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4 tips to stay resilient during a government shutdown

Partnership for Public Service

During the 35-day government shutdown in 2018-2019, the Partnership hosted a Facebook Live with Virginia Hill , a senior executive coach and facilitator at the Partnership’s Public Service Leadership Institute , and Mika Cross, a strategic advisor to federal leaders on employee engagement.

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Lessons Learned from TANF Clients

Barrett & Greene

In researching the 26-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program recently, we had the chance to talk with Mary Beth Vogel-Ferguson, a University of Utah research professor who has spent the last 23 years in a state-funded project to interview TANF clients and share results with agency management and senior leadership. “My

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Progress in topological superconductors for quantum computing

Open Access Government - Technology News

Moore’s arrival at ORNL in 2019 brought expertise in ARPES (angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy) , a technique for studying a material’s electronic structure. ORNL’s investment in ARPES expertise led to its leadership in the Quantum Science Center (QSC), a DOE Quantum Information Science Research Center formed in 2020.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

Community Progress commends leadership at HUD and FHA for this effort and understanding of the need to make opportunities like the 203(k) program more accessible and functional. Many communities that Community Progress serves struggle to access financing products, and loan products for both acquisition and rehabilitation are even scarcer.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

Previously, he served as Director of Resource Development and Public Affairs for Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland providing fund development and policy leadership. Klein assumed the leadership of BOI (formerly FIELD) in 2012, after working as a senior consultant since the program’s inception in 1998.

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How cities can use transport data to reduce pollution and increase safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is a guest post by Rikesh Shah, outgoing head of open innovation at Transport for London, on behalf of the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation for public sector executives.

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

In August 2018, Governor Northam appointed him the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. From January through March of 2019, 28 people in the Winchester community died from fatal Fentanyl overdoses. His first order of business was to create a data governance framework.