AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Training and development – Invest in training for your workforce to become adept at leveraging these AI tools, ensuring a smooth transition into a more tech-empowered mode of operation. With RAG and LLMs, the opportunity to redefine public service is at our doorstep.

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Social Pinpoint

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Closing the loop with a comprehensive community engagement report shows respect and encourages further participation. It’s important to show that you are listening to your community. A community engagement report is a vital tool for building trust and creating transparency in the public participation process.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The first round of awards helped five land banks launch creative initiatives to address problem properties, supporting work that would not normally occur within regular land bank operations. In this revitalization effort, the land bank has modeled how other land banks can prioritize community engagement and sustainability planning.

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Decisions That Matter

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Together, her team discovers new ways to solve user problems, builds innovative solutions, and develops creative strategies to drive engagement with the government and supplier communities served by Procurated. At Periscope, he led the development of the BuySpeed product, executing 4 statewide e-procurement implementations.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Building Better City-CLT Partnerships: A Program Manual for Municipalities and Community Land Trusts.”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Launch of new AWS GovTech Accelerator for startups Justice and public safety customers have told us they need technology solutions to help increase community engagement, deter crime, and reduce recidivism. Learn more about the AWS Partner CRM Connector. The new AWS GovTech Accelerator for startups is a response to that need.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

A system on a mission To fund local efforts to help those affected by homelessness, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants roughly $3 billion annually to local projects combating homelessness. HUD distributes this funding to communities through collective representative bodies known as Continuums of Care (CoCs).

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Decisions That Matter

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Together, her team discovers new ways to solve user problems, builds innovative solutions, and develops creative strategies to drive engagement with the government and supplier communities served by Procurated. At Periscope, he led the development of the BuySpeed product, executing 4 statewide e-procurement implementations.

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zencity

MAY 3, 2023

We’ve welcomed numerous new partner communities across the world, rolled out cutting-edge new features, including the first-ever use case of ChatGPT in local government , and re-launched as the best full-service community engagement platform available for government today.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On this episode of “Iron Sharpens Iron” De’Wayne and Leon are joined by Majeedah Rashid, the Chief Operating Officer at Nicetown Community Development Corporation. Majeedah, a veteran community organizer, explains how she got her start in the early 2000s and her resident driven approach to community organizing.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On this episode of “Iron Sharpens Iron” De’Wayne and Leon are joined by Majeedah Rashid, the Chief Operating Officer at Nicetown Community Development Corporation. Majeedah, a veteran community organizer, explains how she got her start in the early 2000s and her resident driven approach to community organizing.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

NRPA’s Resilient Park Access grant program supports the advancement of community-driven, systems-level strategies for equitable park access that improve the environmental resilience and health of communities.

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Social Pinpoint

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Building community consensus goes hand in hand with increasing your social capital and your overall social license. However, more and more organizations are discovering that social license to operate is becoming more important to obtain and harder to gain. So, how do we achieve this in the dynamic community setting?

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Since signing on as city manager for fast-growing Hutto in 2022, Earp has leveraged his passions for leadership, finance and education to help reshape the city’s operations with an emphasis on collaboration. Developing the people, helping them succeed, it’s really what city managers ought to be doing,” Earp says. “I

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One massive benefit of large scale operational and institutional change is the chance to innovate. Maybe it’s increased feedback points throughout the constitute journey, benchmarking community satisfaction or experimenting with your engagement toolkit. More on the trends changing community engagement here.

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zencity

MARCH 2, 2023

Numerous cities and counties that operated remotely during the pandemic and whose residents got accustomed to interacting digitally are now expecting a more seamless digital customer experience. technology is the solution to improving customer experience, enhancing engagement, and building trust between the government and its community.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Hot, humid weather and developing storms made me wonder whether my house was about to suffer the effects of the kind of concentrated microcyclone storm which has come to be known colloquially as a 'water bomb' and scientifically as ‘explosive cyclogenesis’. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. Basically, it's back to the concept of the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. It's rare for me to say, but Marion Barry was right! Using the Main Street Approach.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Note that the in Cleveland supported the development of the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit line serving a number of neighborhoods, including the University Circle district and Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospital system and Downtown. HealthLine in Cleveland. The potential exception: hospitals that are more neighborhood-embedded.

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Barrett & Greene

MAY 8, 2023

Improving community trust would require applying these practices: ​ intention listening for understanding commitment. ​ Further, we needed to develop clear expectations for how the input would be used. We made it clear to all concerned that the input we’d be receiving would be used to guide operational changes and budget priorities.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

She notes another trend within sustainability that is tied to equity initiatives: There’s been an increase in different types of education and community engagement channels and methods. Cities and counties have more control over their own operations and assets; therefore, they should take quick action and lead by example.

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