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The Mercatus Center solves unstructured data challenges using generative AI from AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

For a nonprofit with a limited budget, the Mercatus Center discovered another huge advantage in AWS: cost savings. One example is legislative bill tracking, which is a basic and important Mercatus Center function. The partnership between AWS and Anthropic made that possible. People can get to the source information very quickly.

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Retaining Generation X and Generation Z federal employees: Three ways Congress can help

Partnership for Public Service

While agencies play a key role in retaining their employees, Congress has the unique ability to pass legislation and provide oversight to foster retention. Congress should provide effective oversight and pass legislation that allows for workplace flexibility in alignment with mission needs.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. But for $3.5 I'd argue that community/local radio independent of large organizations like the University of Utah should/could be an element of that funding stream.

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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

laughs) I don’t think I’ve fully arrived, yet, but one challenge is the translation jump across state policy, legislation, and even philosophy of approach. When I started out, there was no line-item in the budget for acquiring properties. What have been some of your biggest challenges in running a land bank so far?

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Building civic engagement systematically: Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods ," 2022 Models for technical assistance and capacity development Decades ago, there was an organization called the Nonprofit Support Center , which provided training in a number of cities, including DC. Participatory Budgeting initiatives.

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

I’m not a fan of additional layers of neither government, nor federal intervention on state matters in general; however, if the state doesn’t do its job in keeping the local government or municipalities in check in budgeting year-to-year and the community is unwilling or unable to uphold its bargain, change or intervention must occur somewhere.

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Economic Development Spending: Let’s Find Out if It’s Effective

Barrett & Greene

With that in mind, we were intrigued to read an excellent report that came out last week from the Citizen’s Budget Commission, a nonprofit civic organization that focuses on the finance and services of New York City and New York state government. Indeed, the federal government has been pushing for evidence.