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How to prepare for a successful foundation site visit

Professional Grant Writer

Foundations and other funders may request a site visit before they approve funding for a grant. This is often a typical part of. The post How to prepare for a successful foundation site visit appeared first on Professional Grant Writer.

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Efforts to Protect and Repatriate Native American Cultural Items and Human Remains

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

Native American cultural items—including pottery, weapons, and sacred objects—have long been the target of theft by individuals seeking to collect or sell them. Federal agencies and museums have also acquired Native American human remains and.

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A devilish duality: How CEOs can square resilience with net-zero promises

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Amid turbulence on the path to net zero, leaders will have to be much nimbler to balance resilience with an energy future that is secure, affordable, and clean. Five actions can help.

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The Value of Contract Administration for Cities

NLC (National League of Cities)

The benefit of a city’s procurement function may be overlooked or underrecognized by the executive and legislative branches, especially if it’s operating with few problems. In fact, for public procurement professionals whose job duties include contract administration, it can be tempting to leave contracts alone unless – or more accurately: until – there is an […] Source.

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The Ultimate Playground Inspection Handbook

Dive into the world of playground safety with this complimentary guide. It offers a detailed exploration of essential practices to ensure the utmost safety for children. Delve into inspection techniques, from assessing equipment conditions to evaluating surfacing materials. Gain insights into maintenance strategies to keep playgrounds in top-notch condition year-round.

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Author Talks: How to learn and lead calmly through volatile times

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Three McKinsey veterans condense decades of boardroom experience and cognitive science into a guide for learning proactively and leading dynamically amid the most uncertain circumstances.

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Digital Signage Guides Travelers and Tourists to the Right Location

FedTech Magazine

Visitors entering the partially reopened National Air and Space Museum will be greeted by new high-resolution digital signs to guide them to the refurbished exhibits. They will also find signature artifacts augmented by technology designed to better show off the museum’s collection. The popular Washington, D.C.-based museum, in the midst of a seven-year, $1 billion face-lift, completed the first phase of its modernization effort in early October.

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Microsoft Priva is generally available to GCC, GCC High and DoD

Microsoft Public Sector

Microsoft Priva is generally available to GCC, GCC High and DoD. Safeguard personal data, automate risk mitigation, and manage subject rights requests with Microsoft Priva. For years, existing privacy regulations like the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have been paving the path for how g overnment organizations prioritize privacy.

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Operating with a Sense of Urgency

Park Leaders

On this episode of the Park Leaders Show, guest co-host, Phil Gaines, returns to discuss the importance of operating with a sense of urgency. While urgency is often discussed as a function of time, as Phil explains, the term for park rangers should be viewed through intentionality. Like business leaders, park rangers should not reduce urgency to deadlines but enhance it through deliberation.

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Bogotá and Cali Connect Local Action to National Ambition to Transform the Buildings Sector

The City Fix

Following the launch of Colombia’s first National Roadmap for Net Zero Buildings in June 2022, the cities of Bogotá and Cali are setting the foundation for how to implement the roadmap at the local level. The municipal governments of both cities have.

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Federal funding may boost social determinants of health infrastructure

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Federal-funding mechanisms represent an often-underused funding source for public- and private-sector stakeholders when enhancing SDoH data, analytics, and technology infrastructure.

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7 Signs Your Local Government ERP Is Holding You Back: A Guide for Small Municipalities

Local governments and municipalities serving populations under 200,000 face distinctive challenges in delivering efficient and effective services to their communities. To overcome these challenges, many rely on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems tailored to their specific needs. Not all ERP systems are created equal, and some may hinder progress rather than support it.

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Introducing reCAPTCHA Enterprise’s Mobile SDK to help protect iOS, Android apps

Google Public Sector

reCAPTCHA Enterprise is Google’s online fraud detection service that leverages more than a decade of experience defending the internet. reCAPTCHA Enterprise can be used to prevent fraud and attacks perpetrated by scripts, bot software, and humans. When installed inside a mobile app at the point of action, such as login, purchase, or account creation, reCAPTCHA Enterprise can block fake users and bots while allowing legitimate users to proceed.

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Smart scheduling: How to solve workforce-planning challenges with AI

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

AI-driven schedule optimizers can alleviate age-old scheduling headaches—reducing employee downtime, improving productivity, and minimizing. schedule-related service disruptions.

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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘Disaster Damage Prediction Using AI and Aerial Imagery’

Disaster Zone blog

Helping insurance companies price their policies and estimate damages.

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The McKinsey Crossword: Hot Stuff | No. 100

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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Sustainable Facility Maintenance Management for Small Local Governments

Unlock the potential of sustainable facility management! This guide empowers small local governments to lead with climate-resilient infrastructure, energy efficiency, waste reduction, and more. Elevate your community's resilience, reduce costs, and embrace eco-friendly practices. Discover the role of facility maintenance teams in green cleaning, sustainability analyses, and infrastructure upgrades.

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How to Drive Digital Transformation

GovLoop

An interview with Dan Kent, Chief Technology Officer, Red River. The public experiences government innovation in different ways. At times, it simply makes routine tasks, such as renewing your driver’s license, less arduous. Sometimes it makes internal government systems better — by moving operations to the cloud and away from outdated IT, for instance.

