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Get excited for IMAGINE: Nonprofit 2024

AWS Public Sector Blog

Attendees network during IMAGINE: Nonprofit 2023. On March 20 , the Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference returns to the Washington, DC metropolitan area for our eighth year of learning with nonprofit leaders from around the world.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Too often, policymakers lack access to relevant data that could better inform the development of these new policies. Seeking to make access to economic policy documents easier, Mercatus created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) solution. I knew that the error code was probably covering up something else.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cost, resilience, and performance are non-functional requirements that are often at tension with each other.” — Werner Vogels, The Frugal Architect, Law III Nonprofit organizations are typically frugal and responsible. To expand their reach, they often collaborate with academia and other nonprofits, and they engage early-career talent.

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Bridging Policy Gaps with Inclusive Data w/ Candice Mays

Policy Chats

In this episode, Director of Mapping Black California, Candice Mays talks with the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the availability of comprehensive data, how gaps in population data impact policy, and the critical role data plays in shaping informed, equitable policies.

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Nonprofits and Recessions: 3 Actions to Take to Stay Afloat

Grant Writing Made Easy

Whether we’re already in a recession or one is looming on the horizon, you might be wondering what it all means for your work and what you need to know about nonprofits and recessions. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study explains that the public wants nonprofits to be countercyclical. Procyclical. This makes sense.

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NonProfits & Branding – The Paradigm Shift

Public Policy Blog

Many nonprofits use their brands primarily as a fundraising tool, but a growing number of nonprofits are developing a broader and more strategic approach, managing their brands to create greater social impact and tighter organizational cohesion ( Kylander & Stone, 2012 ) attempting to act as catalysts of change in the world.

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What is a land bank?

Center for Community Progress

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.