Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Opportunity for our team to respond to all comments and interact with public feedback in real-time. Virtual town hall feature with integration with Zoom to host online meetings for those who can’t attend in person due to various reasons (i.e., school, work, etc.).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 8, 2023

Town hall meetings are a great way for local and national politicians to meet with constituents to hear their opinions on topics they are interested in or to discuss upcoming legislation. One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Image: Wikipedia. All hope is not lost, however, since there are “hundreds who are wise.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 12, 2017

I’m inclined to think that some House Republicans who voted for the bill knew this, though, as we know for sure, House Speaker Ryan chose to rush it through, rather than wait for an official score from the Congressional Budget Office. Two conservative economists estimated the annual cost at $15-$20 billion — this back in 2010.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Stop Telling Constituents They Are Wrong Jennifer Pahlka is an astute and experienced analyst and a seasoned practitioner of the art and science of good government. At first glance, the advice to “stop telling constituents they’re wrong” is a short essay on the arcane, even trivial. And that’s especially true in the lead up to Trump 2.0,

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Why “meeting people where they are” matters: 1) We are generally a passive voting audience, if you meet us where we are, in theory we are more likely to participate – right? Check out the full schedule and join the conversation with #BigBlockOfCheeseDay. Look out world.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. Even before that, at least 26 Republicans were touting the benefits of the measure to their constituents while neglecting to mention they voted against it. As soon as they took office, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats passed the $1.9

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 26, 2017

The coalition, CAP says , will also ensure that members of Congress learn from the stories how their own constituents would be affected. How then they may vote, as it doesn’t say, but needn’t. Reporters, as you know, are always looking for the personal lead-in or thread.

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