AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

What gives me hope are the nonprofit organizations that I am thrilled to share with you today, who are among thousands of organizations around the globe filling vital gaps in services and support for our people and planet. Among this cohort are nonprofits on the cutting edge of what’s possible with technology.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software used by nonprofits to communicate with donors and drive fundraising programs. With improved data insights, nonprofits can personalize communications with constituents, strengthen donor relationships, enhance operational efficiencies, and more.

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Peak Proposals

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nonprofits are always told to diversify their revenue streams. The question is, can all nonprofits successfully pursue diversification? The Funding Models: Grant Funding, Fundraising, and Corporate Partnerships Two of the most popular methods of revenue generation for nonprofits are grant funding and fundraising activities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

“The new AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance in West Virginia continues our global mission of working across government, education, and nonprofits to support organizations and their enduring need for highly qualified talent that is critical to future growth,” said Valerie Singer, general manager of AWS Worldwide Public Sector Global Education.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In a forthcoming book, I define performance management as a continuous and cyclical process of making data-informed decisions to improve organizational outcomes. Over the last few decades, these systems have become ubiquitous in almost every aspect of local government management.

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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. Explore more ways AWS can improve member services for nonprofit financial institutions.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

OCTOBER 3, 2024

State and local governments are exploring ways to take a more direct role in financing, preserving, and developing housing to address the nation’s housing shortage with an array of public development models, according to a new policy brief by the NYU Furman Center and its Housing Solutions Lab. A Decline In U.S.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

At AWS re:Invent 2022, I connected with inspiring customers around the world who are using the cloud to drive innovation in government, education, nonprofit, space, and healthcare. For that reason, we recommend organizations create data management strategies that will continuously improve the integrity, access, and security of their data.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Across the country, more than 5 million low-income Americans rely on housing choice vouchers to help cover their housing costs. Across the country, more than 5 million low-income Americans rely on housing choice vouchers to help cover their housing costs.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 31, 2023

Funders and nonprofits – two sides to a very important coin. Sure, nonprofits would not last long without the resources provided by individual donors, foundations, corporations, and (in some cases) government agencies. Nonprofits do so much above and beyond the services provided by our governmental agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is a guest post by Shahirah Mahmood, PhD, director of data management, measurement, and outcomes at Easterseals, DC MD VA. We lacked a unified data management strategy, and our data lived in a mix of on-premises and cloud-based systems. Housing data this way allows us to analyze it by demographic as well as program or service.

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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.

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Peak Proposals

JUNE 1, 2023

The result of this uncertainty is that the decision of how to manage references is not made until after the proposal is well underway, and the references are scattered across several locations. What Is a Reference Manager? A reference manager is a software program that allows you to organize and format your references.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Transportation Demand Management programming The reality is, especially in a place like Salt Lake, most people drive. While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. Photo: Leah Hogsten, Salt Lake Tribune.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Community Solutions is a US-based nonprofit working to end homelessness through its Built for Zero program, a movement uniting with cities across the US to bridge strategy and support to reduce homelessness. Learn some of the top takeaways from Fix This episode, and listen to the full episode here.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Share Our Strength , a national nonprofit organization, is dedicated to ending hunger and poverty in the US and abroad. However, managing and utilizing data at scale can be a challenge for a nonprofit organization like Share Our Strength. According to the U.S. an AWS Partner, to develop a customized solution.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

In San Diego County, California, for every 10 homeless people who found housing in the last year, 13 more people became homeless. RTFH needed to connect information about 700 different homelessness related programs from more than 1,200 case managers at more than 75 different organizations and government agencies across San Diego County.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, and non-aligned organization that provides election campaigns access to cybersecurity products, services, and information, regardless of party affiliation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed AWS service that makes foundation models such as Anthropic’s Claude easily accessible through an API that leverages a serverless experience while enabling customers to keep data collected by the chatbot secure within their own AWS environment. Learn more about the AWS CIC program.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 2, 2023

