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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

This funding typically makes up only approximately one-third of the federal budget, with a majority of spending going toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and mandatory programs that fall outside the purview of annual appropriations. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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A 21st-Century Education in Ohio Prisons

GovLoop

When Sanders became superintendent in 2019, she and ODRC leaders agreed that they needed to educate inmates for 21st-century opportunities, with 21st-century tools. The security and user protections built into Chromebooks for K-12 education have been adapted for similar concerns with incarcerated students.

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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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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

Purpose, crisis and new leadership The starting point, as always with the instinct for systemic reform, is purpose born of crisis: When Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine’s president in 2019, he promised to modernise a state that until then had been a byword for bureaucracy and corruption.

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The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How One Libary Marketing Team Executed a Grand Opening of Epic Proportions for Their New Library Building

Super Library Marketing

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library On a mild night in April 2019, I arrived at a steak restaurant in Schaumburg Township, Illinois to have dinner with a group of people I’d never met. I had been invited to speak at an event put on by the Illinois Library Association. Then the project hit a snag.

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

According to 2019 census data, over a million North Carolina households are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing. 153A-149, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided.” Securing Public Benefits: Conditions to Impose on Affordable Housing Projects.