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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

AWS Public Sector Blog

Whether lobbying political leaders in world capitals or running grassroots campaigns in local communities, ONE encourages governments to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Our goal is to create a world in which everyone, everywhere can lead a life of dignity and opportunity.

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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

Implementing policy and practice changes that address vacancy is an enormous task, and many communities can’t do it alone. The City successfully advocated for a change to state law that would open up their ability to use in rem code lien foreclosure, a tool developed by Community Progress in 2019 for the city of Mobile.

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Why Is Program Evaluation So Important For Nonprofits?

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

Catalysts Nonprofit missions are effective because they often begin at the grassroots level. Implement the changes. Now that your program has been evaluated and the data collected and analyzed, it’s time to implement the changes that will make your program and your organization as a whole more effective. And then another.

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Publication: Championing Leaders of Color

Center for Community Progress

Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals. Its roots are embedded in the backyards, living rooms, and church halls of people who, out of sheer will and perseverance, found ways to advocate for change in their neighborhoods.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2020, I wrote a series of articles about creating systematic neighborhood revitalization planning and implementation mechanisms to address disinvestment in large and small communities, focused at the scale of the neighborhood. Part 2: Implementation Approach and Levers ". Purposeful neighborhood revitalization.

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Upskilling Your Workforce for GenAI

GovLoop

It’s very much a grassroots approach that encourages innovation from the ground up,” he said. Sometimes leadership roles are unclear and limited resources make it hard to implement AI broadly. Widescale GenAI literacy leads to more creativity and adaptability and better government services, said Holmes.

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Climate Justice from an Intersectional Perspective w/ Osprey Orielle Lake, Exec. Dir. of WECAN

Policy Chats

Osprey was the visionary behind the International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit, which brought together 100 global women leaders to draft and implement a 'Women’s Climate Action Agenda', and co-founded the International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative (IWECI), the precursor initiative of WECAN International.