Center for Community Progress

APRIL 6, 2023

By: Liz Kozub I got my start in transforming vacant properties in 2012 as an intern for the City of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a dense community of just over 2,000 residents with tremendous community pride. I went house-to-house with a clipboard documenting the conditions of vacant properties that dotted its beautiful brick streets.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Provide details about how you support your partners (training, documentation, administrative support, etc.). Clearly document any assumptions you have made relative to types of instances a customer would likely use and why and how changing those assumptions would impact price. Common values are production, dev, test, QA, or staging.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

Guardian has many stories based on the leaked documents. -- " The Uber Files ". Before the rise of the app you had to know who was the taxi provider in every city and contact them to get a ride, unless you hailed a cab on the street or went to a taxi stand.

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A Library Writer's Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

2012, 6) Teaching has become a core activity in academic libraries over the last decades, but librarians may find their teaching role to be a complicated one. "Librarians teach. It might not be what we planned to do when we entered the profession, or it may have been our secret hope all along. Either way, we teach." Oakleaf et al.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 11, 2023

The documents submitted to the Planning Commission included a 101 page response. Interestingly, the article discusses the back and forth between the community and the development group on their provision of various community benefits, which the community says has been laggard. I haven't tracked it down yet. Privately managed public spaces.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

Planning document. Jennifer Bransfield—now the organization’s chief operations officer and general counsel— indicates that a majority of this investment occurred within a single census tract. National Monument. In 2015, the Pullman manufacturing site was designated as a national monument, the Pullman National Historic Park. Evaluation.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Socioeconomic status is one of the most well-documented correlates with juvenile delinquency. Exclusionary discipline, like suspension and expulsion, lead to lower academic achievement, probability of on-time high school graduation, and greater contact with the juvenile justice system.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In the past couple years, several rigorous studies have documented the growth of these nonprofit funding groups, across numerous service delivery areas. What’s more, they are not sporadic or limited to a single service area; they span every service function and level of government. References. LeRoux, Kelly.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

Written in a neutral regulatory tone, the document largely validates these criticisms via facts and analysis, and then proposes extensive recommendations for change. 3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Klein assumed the leadership of BOI (formerly FIELD) in 2012, after working as a senior consultant since the program’s inception in 1998. In this role, Emily administers and oversees the daily operation of the Bank’s CRA program, maintains CRA documentation, and delivers organization-wide CRA training.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. Social Media in the United States. Sustainability Factors or Lack Thereof.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

The planning documents, Safe Streets for All Action Plan and Safety Data Analysis in particular, have a lot of great graphics communicating information in various ways about where crashes occur, demographics, etc., CMPO’s 2024 Safety Summit will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the Community Room of the Logan Library on May 16.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

And that it was adjacent to the Dudley Street neighborhood, which had its own community improvement organization too, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, documented in the book Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. When neighborhoods become attractive at the scale of the metropolitan area, prices go up.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

2] For an explanation of why it is so closely watched, see the Addendum at the end of this document. [3] percent excise tax set by Congress became effective in April 2012 – so primary mortgage lenders saw an increase in the G-fee even if the two GSEs did not receive any more revenue, as previously explained. [6] Excluding the $0.4

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In 2012, Ruvos saw that advances in cloud computing could take the platform to the next level, helping address challenges such as the resource constraints faced by labs, the sensitive nature of public health data exchanged, the need to rapidly scale data exchange during an outbreak, and the ever-crucial need for timely and accurate data.

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Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It is the most revealing document about what a government values. While it may not be as revealing of a document as the budget, it is still critical. It, like your budget, is a technical document. On page 91 of that document, it discusses sales taxes for general revenue. All revenues should be included.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Most of the state government policies and documents are available primarily in a local language, English, or both. Extracting actionable intelligence and summarizing information in those large numbers of documents is a common challenge faced by government staff, and it currently involves a huge amount of manual effort.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

In a previous post about intelligent document processing (IDP), hereafter referred to as IDP post, we demonstrated how to develop an IDP solution using Anthropics Claude 3 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock. If using a member account within an AWS organization, follow the steps outlined in the App Studio documentation to enable the service.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The business applications include requests for Employer Identification Numbers and other documents associated with starting a business, so this metric is a proxy for overall businesses opening in a given state. . FIGURE 1: 2012-2020 Business Application Compound Annual Growth Rates by State.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 24, 2025

As of this writing, page 6 will have the years 2012 through 2025. NOAA has provided documentation on each column at the open-data-docs repository. The NOAA documentation shows that the first column is the station ID (ID). As of this writing, if you select 6 , you will see files for the years 2012-2025.csv. csv and 1764.csv

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In the Reaganite 1980s, real estate was one of the few industries to maintain strong support for the Democratic Party, as the political scientists Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers documented. This was partly because Democrats retained political dominance in the major cities where development promised the highest returns.

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Partnership for Public Service

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, amended by the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 , protects certain civil servants in the executive branch who report waste, fraud or abuse from retaliation or other abuses of authority. Documenting any adverse actions taken after reporting is absolutely crucial.

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