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How NPOs and NGOs embrace digital transformation for sustainability with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focusing on sustainability are dedicated to fostering a healthy environment, preserving our planet, and providing a livable future for upcoming generations. Where to start Explore nonprofit cloud solutions at AWS for Nonprofits.

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Scientists in Parks Internship Program - Natural Resource Stewardship

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Deadline to Apply October 01, 2021

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State of Land Banking: 2023 Survey Highlights 

Center for Community Progress

80 percent of respondents are public authorities, though land banks vary in shape and size from divisions of government to private nonprofit entities. When asked where most of their inventory is located, 58 percent of land banks reported inventory in urban areas and 23 percent reported inventory in rural areas.

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The Problem with Calling Neighborhoods with Vacant Properties “Blighted” 

Center for Community Progress

Strategies like land banks , strategic code enforcement , delinquent property tax enforcement , vacant land stewardship , and creative placemaking.) These terms are more accurate and they acknowledge strategies that equitably, efficiently, and effectively get those properties back to productive, community-aligned uses.

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A Year In Review

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

And for us in the nonprofit and grant-writing sector, we have certainly learned a lot! The challenges, upheaval, and uncertainties of the last few years have taught us how to rediscover, re-evaluate, and re-align with the heart of our mission: why we do what we do, how we do it, and for whom we do it.

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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

And all land banks have partnered with either nonprofit housing providers or private local contractors to create more affordable housing choices, including rental units, across the state. Fifteen land banks have partnered with Habitat for Humanity affiliates to expand quality, affordable homeownership opportunities.

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How the Tri-COG Land Bank is Transforming Vacant Properties in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

But access to quality affordable homes can be a challenge due to extreme neighborhood disinvestment, lack of resources and expertise among individual buyers to fix up vacant properties, and few private or nonprofit housing developers. Click here to learn more about our services and approach.