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Tracking diversity, equity, and inclusion data in private markets

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Institutional investors and private equity firms can implement some basic but crucial best practices to measure progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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How Nomad uses Amazon IVS to scale public court livestreams

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to the United States Constitution, public access to judicial proceedings is a right covered by the First and Sixth Amendments. To make hearings visible to the public, even when in-person attendance is limited, state and local governments are beginning to mandate many court proceedings be live streamed, often with a very short window to do so.

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The state of diversity in global private markets: 2022

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

New research captures regional differences in the state of diversity in private equity and discusses the role of institutional investors as a catalyst for change.

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ASPA TIMES Magazine: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

PA TIMES Magazine is a publication of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), a not-for-profit corporation. This edition focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in public administration, including guest columns, insights for the field and interviews with city government DEI officers about their work at the local level.

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Inadequate Software Management Can Hinder States Facing Critical Updates

State Tech Magazine

Forty-eight percent of states say at least half of their applications need to be modernized, yet only 36 percent have detailed, current information about their application portfolio to make that happen, according to a recent survey conducted by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers and cloud service provider VMware.

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Enhance the citizen experience with deep learning-powered suggestions

AWS Public Sector Blog

Every interaction a citizen has with government is an opportunity to enhance the customer experience with rich citizen engagement and direct lines of feedback. Recent federal priorities have been set to improve the citizen experience when interacting with government. Deep learning image analysis and high-performant yet cost-effective architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can modernize constituent experiences and improve digital interactions with government.

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Tech summit explores innovation in state and local gov

GCN

Route Fifty and GCN join forces for the virtual GovExec SLG Tech Summit happening this week, Nov. 1-3. Tune in to hear from local leaders from across the country about how innovations in technology are improving operations and services.

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CFP: NASIG 2023 Annual Conference - Pittsburgh, PA May 22-25, 2023

A Library Writer's Blog

NASIG is soliciting proposals for its 38th Annual Conference, to be held May 22-25, 2023 in Pittsburgh, PA at the historic and elegant Omni William Penn Hotel. We are currently seeking in-person presentations. NASIG conference presenters and attendees will be expected to follow hotel Covid safety protocols. This is an in-person conference, but NASIG will also be offering a virtual conference at a later date in 2023.

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Proactive vs Reactive Maintenance: Making the Case for Preparedness

Discover comprehensive strategies for optimizing operations and achieving cost efficiency! This document offers insights into efficient inspections, data-driven decision-making, goal alignment, and resource optimization. It empowers local governments and maintenance departments to streamline operations and ensure significant cost savings. From aligning maintenance goals with community needs to leveraging data for strategic planning, this guide provides a roadmap for smoother, more reliable opera

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Collaboration guides state’s blueprint for transformation

GCN

Colorado’s Office of Technology works closely with agency partners, weighing in their needs to shape IT projects that improve operations.

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November top 5 for under 5

Princeton Public Library

We invite you to check out this month’s PPL Youth Services recommendations for activities, resources and new books in the library collection for children up to five years old and […].

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Civic tech grant looks to correct language barriers in UI claims

GCN

A tech nonprofit that sprung up during the pandemic is starting a new project focused on language access in the unemployment system.

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Preparing for the Quantum Future: A Quantum Internet Guide for Federal Agencies Part 1

Government Technology Insider

The future of the internet is quantum, and it isn’t far from actuality. Over the past two years, the U.S. federal government has made the creation of the quantum internet a national priority. In early 2020, the Department of Energy (DoE) held a workshop that resulted in a roadmap and guide for creating the first quantum internet, and in 2021 the government budgeted over $235 million to begin building this next generation communication network.

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Facility Maintenance Trends for 2024: What's Changing in the Industry?

This comprehensive article delves into the transformative trends reshaping local government facility maintenance in anticipation of 2024. From embracing smart technology for efficient management, sustainability's pivotal role to data-driven decision-making, workforce upskilling, and predictive maintenance strategies, each aspect is explored. Insights into outsourcing collaborations, digital twins, safety enhancements, and the broader industry evolution highlight the critical adaptation needed.

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Virginia election officials find 149K more unprocessed voter changes from DMV

GCN

Voter registration data was blocked from being transferred to local election offices due to computer coding issues, officials said.

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What Are CIOs Thinking in 2022

Barrett & Greene

We were fascinated by some of the most significant changes signaled in the recently released annual CIO survey from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. Our series about the future of state and local government jobs , is being published this week by Route Fifty. And based on our many interviews for those columns, we were heartened to see the reskilling of employees jump dramatically in its importance in the NASCIO CIO survey as the “single action” that would most affect

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Solar, telecom rollouts offer lessons for mass EV charging station deployments

GCN

Installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the next eight years will require cloud-based deployment management tools to coordinate work, manage budgets, facilitate real-time tracking and reporting and create a single source of truth for field staff and local leaders.

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Cities Celebrate One-Year Anniversary of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

NLC (National League of Cities)

Last November, local leaders stood beside President Biden as he signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. Known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), this legislation kicked off a five-year race to get federal infrastructure funds out to local communities. Infrastructure has been a top NLC advocacy priority for years, and now a […] Source.

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Efficiency and Sustainability: Leveraging Digital Solutions in Facility Operations

Speaker: Alan Kavanaugh, BA, CRM, CCPI ​​​​​​​Director of Loss Control & Risk Management

This session is designed to unveil the transformative potential of digital solutions in reshaping conventional practices, offering a roadmap towards greener and more efficient facilities regardless of municipality size. Attendees will learn: Insights into cutting-edge trends and strategies in sustainable facility management. Practical knowledge to effectively incorporate digital solutions for operational efficiency.