AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Governments worldwide dedicate a significant portion of their IT budget to maintaining legacy technology systems. This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge. For example, the cost to the UK government of maintaining legacy IT is estimated to be around 50 percent (or £2.3

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

While the bill remains stalled in the Senate after passing the House this summer, many industry players hope its strong bipartisan support and alignment with broader government efficiency goals will spur swift passage with the new administration. Aside from those high priorities, every agency should consider upgrading its technology.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2024

As lawmakers in Albany debate how to fix New York’s housing affordability crisis, a new research brief by the NYU Furman Center examines the possible effects of how a good cause eviction requirement might affect tenants, landlords, and the housing market.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

In San Diego County, California, for every 10 homeless people who found housing in the last year, 13 more people became homeless. Department of Housing and Urban Development Homeless Assessment Report found that there were 582,462 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2022. Clarity Human Services runs on AWS.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This funding typically makes up only approximately one-third of the federal budget, with a majority of spending going toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and mandatory programs that fall outside the purview of annual appropriations. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills.

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Government Technology Insider

AUGUST 31, 2022

At the state and local levels, budgets prove thinner. According to SolarWinds recent annual Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey , 50% of security IT professionals across state agencies and 25% of local governments selected “low budgets” as the leading challenge plaguing their team’s success. Automate wherever possible.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ).

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 31, 2023

Can you imagine communities without food banks, battered women shelters, free primary care clinics, after-school care, animal shelters, substance abuse resources, housing assistance, and the extensive list of services made available because a nonprofit exists? Instead, they fund nonprofits that align with their mission. It is a vicious cycle.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 18, 2023

The Tracker provides ARP budgeted data through last December (2022) for all local governments except Tier 5 (the smallest cities and counties). The data reflect adopted budgets only, not proposals or expenses. Nationally, only about 11% of adopted budget ARP dollars have gone to infrastructure projects. Public Space 12.5

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The report also offers an ominous warning for what could lie ahead for the nation’s armed forces if Congress does not enact a budget before the next deadline. Although members of both the House and Senate have introduced bills this year to ensure that all service members get paid in the event of a shutdown, none have passed.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 12, 2023

This information overload can cause individuals to operate on autopilot, leading to a lack of critical thinking and making them vulnerable to fraudsters’ frauds. An automation platform allows you to achieve security without compromise Enhancing security is frequently a balancing act between budgets and customer experience.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 26, 2023

More than Seattle and county budgets have ever allocated. billion in annual operating costs and tens of thousands more units of housing. The document comes more than two years into the authority’s existence, and is its first foundational guide to direct policy and budget. And more than double what Gov.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions. Understanding Proposal Budgets When you search for potential funders, it is beneficial to have a sense of how much your project will cost.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

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. The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company.

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Peak Proposals

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some diversification is going to be required if your organization depends on grant funding because funders typically cap the amount of money that can go toward general operating expenses. its general operating expenses). The question is, can all nonprofits successfully pursue diversification?

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 25, 2023

Debt limit breach By statute, Congress limits the amount of money the Treasury may borrow to fund government operations even as it mandates that agencies spend more money than the government takes in. Every year, Congress is required to approve appropriations that fully fund the federal government’s budget. In turn, the U.S.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 26, 2016

That’s the size of Marathon County’s annual budget. The real challenge we face is that every year, our operational costs go up 2 million dollars ($2,000,000) while the State imposed levy caps limit us to a half million dollars ($500,000) in new tax levy. This means that pretty much every year we start the budget process with a 1.5

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Let's Talk Parks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Have you ever experienced: a limited budget? So our admin office house here, along with other recreation programs as well. And when developing quality programs, I think you have to take into consideration one what the objectives are, but what’s your budget for it? ” How have you guys been operating?

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Many of these are small contracts that support housing and community development needs in specified service areas around the state. Although my work at the time was not directly tied to land banking, most of us working in housing and community development watched the development of New York State’s new Land Bank Program with great interest.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. One hurdle Morton sees is that government agencies tend to operate by business unit. She envisions making CX measurements as important as operational ones in evaluating the success of government programs.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 23, 2023

From schools to hospitals and many ministerial departments in between, central public pillars of our society house vast amounts of highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) and classified documents – data that is highly attractive to threat actors. The public sector is no exception to this.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 30, 2023

Analogue to digital transition is now an urgent issue across sectors that rely on monitoring data from, responding to, or communicating with service users over whom an organisation has a duty of care, such as TEC (technology-enabled care), assisted living and housing. Digital telephony networks are here and expanding faster than ever.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

One of my biggest learnings in transit planning is the necessity of separating planning from budgeting. Transit operators would come back and say: you've defined the network's breadth: the area you serve and how you do it, with various modes) and depth: level/frequency of service) as X. And best of all, both neighborhoods are flat.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Traditional systems for arranging adaptations are needlessly complex, with many different teams, departments, and organisations operating in silos and using varying systems, practices, and budgets from area to area. It also helps to facilitate more joined-up working between housing, health, and social care teams.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The mayor’s purpose that day was to introduce his new 10-year operational strategic plan to an audience of some 500 employees—a plan intended to modernize the way government works, make services more accessible, empower the city workforce and improve the city’s financial outlook.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What we ended up with was about the best we could hope for – I had a teaching-focused position at a big state university and my partner had a lecturer position at a small liberal arts college about an hour away that would very likely turn into a tenure-track position once the school got its budget in order. It was the house.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System 1 is a relatively unknown but important part of America’s housing and financial system, with over $1 trillion in assets. It was established by Congress in 1932 and today consists of 11 regional FHLBanks that operate as one system, cross-guaranteeing each other’s debts.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 26, 2024

School Administration: School administrators, including principals and assistant principals, should be involved in transportation decisions to ensure that the school’s operational needs, budget considerations, and overall goals are considered. Brought to you by:

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GovLoop

AUGUST 30, 2024

But ironically, when we at Granicus interact with agency analysts and operators, they almost see their agency as a data desert [because information is] often stored in … detached and even uncooperative systems.” The second guiding principle is to remember that good solutions call for personalization — which requires data.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. It's best to line up support and funding, when you're wildly successful. It's really hard when you're failing. Good luck with that.

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Let's Talk Parks

MARCH 2, 2022

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. S o in those types of facilities, summer operations may go on as planned. But I do just want to say that there are facilities and agencies operating like that. They’re trying to do some things, but it’s just not back to normal operation.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

I do not claim to have all the answers, but after two decades of grant writing, I know a thing or two about how funders operate. Let me count thy ways: Grant programs are listed in the appropriations act of each federal department as part of the annual budget process.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 14, 2023

They now feature prominently in how teams operate and interact with one another and their customers and partners. This includes whether devices are company-issued or employee-owned as part of a BYOD policy, as well as app usage and operating systems, such as Apple or Android. Firstly, consider the operating systems it supports.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 10, 2024

For example, New York City, which has just opened up a bunch of new library facilities (" A Love Letter to Libraries, Long Overdue ," New York Times ) proposed budget cuts that could lead to weekend closures (" NYC Budget Would Close Libraries On Weekends While Police Get Huge Bonuses ," Vice). Libraries as community hubs.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They make policy and procedural recommendations for meeting budgets, deadlines, etc. City managers are public administrators who try to make city governments operate with the efficiency of successful businesses. Housing Specialist. Want to get people into houses but don’t want to work for a bank? Budget Analyst.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated. ," Bloomberg). And there is no oversight.

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