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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. Since 2004 HeadCount has supported the registration of over one million voters. In 2021, Democracy Works continued to make an impact and sent 23.3

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When it is the Idea Store ,” 2004, Guardian ). A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification. Other examples are where multiple colleges offer programs from the same location.