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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

From 2006–2010, UK Biobank recruited 500,000 UK citizens between the ages of 40 and 69 to supply biological samples (blood, urine, and saliva) and information about their lifestyle regularly on an ongoing basis. Find more AWS Institute thought leadership for public service leaders.

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

Center for Community Progress

Leadership included Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Jim Stamas (R-36), Sen. Leadership on the House side included House Appropriations Committee Chair Thomas Albert (R-86) and Rep. “Vacant properties are a statewide issue. The blight elimination program was originally proposed in the Senate through Senate Bill 834.

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta. Since its inception in 1991, the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc.

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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot to Open the 2022 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference

Center for Community Progress

Kendi and Mayor Lightfoot join Tonika Lewis Johnson and national philanthropic leaders as keynotes at national community development conference. To build a vibrant future, we must focus on the neighborhoods that missed out on investment and development, many in Chicago’s Black community. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places? Ironically one of the influences is a program developed in Pennsylvania, called Elm Street.

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

Center for Community Progress

These cohorts participate in learning exchanges in each other’s communities that feature a mix of technical and leadership trainings as well as local neighborhood tours. Each year, six resident leaders from three communities (eighteen people in total) are selected as fellows. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser

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How will the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme change in April 2023?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Cybersecurity has been subject to a wave of change over the last decade and is reflected in the UK Cyber Essentials Scheme Threat actors have developed extremely innovative ways of performing devastating attacks – an expanding arsenal of techniques that has forced a rethink in how organisations develop and deploy their defence strategies.

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