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FedRAMP, StateRAMP cultivate small biz providers

GCN

Leaders from the federal and state cloud security authorization programs said they want to “open the aperture” for small businesses that offer secure services to government agencies. Cloud & Infrastructure

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The Garden State in bloom: Cultivating New Jersey’s workforce of tomorrow

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Total employment in New Jersey has rebounded to prepandemic levels but the state faces a talent shortage in selected occupations. A comprehensive talent strategy could unlock the full potential of New Jersey’s economy for all of its residents. Employment and Growth Public Sector United States Growth

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How Schools are Reducing Environmental Impacts, Improving Health, and Cultivating Stewards of Our Planet

Homeroom

The post How Schools are Reducing Environmental Impacts, Improving Health, and Cultivating Stewards of Our Planet appeared first on ED.gov Blog. Today the U.S. Department of Education named the 2022 U.S.

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Cultivating a New Generation of Diverse Environmental Leaders — Episode 060

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

As stewards of these spaces, it’s our responsibility to cultivate the next generation of diverse environmental leaders that will utilize and protect these spaces for generations to come. Parks everywhere serve as a gateway to nature and the great outdoors.

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How to accelerate innovation in new green business building

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Companies that want to scale quickly must cultivate deep market knowledge and a culture that embraces learning through failure. Digital Insights Leap by McKinsey Digital Growth Innovation Leadership Sustainability

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Celebrating the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools and Sustainability Efforts Across the Department

Homeroom

ceremony for their efforts to cultivate sustainable, healthy facilities, wellness. By: Andrea Suarez Falken, Special Advisor for Infrastructure and Sustainability, U.S. Department of Education. On July 26, the U.S.

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Season 5 Episode 10 - Inside VA's Innovative Workforce, IT Modernization Strategies

GovCast

President Biden's recent executive order on diversity, equity, inclusion and access calls on federal agencies "to cultivate a workforce that draws from the full diversity of the nation." Department of Veterans Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Dewaine Beard, as VA's No. 2 tech chief, discusses how his agency is implementing new workforce initiatives to drive a diverse, innovative culture. He also unpacks VA OIT's tech modernization and "vision-first" priorities ahead

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Helping Arapahoe County operate more efficiently with Google Cloud

Google Public Sector

Arapahoe, Colorado's first county, has been focused on cultivating growth opportunities for its residents for more than 150 years 1. Home to roughly 655,000 people from diverse backgrounds, Arapahoe County is projected to be one of the largest counties in Colorado within ten years 2.

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How to Build a Winning Team

Park Leaders

By cultivating an environment of validation, team members can derive contentment from their role and encourage others within their areas of influence.

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Using mindfulness practices for greater self-awareness and self-improvement: Rabbi Marc Margolius, Senior Program Director, Institute for Jewish Spirituality – Episode #201

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Our guest today has deep expertise in helping people cultivate self-awareness and mindfulness in order to (to paraphrase his own words) help them become the person they’re meant to be in the world, hopefully growing towards that day by day.

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The Intelligence Community: Meaningful work, great leaders, diverse opportunities and work-life balance

Partnership for Public Service

Whether it’s rewarding strong performance or supporting an employee in a time of need, IC leaders know that valuing their people is critical for cultivating a committed workforce.

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Is It Possible to Submit the Same Proposal to Multiple Funders?

Peak Proposals

Regardless of what you decide to do with unsolicited proposals, don’t forget to employ the best grant strategy, which is to cultivate relationships with funders in addition to focusing on open requests for proposals. If you are wondering if it is a viable strategy to write one proposal and submit it as-is to multiple funders, the basic answer is no, it’s not advisable. There are some limited exceptions, which we get into later, but that’s the general rule.

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Core Forum Call for Proposals Now Open - New Orleans, LA, October 19-21, 2023 #LibraryLeadership

A Library Writer's Blog

Core’s mission is to cultivate and amplify the collective expertise of library workers in core functions through community building, advocacy, and learning Core wants to hear from you! Share your interesting projects, research, perspectives, or experiences at Core Forum in New Orleans , October 19-21, 2023.

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CFP - Beyond the Numbers 2023 (November 6th-8th, 2023 - St. Louis, Missouri)

A Library Writer's Blog

Possible topics include but are not limited to: Data Literacy How do we cultivate it for ourselves? Call for Proposals for Beyond the Numbers 2023 Submission deadline: Friday, June 9, 2023 Conference URL: [link] The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis seeks submissions for its biennial conference on economic information.

