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Discover how nonprofits can utilize no-code machine learning with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

AWS Public Sector Blog

You can train the models using datasets of mission-specific prompts and ideal responsessuch as donor engagement strategies, mission-area specific languages, volunteer management scenarios, and program impact assessmentsto fine tune your model to generate customized output.

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Top 100 GovTech Influencers and Brands Creating the Operating System of Government!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

GovTech is a rapidly expanding industry across the globe that has an engaging, collaborative, inspiring community of individuals within government, nonprofits and private industry who all share the commonality of employing new and existing technologies to improve the lives of citizens." “GovTech is the operating system of government!”

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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

In the context of community engagement, we’re sometimes asked how to deal with hostile communities. As community engagement professionals with the analytical tools, we have access to, we can see that the reach of project information often goes far beyond our target audience. Components of Outrage. Community outrage assessment.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

153A-255 states: “Each county shall provide social service programs pursuant to Chapter 108A and Chapter 111 and may otherwise undertake, sponsor, organize, engage in, and support other social service programs intended to further the health, welfare, education, employment, safety, comfort, and convenience of its citizens” (emphasis added).

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. OWS reached citizens in general, but also engaged the entire world in a domestic matter. The new media on which these early rallies were organized are significant because of the people that became engaged.

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Change.org’s Ray-based recommender on Amazon EKS increases petition signatures by 30%

AWS Public Sector Blog

More than 1,500 petitions are created every day on Change.org, covering topics ranging from public health to land zoning to early childhood education. With such a vast amount of content on the site, many important petitions never gain traction merely because people dont know they exist.

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Privatization of municipal utility systems (water mostly)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Towamencin Township residents organize a petition drive to create a November ballot measure to change the township's charter in response to the town's decision to sell its public sewer system for $115.3 million to NextEra Water, a private Florida company. Importantly, the top performers all place social purpose at the heart of their business.