AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2025

What if a Medicaid agency could make sure that their leadership and staff had access to a reliable, single source of truth for their data in one unified platform? The layer could also house the states EDW eventually. The implementation of an operational data store (ODS) presents a viable solution.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2025

Get Leadership Buy-in Journey maps can identify important opportunities to improve CX, but if leadership is unwilling to solve the problems a journey map clearly shows, then the maps become an exercise in futility. Identify Areas for Improvement Fleshing out the customers journey should reveal pain points you can alleviate.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Just before Thanksgiving, House Education and Workforce and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee leadership released their bipartisan, bicameral agreement to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) A Stronger Workforce for America Act (ASWA).

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 2, 2022

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, many communities are seeing an increase in higher-wage families purchasing new homes, while others facean increase in evictions and foreclosures and a growing deficit of quality affordable housing for vulnerable residents. Black communities are disproportionately affected by this crisis.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 12, 2023

81 percent of land banks consider supporting the creation of affordable housing a top priority. Increasingly, land banks have been called on to respond to growing housing affordability needs. 16 percent of land banks reported local-level political leadership to be one of the biggest threats to their success.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) acts as extensible and robust storage for housing user-uploaded photos and videos, user-entered stories, and journal entries persisted by the application. Building SibsForever.org has required patience, commitment, and skilled leadership. Lessons learned.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Housing Authority better ," Post ). From the article: The U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Factors that shape legacy IT Whether in the private or public sector, legacy modernization is challenging for organizations that have a long operating history reliant on in-house systems and applications.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 15, 2025

Housing and building code enforcement is one of local governments most important tools to stabilize and strengthen neighborhoods. It also forms the foundation of other strategies to address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties, including land banking.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

We were working against an ideology, one pervasive in our industry, that for data to be secure and accessible, it must be housed in on-premises servers that our IT staff could see and touch. Ultimately, we decided to adopt AWS based on a few factors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Housing data this way allows us to analyze it by demographic as well as program or service. We worked with our leadership team to demonstrate the value of an integrated data strategy to grow buy-in across the organization, and we worked closely with our AWS team to take things step-by-step.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Future of Government Awards recognize the people and projects leading public sector digital transformation around the world.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 25, 2023

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. Due to systemic inequities and discrimination in the housing market, homeownership is the primary contributor to the racial wealth gap.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Partnership for Public Service developed its AI Federal Leadership Program to educate members of the Senior Executive Service and GS-15 employees on developing and executing a vision for AI in their agencies. The AI Federal Leadership Program is a major success   The impact of the Partnership’s AI program has been substantial.  

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 23, 2023

These resources offer tips on collaborating with career staff and executing goals, as well as deep dives on topics specific to the federal environment such as understanding the federal budget process and the structure of the White House. For example, my career counterpart during my last federal job deserves most of the credit for our success.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Development of new housing and retail is happening even outside of the city core, albeit mostly centered around subway stations (Columbia Heights, Petworth, Fort Totten, Takoma, U Street), but even in a couple areas (14th Street, H Street) where subway access is tangential. I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 12, 2023

Grant professionals, successful ones at least, have a seat at the leadership table. We collaborate with program directors, accountants, and organizational leadership. We are involved in strategic planning. We have a voice in matching programs and projects to funding opportunities.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

MARCH 11, 2024

Members of the House and Senate recognized NLC’s historic role in strengthening local leadership and supporting federal-local partnerships, advocating for 19,000 cities, towns, and […] Source

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Google Public Sector

MAY 17, 2023

As CEO of Google Public Sector, I am honored to join the board with these distinguished professionals, each of whom brings diverse perspectives and rich experiences to our leadership team. His previous leadership roles include Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Associate Director for Military Affairs, CIA, and many others.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Vacant house and lots in the Larimer neighborhood. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article, " Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods pay the price for abandoned and decrepit homes ," about how Pittsburgh's lower income neighborhoods suffer from serious housing disinvestment. Better off segments have the money to maintain aging houses.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

I was grateful to Chelsea Clinton, author, advocate, and vice chair of the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and Francessca Vasquez, AWS vice president of technology and customer solutions, for sharing their passions for data and leadership with us during a fireside chat.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In early 1993, as a military communications planner, I worked with peers and White House planners to prepare for the 50 th Anniversary of D-Day in Europe. A year later, when White House staffers came to Europe, their attitude had radically changed. Remember, his view of the military had its basis in the Vietnam. Pray they respond.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

JULY 12, 2023

The reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) programs in Congress began in June with a smooth takeoff when the House Transportation Committee passed the bipartisan Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act (H.R.3935).

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 25, 2024

Explore our thought leadership hub to explore innovative ideas for public service. The White House is championing this transformation while emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in how AI is leveraged. Take our Introduction to responsible AI course or join our webinar on harnessing AI for responsible data governance.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 11, 2023

Activating vacant and abandoned properties for climate adaptation offers the ability to create and enhance access to high-quality, affordable housing suitable for a changed climate. Vacant Properties and Managed Retreat As more communities consider managed retreat in the face of sea level rise—i.e.,

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Organizations no longer need special hardware or in-house expertise to reap the benefits. While the concept of digital twins is not new and dates back to the early days of the space program , the cloud is making the technology much more accessible so all of our customers can build and run simulations at scale.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets. Ideally, families would once more be able to call these derelict properties home—but we were unsure exactly how to make that happen.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 12, 2017

So I was ready to launch a diatribe against major, widely-reported harms inflicted by the House repeal-replacement bill. The House bill would eliminate the CFC program in 2020, cutting an estimated $12 billion in federal Medicaid funding in the first six years. People who’ve suffered injuries like mine would be vulnerable, of course.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We believe the military community brings unique skills and experiences to the workforce, and exemplifies many of our Leadership Principles. Amazon currently employs more than 45,000 veterans and military spouses across multiple businesses, including operations, sustainability, Alexa, and AWS.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services Caroline Goon, Director of External Affairs, White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, U.S. Their leadership qualities. Their commitment to continuously improve government. Their ability to make positive change happen.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace is a centralized location that houses thousands of third-party software, data, and services that run on AWS. Forrester identified AWS Marketplace as a leader in its most recent Forrester Wave evaluation of software as a service (SaaS) marketplaces.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 27, 2025

Make the agency and culture AI-ready Preparing for AI will likely require significant changes to agency workflows, which can cause concern for both leadership and staff. Dont go it alone AI implementation is complex, and handling the work in-house can be daunting.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Presenting the award, Hicks said, “It’s no exaggeration to say that, through Laura’s leadership and tireless work, and that of her team, they have changed the course of history.” From left to right, Fletcher Schoen, Jennifer Harkins and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients. “It Emerging Leaders category winners.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 6, 2016

We get insights from Robert Gordon who held top leadership roles at the White House Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. How can the Federal government encourage more evidence-based policy and innovation through the grant making process? click here ].

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Peter Bonner is a cross-sector innovator, working in the areas of human capital, workforce development, and leadership effectiveness. Marquiesha Gillispie, BSBA, MPA, is the Director of the Federal Military Family Network within the Interagency Veterans Advisory Council, a role supported by the White House’s Joining Forces Initiative.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 6, 2022

She enjoyed her experience so much that she recently accepted a full-time job as a staff assistant for leadership development and appointee engagement at the White House, helping vet and onboard political appointees. Below, she describes her experience as a Future Leaders in Public Service intern.

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