Fri.May 26, 2023

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A New Digital Legal Tool Helps Immigrant Workers Reclaim Their Stolen Wages

Next City

The ¡Reclamo! Tool was designed to help low-wage, immigrant workers seek economic justice by making wage theft claims and gathering data to inform activism.

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DHS Issues National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin

Disaster Zone blog

It’s good for the next six months.

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Reimagining the nursing workload: Finding time to close the workforce gap

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Redesigning care models through intentional delegation and potential tech enablement can free up nurses’ time.

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What Tyler v. Hennepin County Means for the Future of Property Tax Foreclosure Systems Across the Country

Center for Community Progress

There’s nothing fun about tax foreclosure. (Trust us, we wrote a whole report about it.) But when it comes to paying property taxes, the consequences are clear: Pay up or risk losing the property. That consequence exists for a reason. Property has intrinsic and monetary value. And property taxes fund basic community services like schools, roads, parks, sidewalks, and public safety—the things that enable families to live and build wealth in vibrant, secure neighborhoods.

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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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How to implement transformations for long-term impact

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

When it comes to implementing large-scale organizational change, the most successful organizations commit themselves fully to the effort from start to finish.

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What Municipalities Can Learn from the Surgeon General’s Mental Health Advisory 

NLC (National League of Cities)

From experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic to the opioid epidemic, Americans are struggling with mental health, and local governments are working on ways to help. The U.S. Surgeon General’s new report, “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation”, is a valuable resource for municipalities to bolster mental health in their communities.

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Housing For: Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders

NLC (National League of Cities)

The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community is incredibly diverse, consisting of numerous ethnicities, cultures, origin countries, languages and socioeconomic backgrounds. While AAPI is a term that unifies many, the AAPI community is far from monolithic. Local leaders must acknowledge and embrace the diversity within it.

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Why you should consider outcome-based security

GCN

Agencies can better align their cybersecurity and business priorities when they have affordable risk management solutions that deliver measurable results.

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ESG momentum: Seven reported traits that set organizations apart

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Survey respondents reporting increased ESG impact say their organizations focus on both protecting and creating value.

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Eliminating the speedbumps in EV charging station buildout

GCN

COMMENTARY | Energy management as a service gives EV charging station operators cloud-based tools for remote asset management and will help ensure they have the data to comply with the government’s 97% station uptime requirement.

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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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Optimizing your nonprofit mission impact with AWS Glue and Amazon Redshift ML

AWS Public Sector Blog

Nonprofit organizations focus on a specific mission to impact their members, communities, and the world. In the nonprofit space, where resources are limited, it’s important to optimize the impact of your efforts. Data analytics and machine learning (ML) tools on Amazon Web Services (AWS) make it simple to not only quantify your impact but also predict the outcome of an initiative before resources are dedicated.

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Prisons ‘under attack’ from drones delivering contraband

GCN

Experts said the issue has exploded in recent years but could be fixed if states get the authority to jam cellphone signals.

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How to Isolate the Weakest Link

GovLoop

If you think about it, there’s a fundamental disconnect between the concept of zero trust and the approach traditional security technology takes. As employees browse the internet or open email, legacy solutions scan the content for potential threats before allowing access. That’s not zero trust. That’s “innocent until proven guilty.” If you take zero trust seriously, you will treat all content as if it’s malicious, whether you detect a threat or not.

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Solving digital inequity with resident input

GCN

The Golden State wants to hear from the public about their broadband connections and device accessibility to better understand how to address digital equity barriers.

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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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Decision Intelligence: Data Ethics

GovLoop

By definition, data ethics refers to the norms of behavior that promote appropriate judgments and accountability when acquiring, managing or using data. There are three goals: protect civil liberties, minimize risks to individuals and society, and maximize the public good. It is about more than complying with legal requirements; in fact, some of the most controversial realms, such as AI, are largely unregulated anyway.

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Perfection is the Enemy of Successful Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Back in the aughts, I was a newly hired manager of corporate and foundation relations at a food bank with the directive to aggressively grow grant funding—by at least 25% in my first year. The agency had a strong base of family foundation support, but my job was to bring in larger grants and bring them in fast. With supportive management and coworkers, solid programs filling demonstrated needs, and documented outcomes, I was off to the grant-seeking races for larger private and corporate founda

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A Timing Update on Title IX Rulemaking

Homeroom

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring all students are guaranteed an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex. To that end, amending the Department of Education’s (Department’s) regulations that implement Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) is a top priority to ensure full protection against sex discrimination for all Continue Reading The post A Timing Update on Title IX Rulemaking appeared first on ED.gov Blog.