AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From supporting veteran service organizations and nonprofits to providing training to active-duty and reservist service members, government civilians, transitioning veterans, and military spouses, AWS is dedicated to serving the military and veteran community. Supporting veterans’ organizations and nonprofits. Army veteran. Learn more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software used by nonprofits to communicate with donors and drive fundraising programs. With improved data insights, nonprofits can personalize communications with constituents, strengthen donor relationships, enhance operational efficiencies, and more.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

OCTOBER 3, 2024

State and local governments are exploring ways to take a more direct role in financing, preserving, and developing housing to address the nation’s housing shortage with an array of public development models, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center and its Housing Solutions Lab.

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Peak Proposals

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nonprofits are always told to diversify their revenue streams. The question is, can all nonprofits successfully pursue diversification? The Funding Models: Grant Funding, Fundraising, and Corporate Partnerships Two of the most popular methods of revenue generation for nonprofits are grant funding and fundraising activities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Every day, nonprofit organizations around the world are improving millions of lives and our planet’s health with their ingenuity, resourcefulness, and compassion. Our latest cohort of Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE Grant winners is no exception. The John F.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Performance Management Process Cycle The adoption and implementation of performance management in community development, however, pose a unique challenge due to how these services are structured and organized. In North Carolina, community development is a municipal function for some local governments and a county function for others.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Creating a cultural shift in the credit union industry Eager to preserve the high degree of trust that the community has for Columbia CU, we had to address key stakeholder concerns when choosing a cloud provider and developing a migration strategy. Explore more ways AWS can improve member services for nonprofit financial institutions.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

How you or your clients handle this good, bad news or this bad, good news will affect the sustainability of your nonprofit agency. That transfer has a solid potential to inject trillions (with a “t”) into the nonprofit sector through wills, bequests, stock transfers, and other giving instruments. Sounds great, right?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Across the country, more than 5 million low-income Americans rely on housing choice vouchers to help cover their housing costs. Across the country, more than 5 million low-income Americans rely on housing choice vouchers to help cover their housing costs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Easterseals, DC MD VA is a multifaceted nonprofit organization with the goal of enriching lives and expanding opportunities for children and adults in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area, including people with disabilities and military backgrounds. Learn more about AWS for nonprofits.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Source: Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

At AWS re:Invent 2022, I connected with inspiring customers around the world who are using the cloud to drive innovation in government, education, nonprofit, space, and healthcare. Organizations no longer need special hardware or in-house expertise to reap the benefits.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Olivia Barrow Strauss, Vice President, Neighborhood Development for Corporate Responsibility, JPMorganChase : Drawing from our philanthropic, business, and research and policy expertise, we advance a holistic strategy to drive inclusive economic growth. These local partnerships play a critical role in informing our community investments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Community Solutions is a US-based nonprofit working to end homelessness through its Built for Zero program, a movement uniting with cities across the US to bridge strategy and support to reduce homelessness. Learn some of the top takeaways from Fix This episode, and listen to the full episode here. “I

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Illustration from The House Book by Keith DuQuette, showing the intensification of land use as you move from suburban areas to the center city. From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Some units are called “granny flats.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 2, 2023

The Washington Business Journal reports that in Arlington County, Virginia, Goodwill is working with the Arlington Housing Corporation, a nonprofit, to redevelop a store site where they will have their store on the ground floor, with affordable housing above. They are doing a development (" Downtown Flint YMCA project gets $1.5M

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

health is a healthcare technology ( HealthTech ) nonprofit that uses geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) to improve the quality of healthcare. As a cloud-native organization, we began with Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances to house our spatial data infrastructures. Learn more about AWS for nonprofits.

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CRA Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Episode 77: CRA Tips: CDCs - Your Partners in Community Development [link] I recently walked a CRA officer through a potential loan transaction in partnership with a community development corporation, otherwise known as a CDC. Either way, these mission based organizations are great partners in community development.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 27, 2022

On July 13, Community Progress CEO and President Dr. Akilah Watkins spoke before the The US House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee in a hearing called “Nowhere to Live: Profits, Disinvestment, and The American Housing Crisis.” Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on America’s housing unaffordability crisis. .

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the meantime, the San Diego cyber community will continue to shape My eCISO through the collective development of guidelines. The DxHub student and customer experience At the Cal Poly DxHub, students work hand-in-hand with university staff and Amazon employees to develop new and exciting public sector solutions like My eCISO.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Lizette Lewis is a Project Manager at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC). About New Kensington Community Development Corporation New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) is a different kind of nonprofit. We offer housing services city-wide. We offer housing services city-wide.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Lizette Lewis is a Project Manager at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC). About New Kensington Community Development Corporation New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) is a different kind of nonprofit. We offer housing services city-wide. We offer housing services city-wide.

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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. The 2022 U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Share Our Strength , a national nonprofit organization, is dedicated to ending hunger and poverty in the US and abroad. However, managing and utilizing data at scale can be a challenge for a nonprofit organization like Share Our Strength. an AWS Partner, to develop a customized solution. According to the U.S.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Marisa Calderon’s Bio and Experience Marisa Calderon is an experienced executive who is regularly recognized, awarded and cited nationwide for her expertise in the housing and financial services industries. Marisa Calderon is the executive director at NCRC Community Development Fund (NCRC CDF), a nonprofit, U.S.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

For a proposal style guide, the guide covers in-house style rules and any supplemental style guidance provided by the funder. We published a short post several years ago about developing a style sheet and what types of information to include. Grant proposals also need style guides. We go over how to do this later in this post.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 12, 2023

We are fundraisers, so nonprofits often place us in the development department. We might report to city managers, executive directors, development directors, finance directors, vice presidents, assistant superintendents, or any number of titles found in nonprofits, universities, local governments, K-12 schools, and other organizations.

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 14, 2023

Agency Name: National Institutes of Health Description: The NIH Neuroscience Development for Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce (R25) program aims to support the development of neuroscience researchers from diverse backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented groups, at various stages of their careers.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Can murals be a gateway to a more developed revitalization program? Often, city arts functions are part of the "economic development" cluster of city agencies. For example, Arts Councils probably need to add some economic development planners. The Drury students came up with the idea for the House of Art(s).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The Bok Building served as a model, the former South Philadelphia high school now home to a bounty of small businesses, nonprofits, and artists, attracting people from around the city to the spectacular views of its rooftop bar. Instead, people wanted to open its walls so pedestrians could more easily move between Chinatown and Market East.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 6, 2022

In this chapter, Andrew Jakabovics and David Sanchez discuss how a nonprofit “first look” program impacted outcomes for real estate owned (REO) properties. Especially in weaker markets, many investors have left the properties vacant, where they continue to hold back local housing markets.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Within the AWS Global Infrastructure, an Availability Zone consists of one or more discrete data centers, with redundant power, networking, and connectivity housed in separate facilities. For example, a nonprofit organization’s fundraising application might only need an RTO/RPO target of hours. longer time to recovery).

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 2, 2023

The board said I’d be buying properties that were abandoned and tax delinquent and selling them to developers to turn into affordable housing. I got my start in local government in Memphis, Tennessee, which is where I developed my love of working with my community and driving generational wealth-building.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two years ago, Missouri State House Representative Kevin Windham began asking questions to try to understand why there were so many vacant and abandoned properties in the communities he represented in suburban St. Louis County Land Bank Coalition , which includes local community development corporations, neighborhood associations, the St.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

They may be run by governmental or nonprofit entities. A community land trust is a nonprofit that owns and provides permanent community control of land and affordable housing through “ground leases.” A conservation land trust is a nonprofit that owns land or conservation easements for open space purposes.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

For a proposal style guide, the guide covers in-house style rules and any supplemental style guidance provided by the funder. We published a short post several years ago about developing a style sheet and what types of information to include. Grant proposals also need style guides. We go over how to do this later in this post.

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