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AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance expands to Texas

AWS Public Sector Blog

“JPMorganChase has been deeply ingrained in the Texas community for more than a century and a half, tracing its origins back to the First National Bank of Houston,” said Stacey Laurent, vice president and lead technical program manager for JPMorganChase. “We We prioritize investing in our community’s individuals.

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Migrating and modernizing state WIC applications with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Cloud migrations and microservices can create opportunities for WIC administrators and technologists to plug-and-play solutions that assist beneficiaries with WIC applications, case management, reduced administrative burden, and engagement in their health, while continuing to leverage their current technical solutions.

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Resident Engagement in Vacant Lot Greening: Empowering Communities for Neighborhood Revitalization

Center for Community Progress

In contrast, when the management of vacant lots is effectively addressed at scale through greening programs, these lots can deliver diverse public health benefits to communities. Resident engagement in greening is one such approach. Resident involvement may also be important for advancing program capacity and sustainability.

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Sustainability and Environmental Resilience in Parks — Episode 163

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

I was honored to co-host this conversation alongside Ben Kittleson, manager at Raftelis and co-host/producer of GovLove. GovLove is a production of Engaging Local Government Leaders and is a podcast about local government with the goal of telling informative and unique stories about the work being done at the local level.

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Why you should apply to the Mission Support Leadership Program

Partnership for Public Service

Recently, the Partnership sat down with a few program alumni on LinkedIn Live to discuss the benefits of this leadership training opportunity. Shiela Verges-Osuna, Employee Engagement Section Chief, National Institute of Health. Daria Lee, HR Specialist, Staff Acquisition Group within the Office of Personnel Management.

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The Power of Mindfulness

GovLoop

In the latest installment of Management Minutes With Mika, government transformation expert Mika Cross chatted with Mindful NOAA co-founder and program manager, Garth Smelser, discussing the meaning of mindfulness and strategies to apply it in agencies to become better public servants.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

Skowera not only sees engagement benefits from offering virtual options, but also environmental and budgetary advantages. Engagement as an Agency-wide Priority. It’s essential for an agency’s full team — specifically process and program managers — to be invested in engagement-related IT advances, Skowera said.