informed decisions and develop targeted strategies and advocacy efforts that mitigate the harmful effects of air pollution. Besides the AirGradient Map , the data is also fed to open source platform OpenAQ , which provides real-time access to air quality data globally.

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How three AWS IMAGINE Grant winners are transforming the future of games, music, and health with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa. Climate Next: How sustainability champions around the world use cloud-powered tech to fight climate change. Wings for Life World Run uses AWS to scale when it matters most. Using AWS to help students find an affordable college.

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Unifying data to boost nonprofit fundraising outcomes

AWS Public Sector Blog

As the largest provider of educational programming for public television stations in the US, PBS needed to surface the most relevant content to its viewers—who are also its funders. By making sure members receive the most value from their content, this provides a direct value, which converts into sustaining and growing their member base.

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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

In my work in the public sector over the last 20 years or more, one of the most familiar tropes is the exasperated crusade so many engage in to find better ways to collaborate within and across governments and between governments and the wider community. We want it but can’t ever seem to really deliver it. Except in a good crisis.

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

Barrett & Greene

Public sector budgeting, state or federal, does not resemble the textbook “rational allocation of priorities.” With deficits projected to average roughly $2 trillion over the next 10 years, balancing the federal budget in a single year or even over ten years is likely more than our political system or even economy can sustain.