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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

AWS Public Sector Blog

Advocacy is about taking action in real time, so we need to reach people wherever they are. By the end of 2020, 495 million people subscribed to mobile services in Sub-Saharan Africa, representing 46% of the region’s population – an increase of almost 20 million from 2019. Using AWS to deliver on our mission.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

Just ten lenders were responsible for originating 24 percent of mortgage loans to Black borrowers in 2019—only three of those lenders were traditional depository banks. Community Progress also joined with our coalition colleagues from other national nonprofit housing and consumer finance advocacy organizations as signatory to a joint letter.

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National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 23rd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted. Although states and localities can step in with interim funding to keep them open. They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. Security planning for trails.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Seattle's Feet First advocacy group is a great resource for such programs. Separately, the State of Washington Safe Routes to School program recommends that all cities create traffic safety committees to address such issues as they relate to schools, and SRTS improvements simultaneously benefit neighborhoods. Vision Zero.

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Providing transparency into government requests for enterprise data

Google Public Sector

These observations are based on the total number of government requests for user information (81,785) across all of Google we received from July 2019 to December 2019. First, the number of requests targeting enterprises (282) represents a very small percentage (0.3%) of the overall number of requests we received.

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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 response, ANDP’s board of directors unanimously voted to redirect all organization programming (housing development, lending, and advocacy) toward combating metro Atlanta’s devastating tide of foreclosures.

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Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation uses AWS to advance cutting-edge pediatric cancer research worldwide

AWS Public Sector Blog

refine.bio is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and with the support of the AWS IMAGINE Grant in 2019, the number of samples available via refine.bio surpassed 1 million. How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa. Learn more about the cloud for nonprofits , and check out more nonprofit stories.