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Land Banks and Community Land Trusts: Emerging Partners for a Resilient and Equitable Recovery

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, Kim Graziani , Senior Advisor for National Technical Assistance at Community Progress, discusses how the unique powers of land banks could be used to acquire, stabilize, and transfer problem properties to community land trusts to create long-term community benefits and more equitable recovery in neighborhoods across America.

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Announcing the 2021 Google Cloud Customer Award Winners in Education and Research

Google Public Sector

Winner: Penn State World Campus. At Penn State World Campus , learners all over the world take classes online. The team used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify processes that could be automated, and implemented a virtual assistant to provide responses to routine queries. Winner: Cignition.

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Islands of innovation: Creating smart and sustainable European marinas and ports

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Spanish State Port Authority, for example, is backing the Port 4.0 Up to €20 million is being awarded to innovative proposals in the first stage of the program. million in investment—75% of it via the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan. million in investment—75% of it via the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA. Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)?

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Nevertheless, Dr Margaret Chan, then the Director of the Communicable Diseases Section of the WHO, stated "For the first time in human history, we have the ability to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives. The figure above is an attempt to summarise the issues connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Top announcements from AWS worldwide public sector partners at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

When AWS Partners voiced their interest in collaborating with AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) to better support public sector customers, AWS ProServe Ready was our response to that request. My favorite part of re:Invent , this year and every year, is the opportunity it provides to hear directly from AWS Partners and customers.