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Future of Government Awards 2023 celebrate use of technology to transform people’s lives

AWS Public Sector Blog

Released in 2019, GOV.BR In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs. Digital advocates of the year Winner: Digital Identity Directorate Team – Brazil The Digital Identity Directorate Team implemented the innovative GOV.BR

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In terms of overall waste reduction planning, it's essential to include all properties in a jurisdiction within planning (" More on zero waste practice (and DC) ," 2015). Sometimes a local government may make grants to organizations in this space that are nonprofits, but the groups are generally a mix of for profits and nonprofits.

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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 some suburban counties—where the poor population more than doubled from 2000 to 2015—ANDP has often been one of the few affordable housing nonprofits, and in some cases the only one, engaged in rehabilitating and repopulating single-family homes for LMI households.

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Defining Data Equity

GovLoop

MCE is designed to help users identify underserved communities and relies on four main datasets: Select demographic and socioeconomic statistics from the 2015-19 American Community Survey (ACS), which helps determine how $675 billion in federal and state funds get distributed each year. 8, 2023. “We

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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

Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath.