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

AWS Public Sector Blog

This blog post highlights the 2023 awardees. Released in 2019, GOV.BR The awards champion practitioners, teams, and leaders who transform people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves. has become an indispensable service and is part of Brazilians’ daily lives.

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Lessons from 2023 VAD Academy: Systemic Racism is a Root Cause of Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

Every year, the Center for Community Progress hosts VAD Academy, our virtual boot camp for public, private, nonprofit, and community leaders whose communities are impacted by vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties. Some cities, like Detroit, are working to correct the overvaluation with equity in mind.

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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs [link] accessed via [link] Accessed July 18, 2023. Source: Wikimedia Creative Commons, Accessed July 18, 2023. Source Wikimedia Creative Commons, Accessed July 18, 2023. Cooperatives and nonprofit ventures are another.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Operationally, usually they are run by nonprofits separate from a city parks department, may be organized as parks conservancies (" Creating a Park Conservancy that Fits ," NRPA) have financial support philanthropically or from the equivalent of a special service/tax district. They are often strongly branded. Open Streets.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

On April 17, 2023, the Center for Community Progress submitted a response to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Rehabilitation Mortgages. You can read our full response here. You can read our full response here. All responses to the RFI can be viewed on HUD’s comments page.

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Defining Data Equity

GovLoop

Risk factor group data from Community Resilience Estimates (CRE), which use 2019 ACS microdata and population estimates to measure individuals’ and households’ ability to handle the external impacts of a disaster.

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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

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.