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Seating third parties at the risk table

Partnership for Public Service

Break down silos, share information and proactively review your risks and opportunities to cultivate a risk averse culture.

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4 Tips for Leveraging Data in Your Grant Report

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Additionally, sharing how your participants are better off as a result of your programming can go a long way to help cultivate your relationships with funders, increasing your chances for future funding.

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Top 3 Tips for Increasing Positive Board Involvement for Grants and Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

With that, I give you the top three tips for increasing positive board involvement for grants and fundraising: Ramp Up Board Orientation: Make sure to include basics on cultivation (AKA networking) of potential donors and grantmakers for every new board member.

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Pivotal Solutions’ strategy for providing high quality software and support

Open Access Government - Technology News

Software Consultant Paul Wallace, explains how Pivotal Solutions Limited have cultivated 20 years of success through high quality software and forming good relationships with customers.

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Celebrating Earth Day with Parks and Recreation — April Bonus Episode

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Throughout Ayanna’s career, she has cultivated a broad perspective and deep understanding of environmental resilience, building and maintaining relationships, and engaging in work that depends on diverse local partnerships and the support of national institutions. The April issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on today’s bonus episode we’re diving into one of this month’s feature stories, “ Celebrating Earth Day.”

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How to solve problems in your nonprofit

Grant Writing Made Easy

They could: Ask for summer donations from their existing donor base Cultivate new donors Search for 5 grant opportunities. Similarly, finding and cultivating new donors will require a lot of time-consuming networking.

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What Should You Be Doing: Fundraising or Pursuing Grant Money?

Peak Proposals

However, fundraising typically refers to generating cash donations by either cultivating individual donors; by holding fundraising events such as auctions or athletic events such a 5K race; or through an ongoing, general appeal for donations through a website or mail-based campaign.

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Providing a secure cloud for agency applications

Partnership for Public Service

By expanding what roles fall into the cybersecurity workforce and cultivating a unified approach to cloud security, agencies can be more agile, capable and proactive in responding to threats.

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Collaborating effectively in government with Google Workspace

Google Public Sector

Organizations that cultivate meaningful collaboration can critically impact employee retention and morale. Google Workspace was designed to connect people so they can create, build, and grow together.

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Does Revenue Diversification Actually Work for Nonprofits?

Peak Proposals

The downside of these partnerships (mostly on the nonprofit side) is that they can be time consuming and costly to cultivate. Nonprofits are always told to diversify their revenue streams. On its face, this advice makes sense.

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Privileged access: Understanding security inside out

Open Access Government - Technology News

Enhancing security and productivity simultaneously Indeed, it is vital to use these solutions in combination to cultivate an effective PAS strategy capable of combatting the risks associated with privileged access while improving – not impeding – workforce productivity.

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The 2023 Guide to Social Media for Libraries: New YouTube Success Secrets for This Year

Super Library Marketing

Your library will want to cultivate loyal viewers so that your content is shown to those viewers every time they visit the platform. Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. This is the fourth installment in my series on social media best practices for libraries in 2023.

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Regulations carving out a path for new businesses? They may be less important than you think.

The Lowe Down

This analysis loosely suggests that regulation complexity may not play as important a role as often perceived in cultivating entrepreneurship and new businesses. Article by Abbas Seltzer. Regulations carving out a path for new businesses? They may be less important than you think.

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5 Tips To Winnings More Grants Faster

iGrantWriters

Cultivate a good relationship with the funding agency - Regardless of what kind of grant you are trying to obtain it will be awarded by a single person or a collective body of decision-makers. Every year billions of dollars are given away through grants.

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Grant Writing For Educators - Where To Start and What You Should Know

Grant Central USA

A lot of people are just grant writing, but you have the opportunity as an educator to start cultivating in a relationship with potential funders that will be likely to get to your calls over the course of time.

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CFP: 2022 Core Forum - Salt Lake City, Utah - October 13-15, 2022 @ALA_Core

A Library Writer's Blog

About Core Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, and Futures is the division of the American Library Association whose mission is to cultivate and amplify the collective expertise of library workers in core functions through community building, advocacy, and learning.

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Accelerating innovation in Australia and New Zealand: AWS Summit Canberra keynote recap

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS supports local programs in Australia and New Zealand to cultivate an interest in technology with students and help provide opportunities to a variety of career paths.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Our blog posts typically focus on grant strategies for nonprofit institutions. In this post, we’re going to focus on a different topic for a more targeted audience. The topic is research funding. The content will be most relevant to US-based academics.

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