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San Antonio Deepens Trust With Constituents

GovLoop

Let’s say you launch a constituent engagement initiative and within one year you see a significant rise across various metrics: website hits, comments received and event registrations. San Antonio launched an initiative called SASpeakUp in 2015 to gather better input on the city’s budget and its services. Do you call it a success?

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

But in the past, the city struggled to get feedback about the project from many stakeholders and constituents. In-person meetings are tough for people to attend because of work schedules, childcare needs, and mobility and health limitations, for instance — challenges that could prevent many constituents from participating.

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Unhoused individuals gain shelter, prove their identity using AWS-powered solution Kiip

AWS Public Sector Blog

Empowering individuals with ownership of their own data Starting in July 2023, hundreds of staff at the Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care System ( HOPICS ) began using Kiip to store documents, complete forms and applications, and streamline communications with incoming customers. Reach out to the AWS Public Sector team.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

But in the past, the city struggled to get feedback about the project from many stakeholders and constituents. Virtual Tools Expand Outreach “We were able to get so much more information,” Skowera said. “We That allowed the city to use multiple types of outreach to share updates with people as the project developed.

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New Mexico delivers customer-obsessed human services programs powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The state’s Human Services Department (HSD) manages a budget of $7 billion of state and federal funds as it works to transform the lives of 800,000 low-income New Mexicans. Then, with the time they saved managing numbers, they turned their attention to new outreach channels: chat, text, and email. You saved my life today.'”

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Digital Technology for Better CX

GovLoop

Although not everyone is comfortable with artificial intelligence, AI/ML solutions that fuse and analyze data for public outreach are safe, and eventually more agencies will welcome generative AI, Ainsbury said. Just because [some] aspect of AI/ML might be scary …, there are other aspects of AI/ML that are ripe for the picking.”

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Leaders in Land Banking: A Conversation with the Directors of the Savannah-Chatham Land Bank Authority and Omaha Municipal Land Bank

Center for Community Progress

When I started out, there was no line-item in the budget for acquiring properties. We’re leaning into property sales outreach by leveraging local realtors who are familiar with neighborhoods, and we’re partnering with neighborhood organizations that already have trusted relationships with our constituents.

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