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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

AWS Public Sector Blog

Advocacy is about taking action in real time, so we need to reach people wherever they are. This chatbot enables individuals to instantly learn more about ONE’s work, stay up-to-date with current advocacy campaigns, and find ways to take action locally and throughout Africa. Using AWS to deliver on our mission.

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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The application offers a secure and private platform for surviving siblings to chronicle memories through storytelling, pictures, and videos. The private and supportive SibsForever community is made up of hundreds of surviving siblings, totally separate from any major social media platform.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

At a lesser scale, sabotage, targeted assassination, cyber attacks and political interference through social media are increasingly capable of causing runaway chains of adverse consequences. In addition, more than 60 universities teach and research on topics (hazards, risks, disasters, safety, security, etc.) 1] Domoto, A.,

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Over the near century of evolution of this dominant government role, the business model used by all four agencies has come to rely on packaging those loans into mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and then guaranteeing the investors in the MBS against credit losses on the underlying mortgage loans. 3 This business model is very complex.

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Protect Your Library Marketing: 6 Smart Strategies for Turbulent Times

Super Library Marketing

Give your patrons opportunities to share why the library feels like a safe and welcoming place for them through video clips, quotes, or social media posts. Build your email lists Social media platforms are more divisive, and many people are leaving them. Need inspiration? H eres how one library marketer does it.

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Too Quick to Pronounce Trump Budget Dead on Arrival

Poverty & Policy

We’ve also seen, though CBPP doesn’t mention them, proposals to bar workers without Social Security numbers, i.e., not officially authorized to work for pay, from claiming the refundable Child Tax Credit, even though most of the children who’d benefit are U.S. Advocacy organizations formed issue-specific and linked coalitions.