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Child Care Benefits at Work: This App Helps Your Employer Pay Family and Friends for Babysitting

Next City

Helpr, one of the fastest-growing apps offering backup child care, is behind new California legislation that would require big employers to give their workers subsidized backup care.

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Community partner spotlight: Princeton Adult School

Princeton Public Library

To extend our community outreach, the library partners with the many municipal, non-profit, and business organizations that make Princeton such an extraordinary town. This month, we spoke with Anne Brener, executive director of Princeton Adult School. As the library’s community engagement coordinator, and a former member of the board of Princeton Adult School, I can […].

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Real Estate Trends in Delaware

First State Insights

Jay White, Founder and President of Apex Realty Advisory in Wilmington, Delaware, speaks with Sean O’Neill, Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about real estate trends in Delaware. During this April 21, 2021 interview, Jay provides his expert opinion and analysis on how the pandemic and remote work have impacted Delaware’s office, housing, and retail markets, and what policymakers can expect in the future.

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Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act: An Initial Analysis of Short-Term Trends

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The NYU Furman Center analyzed several housing indicators to gain deeper insight into the initial impacts of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA). We examined measures that have been commonly discussed in the public debate on HSTPA, including a comparison of multifamily sale prices, alteration job filings, housing quality complaints, code violations, and eviction filings before and after the passage of HSTPA.

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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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S25 Episode 01: Everyday Inventions For Better Parks

ParkTalk podcast

John Teper, one of the park operations managers for the Naperville Park District, shares some of the innovations that staff has developed to solve everyday problems. These include a dust shield for a baseball field groomer, a paint mixing station, floating islands of native plants in ponds and more. John Teper, one of the park operations managers for the Naperville Park District, shares some of the innovations that staff has developed to solve everyday problems.

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Providing meals to vulnerable communities

Public Sector Future

In this episode we speak with André Correr, Institutional Relations and Project Manager at Best.Projects, Microsoft’s Government Partner of the Year. Best.Projects was recognized for their innovative work over the past year to deliver food to vulnerable communities in São Paulo, Brazil during the global pandemic. Click here for transcript of this episode.

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How we announced we’re strongly encouraging salary/hourly pay scale in online job postings

Librarian.net

I am the lead on the Vermont Library Association website. One of the things we do a LOT of is post jobs. Many of these jobs are in small or rural libraries and don’t always pay well. We made a decision to start strongly encouraging people to post the pay range and here was our explanation for why. We’ve been talking amongst ourselves on the web team and wanted to put in a friendly encouragement for people to put salary or hourly $$ ranges and description of benefits in their job ads

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Episode 168: The Richard Spires guide to a career in tech

FedHeads

Richard Spires converted wisdom gained from a career in tech that spanned both public and private sector organizations into a book every ambitious tech exec should read: “Success in the Technology Field: A Guide for Advancing Your Career.” Join the FedHeads this week for a taste of what you’ll learn. Richard Spires converted wisdom gained from a career in tech that spanned both public and private sector organizations into a book every ambitious tech exec should read: “Success in the Technology F

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Providing meals to vulnerable communities

Public Sector Future

In this episode we speak with André Correr, Institutional Relations and Project Manager at Best.Projects, Microsoft’s Government Partner of the Year. Best.Projects was recognized for their innovative work over the past year to deliver food to vulnerable communities in São Paulo, Brazil during the global pandemic. Click here for transcript of this episode.

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Reduce Risks with Software Supply Chain Using Software Factories with Micro Focus

CarahCast

Recent breaches within government agencies have proven that they face many threat vectors that need to be addressed. Having a clean supply chain is critical to developing reliable software solutions that meet or exceed customer and market expectations for security, integrity, and reliability. Micro Focus offers a comprehensive, multi-layered approach that allows us the ability to respond quickly to customer requirements while still controlling risks associated with today’s cyber threats.

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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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The Fastest Way to Prepare a Compliant, Responsive Grant Proposal

Peak Proposals

Preparing a grant proposal is a deadline-driven task, and sometimes, those deadlines can be very close at hand by the time you discover the opportunity and decide to apply. If you only have a few weeks to pull together a grant proposal, what’s the fastest way to pull together a proposal? In our experience, it comes down to developing your proposal in stages, beginning with detailed planning.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Some years ago I met a 31-year-old Bulgarian policeman whose main claim to fame was that he had been the Chief of Police for the Republic of Haiti for 20 minutes, or in other words until someone more senior arrived from Port-au-Prince airport. This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. Nobody knows how many casualties there were in that disaster: perhaps 240,000 dead and 300,000 injured.

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The Fastest Way to Prepare a Compliant, Responsive Grant Proposal

Peak Proposals

August 17, 2021 Preparing a grant proposal is a deadline-driven task, and sometimes, those deadlines can be very close at hand by the time you discover the opportunity and decide to apply. If you only have a few weeks to pull together a grant proposal, what’s the fastest way to pull together a proposal? In our experience, it comes down to developing your proposal in stages, beginning with detailed planning.

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