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

AWS Public Sector Blog

To expand their reach, they often collaborate with academia and other nonprofits, and they engage early-career talent. They have also observed that university programs that focus on public policy and statistics often teach R programming, so using R helps new graduates get up to speed quickly.

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A People-Centered Approach to Problem-Solving

GovLoop

Tara Dawson McGuinness describes her work as sitting at the intersection of policy creation, implementation, and citizen and community voices. McGuinness works at New America, a public policy think tank, where she founded the New Practice Lab, a research and design lab focused on family economic security.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Not only will the funder require one, but they may expect to have significant input on your M&E plan, to the point of telling you the indicators you should use; this level of engagement is not uncommon in government-funded grants. Further, you and your institution must meet the funder’s eligibility requirements.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As GSEs, they were highly limited in their permitted activities but given a preferred market position, along with the subsidies and privileges needed to deliver a public policy benefit to the public. on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers,” September 7, 2008.

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The role AWS is playing in Prosper Africa Tech initiatives

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Alliance brings together major players from US and African private sectors, government agencies, and civil society to focus on the strategic purpose of making digital trade flows easier, cheaper, and more efficient.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The industry has a reputation of engaging in aggressive advocacy and political influencing whenever a threat to the existing third-party selection business model arises. This means all the ingredients are there for housing interest groups to engage in “deny and strongly advocate” tactics effectively enough to win the day.

Advocacy 101
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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

every borrower paying the same interest rate), its regulators would cite it for engaging in an unsafe and unsound practice. It already engages in various targeted policy subsidies related to its special mission. Footnotes [1] There is a fifth loan agency related to rural housing (part of the U.S.