AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Opening their phone, they were able to provide copies of their ID, Social Security card, and even a fully signed copy of their intake forms with the HOPICS case manager who set them up with Kiip. Kiip, working with HOPICS and powered by AWS, enables unhoused individuals to securely keep, manage, and share copies of their vital documents.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and budget-conscious public sector environment, efficient procurement practices are more crucial than ever. Additionally, financial incentives and rebates offered through cooperative agreements can further enhance these savings, providing much-needed budget relief for public sector organizations.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 2, 2016

"Priority-based budgeting will allow city officials to regain control of the budget." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process. This will help better manage the broad number of services we provide, while recognizing our budget constraints.”

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of November, a survey was released that investigated how local government finance leaders feel about their current budgeting practices and their readiness to embrace modernized approaches. One cautionary note, according to the report which was titled Rethinking Budgeting: Results from the Local Government Budget Survey.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Technologies once relied on to manage this process and reduce knowledge loss are no longer able to do so in an efficient, transparent way—skyrocketing costs, zapping institutional knowledge and worse. To successfully integrate AI, a phased approach beginning with comprehensive stakeholder engagement and pilot testing is critical.

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Death and Taxes

MARCH 27, 2023

Local governments in North Carolina are required to engage citizens in their budget process by following the guidelines set forth by the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act. For example, some governments hold community meetings or town hall events specifically to discuss the budget and gather feedback from citizens.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. In the LZA management account, follow the AWS documentation enabling MFA for users , to add MFA to breakGlassUser01 and breakGlassUser02 and the root user in the management account.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Wildfires are dramatically impacting state budgets as they deal with wildfire response, the damages from those fires and ways they might mitigate future wildfires. In this podcast we explore how Wildfires: Burning Through State Budgets which is a report from The Pew Charitable Trusts. These are the topics we’ll cover in this podcast.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Financial planning needs to be understood as a positive feature of digital transformation, even if it means changing how financial plans are developed and managed. The Cloud Financial Management Framework focuses on financial planning related to current and future usage of cloud resources. Is it consistently reducing operating budgets?

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.

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Citizen Lab

JULY 6, 2022

By starting on the same page, your projects will be set up to maximize your team and community’s return on engagement. Consider your resources To set up a successful engagement project, you’ll need time, budget, and a dedicated team.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 24, 2024

Before we look forward and reveal our predictions for the top 2024 trends in online community engagement, let’s look back. We saw hybrid engagement come of age, we saw really clear stages in engagement, and we even saw the rise of AI. Staged Engagement When we say staged, we don’t mean fake news.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

." - Strathcona County Councillor Linton Delainey Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting. To date, Council and Administration have developed a strategic plan and completed a 4E (efficient, effective, equitable and economical) review of business plan and budget processes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Each CoC identifies a lead agency that serves as its collective representative to HUD and maintains a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) to track service delivery and measure outcomes according to specific HUD standards. Stay on budget and on timeline because that’s where you’ll lose stakeholder support.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed AWS service that makes foundation models such as Anthropic’s Claude easily accessible through an API that leverages a serverless experience while enabling customers to keep data collected by the chatbot secure within their own AWS environment. Learn more about the AWS CIC program.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 27, 2016

PBB & Strategic Planning An analysis of survey data from municipalities who have implemented priority based budgeting For the 5th year in a row, Priority Based Budgeting has been the subject of a Master's degree or PHD thesis defense. Congratulations Liz! Great work advancing our communities!

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications.

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The City Fix

MARCH 3, 2021

In some ways, cities are like households: they must make adjustments in spending based on cash flow. If your income is cut in half, then you may have to dramatically rethink your standard of living. COVID-19 has hit many households. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By engaging with an AWS Partner, you can harness data and analytics to drive innovation, see results quicker, and create customizable solutions for your customers based on past, accurate data. The city of Grand Island , Nebraska needed a cloud-based solution that it could use to build its budget more efficiently.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

"The Toledo Chamber’s jointly funded venture with the City is the first of its kind public-private partnership in the world to bring Priority Based Budgeting into a community." At the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) , we're constantly impressed and amazed at just how innovative local government communities can be.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 28, 2025

AI can improve services from healthcare to social care; it has already started to reshape how councils engage and support their residents. Algorithmic tools are also being used to help councils predict adult care costs more accurately, allowing for better budget management and more efficient use of resources.

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Social Pinpoint

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Learn how you can also create positive project outcomes with your online community engagement platform of choice. DCTA’s ambitious public involvement project required a flexible suite of online community engagement tools to easily gather informed feedback from residents. Keep your public engagement “hub” up to date.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

From a business perspective, it leads to additional benefits like cost savings and more engaged customers. The intersection of AI and sustainability A fireside chat between Ben Churchill, chief strategy officer at Cool Planet , and David Gregg, managing director at Slalom , delved into the intersection of AI and sustainability.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

What’s missing from current methods of managing flood risk? To understand how local governments can better manage flood risk, it is important to understand how this work is done at present. Solutions lie in community involvement The solutions to managing flooding effectively come in two aspects—human and technical.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Office of Personnel Management charged federal agencies to develop and implement diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) plans. At AmeriCorps, that meant embedding DEIA in human resources and strategic plans and engaging with all stakeholders. “We

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Going over budget is not an option. To expand their reach, they often collaborate with academia and other nonprofits, and they engage early-career talent. As a team of data scientists note , Urban also uses AWS Step Functions to manage increasingly complex serverless applications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

But accessing top technology is difficult given the constraints of budget, which, for a community college system, notes Moser, “is limited compared to our four-year counterparts.” Moser knew that using specific new technologies—like AI/ML—could help KCCD meet student needs while also maximizing budget and impact.

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 27, 2023

Budget management is often a top priority when discussing technological modernization, and digital ways of working are often seen as more expensive. However, adopting digital services does not have to conflict with a lean budget. Sharing services and investing in people and processes will save costs and pay dividends later.

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GovLoop

APRIL 18, 2024

For example, a system upgrade can slow employees’ computers if they’re dated and need reconfiguring and budget constraints have prevented an agency from replacing older equipment. What is Change Management? 6 Steps to Success But great rewards are possible with effective change management. But backend changes matter also.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

At the forefront is the General Services Administration, which is developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled GOV CX Analyzer tool to understand how exactly users engage with federal websites, first reported by FedScoop. The push comes after many agencies failed to invest in CX-boosting tools and…

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zencity

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Surveys allow local governments to use community input to make budget and policy decisions based on residents’ expressed needs and priorities, and to measure resident satisfaction levels for good performance management. . We’ve put together 5 best practices for increasing digital survey effectiveness and engagement. Go digital.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Not only will the funder require one, but they may expect to have significant input on your M&E plan, to the point of telling you the indicators you should use; this level of engagement is not uncommon in government-funded grants.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When well-designed, it improves constituent experiences (CX) and promotes equity and engagement. It can include applications such as community platforms that connect constituents to services and resources, open data initiatives and participatory budgeting tools.

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2024

Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, Lookout Pick Out the Bad Apples: How to Manage Low Performers As a supervisor, it can be stressful and awkward to manage a “bad apple.” Join us online Monday, April 15 at 4 p.m. PT to hear from a government CX expert about how to ramp up the effectiveness of your public surveys.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2023

In this blog post, learn key takeaways from our engagements with public sector customers that can help you better prepare for this transformation. When disaster strikes, you will likely be running low on budget, time, and people. This journey often brings challenges and roadblocks that are organizational rather than technical.

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