AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Partners are seeing increased customer interest in solutions that support critical public services like traffic, voting, transportation, and waste management. We anticipate that 2023 will see an increase in public sector organizations seeking end-to-end solutions versus an interest in building blocks.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. Since signing on as city manager for fast-growing Hutto in 2022, Earp has leveraged his passions for leadership, finance and education to help reshape the city’s operations with an emphasis on collaboration.

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 10, 2024

Management Excellence – recognizing a federal employee or team for delivering results through superior leadership and exceptional management skills. Emerging Leaders – recognizing a federal employee under the age of 35 who made an important contribution to the public good. You can read more about this year’s nominees here.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 25, 2022

In response, ANDP’s board of directors unanimously voted to redirect all organization programming (housing development, lending, and advocacy) toward combating metro Atlanta’s devastating tide of foreclosures.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). Among the glaring weaknesses cited was the leadership of the DCHA’s executive director, Brenda Donald. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Bowser’s six D.C.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

After weeks of voting and tens of thousands of votes cast, the public recognized Josa, an inclusive education specialist, for his work to promote educational opportunities in developing nations for children and youth with disabilities. People’s Choice Award: Josh Josa, U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

Purpose, crisis and new leadership The starting point, as always with the instinct for systemic reform, is purpose born of crisis: When Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine’s president in 2019, he promised to modernise a state that until then had been a byword for bureaucracy and corruption.

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Masters in Public Administration

JUNE 13, 2011

Machiavelli also established leadership qualities in subordinates. In modern voting, this process is often called the political machine and is now done in a less blatant way. He also realizes that its most effective when you have a group of people who committed to a cause, versus a group of people who are being forced to participate.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach. Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. The Height Limit discussions. I won't go into it, because it has been discussed elsewhere. Other gaps in the planning process.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

In this matter, key leadership skills should be investigated as commonly, in elected government, balance of power is distributed amongst elected officials in seats of power on committees where they may or may not have any actual, worthwhile or relevant skill-set in an attempt to tip the structure of party-line power. Governance, 1 (1), 79-99.

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Partnership for Public Service

AUGUST 28, 2023

are] the basis on which people make decisions on who they are going to vote for. Thad Allen has seen the ways that this polarization can “start to color the processes” of transition, which are core to a well-functioning government and our democratic system. Ideas and concepts…. But they’re not self-executing,” he said.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Public Realm as an Interconnected system, Slide from presentation, "Leadership and the Role of Parks and Recreation in the New Economy," David Barth and Carlos Perez, AECOM. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 12, 2017

You may have already read about this provision because it’s how the Republican leadership quelled colleagues’ well-grounded anxieties about eliminating the ACA’s guarantee against such discrimination. People who’ve suffered injuries like mine would be vulnerable, of course.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 15, 2022

Representative to the Organization for American States were submitted to the Senate nearly a year ago and are still awaiting votes. American leadership was hindered during that crucial period for building regional cooperation and a strong response to Russia’s aggression.??. Mora for the U.S.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Using an expert analysis of Senate-recorded floor votes from the first two years of the last six presidential administrations, we found that: The Senate votes much more on nominations than before. Those votes never made up more than 14% of all votes during the first two years of the Obama, George W. Bush presidencies.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The Partnership concentrates on this specific point of intervention in a systems innovation and leadership approach – improving the way knowledge, expertise and real progress “on the ground” can influence and change the way the rules of the system are made and changed.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

. “I don’t think that any existing institutions are going to leap to the leadership of the movement,” said Sidney Tarrow, emeritus professor of government at Cornell University. “If this movement is real, and if it’s powerful, it will create its own institutions” (Kavoussi, 2011).

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

All that we once took for granted about the adamantine quality of US culture and its institutions and practices of democracy has evaporated and, in the process, the picture we had of the leadership of the US in so many domains is irreparably fading. We shouldn’t expect it to be all neat and simple and glorious soundtracks.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Why “meeting people where they are” matters: 1) We are generally a passive voting audience, if you meet us where we are, in theory we are more likely to participate – right? Check out the full schedule and join the conversation with #BigBlockOfCheeseDay.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

However, according to the AIA, now 50% of students in architecture programs are women, and the organization is now sponsoring an annual Women's Leadership Summit, which this year is in June in Miami. The landscape architecture field has plenty of women practitioners.

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