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What you missed at that 2023 IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference

AWS Public Sector Blog

Announcing the AWS IMAGINE Grant funding opportunity for 2023 To support and discover nonprofits that are bringing high-impact technology projects to life, AWS announced the launch of the 2023 funding cycle for the AWS IMAGINE Grant. We’ve seen some of the biggest and most innovative ideas come from IMAGINE Grant applicants.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Nine | Second stage planning for parks using the cultural landscape framework

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sugar House Park is almost 70 years old, and has different planning needs compared to when the park was created. Many of the "natural features" in Sugar House Park are specified in the post on climate change, " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change." Topography and viewsheds are key elements also.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Water conservation. for interpretation.

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Announcing new AWS data connector for popular nonprofit CRM: Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT

AWS Public Sector Blog

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software used by nonprofits to communicate with donors and drive fundraising programs. Cloud-based CRM tools are routinely used to collect, analyze, and leverage data that can help accelerate fundraising.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. This could significantly increase affordability, especially for FTHBs, and make housing transactions generally more cost-effective for both buyers and sellers. 3 In the modern era, U.S. labor force of 168 million.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plein Air for the Park is a fundraiser for Grand Teton National Park, where professional artists paint a park scene, and the paintings are sold (" Plein Air in Grand Teton National Park ," Homestead Magazine ). After the last one I went to, I joked "we don't need to do one in Sugar House Park. Maybe as part of a competition.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors " (2022) -- " School closure and consolidation planning needs to focus on integration planning at the outset as a separate process " (2023) Civic Agriculture and community food systems. Milch has been reading to the children during the summer for more than 25 years.