The Washington Business Journal reports that in Arlington County, Virginia, Goodwill is working with the Arlington Housing Corporation, a nonprofit, to redevelop a store site where they will have their store on the ground floor, with affordable housing above. And the development doesn't look like it's affordable housing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Within the AWS Global Infrastructure, an Availability Zone consists of one or more discrete data centers, with redundant power, networking, and connectivity housed in separate facilities. For example, a nonprofit organization’s fundraising application might only need an RTO/RPO target of hours. longer time to recovery).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Toronto Star reports (" Curse of the renter: In some neighbourhoods, not owning a home now costs more than owning one ") that renters there are paying more for housing than housing owners in some parts of the city. This results in part because an increasing share of the rental housing sector is owned and managed by large firms.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 4, 2023

We all like to think we collaborate with our fellow nonprofits, local governments, and other neighbors, but do we really? The local nonprofit raised the funds for the infrastructure and manages the programming at the site. The nonprofit does not have to pay rent, utilities, or other bills associated with facility expenses.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 10, 2024

Ultimately, this post serves as a valuable resource if you’re seeking to optimize your data management processes and derive actionable insights to drive business growth. Businesses face tough challenges in achieving data governance, like compliance, security, scalability and management overhead.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

Managing privacy, security, and compliance obligations When building for public trust, data responsibility becomes paramount. Empowering multidisciplinary teams Technical abilities required vary by project complexity, necessitating assessments of in-house skills versus outsourcing potential components.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 12, 2023

We are fundraisers, so nonprofits often place us in the development department. We might report to city managers, executive directors, development directors, finance directors, vice presidents, assistant superintendents, or any number of titles found in nonprofits, universities, local governments, K-12 schools, and other organizations.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2023

-- High rates and prices make it less affordable to own a home in Canada , Royal Bank of Canada In some markets, 80% to 102% of median income is required to own and maintain a house. One group can't afford housing at today's prices. OTOH, in the US the Wall Street Journal reports on " The Rise of the Forever Renters."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2023

I was surprised to see that the Lucky Duck Foundation and separately a City Council member have suggested building tent shelters at Balboa Park, eachcapable of housing 500 people (" Balboa Park groups oppose proposed homeless shelter, saying it would be a violation of city, state rules ," San Diego Union Tribune ).

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Peak Proposals

MAY 13, 2021

Nonprofits frequently collect and reuse boilerplate that addresses typical proposal requirements. Standard contract terms that a nonprofit uses in partnership and consultancy agreements are other examples of boilerplate. Ongoing Management of Your Library After you establish your content library, someone has to oversee it.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 6, 2016

Even so, billions of dollars flow from the Federal level to states, localities and nonprofits in the form of grants. We get insights from Robert Gordon who held top leadership roles at the White House Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. click here ].

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 10, 2023

Agency Name: National Institutes of Health Description: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking to fund innovative research projects aimed at developing quantitative measures for evaluating myofascial tissues in the context of pain management. The funding will be provided through a two-phase grant mechanism.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. What can local governments do to address the need for more affordable housing ?

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

For a proposal style guide, the guide covers in-house style rules and any supplemental style guidance provided by the funder. If the style guide includes a detailed index, that helps tremendously, but few of the in-house style guides we’ve encountered have included an index). Grant proposals also need style guides.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

For a proposal style guide, the guide covers in-house style rules and any supplemental style guidance provided by the funder. If the style guide includes a detailed index, that helps tremendously, but few of the in-house style guides we’ve encountered have included an index). Grant proposals also need style guides.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Lizette Lewis is a Project Manager at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC). About New Kensington Community Development Corporation New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) is a different kind of nonprofit. We offer housing services city-wide. We offer housing services city-wide.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Lizette Lewis is a Project Manager at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC). About New Kensington Community Development Corporation New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) is a different kind of nonprofit. We offer housing services city-wide. We offer housing services city-wide.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Co-anchor of CNN News Central Kate Bolduan emceed the awards program, which welcomed nearly 400 guests, including agency leaders, members of Congress and the media, and others from the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Volcker Career Achievement Medalist Melissa Emrey-Arras Management Excellence category winners.

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