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Who will win? Meet the top 6 finalists for our 2024 People’s Choice Award

Partnership for Public Service

Nancy Alcantara, Shannon Rebolledo, Justin Uphold and the Packers Sanitation Investigation Leads Team At the Department of Labor, Nancy Alcantara, Shannon Rebolledo and Justin Uphold uncovered extensive child labor violations involving more than 100 minors at 13 meat slaughterhouses across eight states, leading to a landmark $1.5

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Why hide from data?

Barrett & Greene

Though this may be short sighted, we can certainly understand that there's pressure to use limited resources on direct services, like sanitation, pot-hole filling or public safety. It's a simple equation: Clean up the potholes and it’ll help you get re-elected. Measure the number of potholes and nobody will notice.

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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Recently, Bass and her team have been strategizing with the police, recreation and sanitation departments and working with supportive housing providers. Theyre deeply rooted in poverty, homelessness, the lack of affordable housing, a low-wage economy, cheap and powerfully destructive drugs and gang-controlled criminal enterprise.

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Overcoming the Digital Divide: Lessons State and Local Governments can Learn from the Hospitality Industry

Government Technology Insider

Staff Safety Between building maintenance, janitorial staff and public service personnel such as those in health departments, sanitation and wastewater facilities, child services and courtrooms, the risk of safety incidents range from simple falls or on-the-job injuries to outside safety threats.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. Conservancies and BIDs as special service districts. and they collect special monies to pay for it.

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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many communities lack a clear process for reporting and addressing problems in the public space. Problems such as graffiti, people in mental health crisis, sanitation, etc., In addition, BIDs like the Times Square Alliance also have some capacity to address issues through sanitation staff and other means.

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An inside look at the ‘Oscars’ of government: Meet our 2024 Sammies winners

Partnership for Public Service

11, the Partnership or Public Service hosted the 23 rd annual Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals® at the John F. Max Stier President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service Partnership President and CEO Max Stier. On Wednesday, Sept. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.