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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

May 24, 2022 – The Center for Community Progress (Community Progress) is honored to share the participants for the 2022-23 Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF). The post Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico appeared first on Center for Community Progress.

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A Message from President and CEO Akilah Watkins

Center for Community Progress

Dear friends and supporters of the Center for Community Progress, With great sadness and great gratitude, I announce that I will be departing from the Center for Community Progress at the end of 2022, to assume the role of President and CEO of Independent Sector.

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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

NSDC is a nonprofit from India’s Ministry of Finance with a mission to promote the development of skills among Indian learners through the creation of large vocational institutions. Since the launch of the Singapore Region in 2010, AWS has invested over $6.51 And, in 2022 alone, AWS created 1,000 jobs in Singapore.

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5 public sector technology predictions for 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

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. And of 1,022 spacecraft placed in orbit during the first six months of 2022, the majority— 958 —were from the commercial sector.

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New “Blight Elimination Program” Offers Transformative Grant Funding to Rural and Urban Michigan Communities

Center for Community Progress

LANSING, MI – On June 30, 2022, the Michigan State House and Senate passed H.B. Michigan Association of Land Banks and Center for Community Progress applaud the bill, which provides much-needed funding for vacant property stabilization, remediation, and demolition. For more information, visit milandbank.org.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To me, a classic failure to do this kind of work to result in significant improvements in civic participation are DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions , which get little in the way of help. -- " Setting up DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions for success ," 2022 There are 46 bodies, set up to cover part of a Ward.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to the United Nations (UN) 2022 Global Assessment Report on Climate Reduction , worldwide disasters will get worse if current trends continue. I saw first-hand how communities are impacted by these types of events while living in Haiti in 2010,” shared Andrés Meira, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Grillo.