DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 12, 2024

Our team comprises of book lovers who read books from all genres. This year, we decided to hold a Secret Santa book exchange and it was a lot of fun sending books to each other. As we begin 2024, we realized that we needed a list of must-read books and decided to ask for your recommendations. Easy and quick and satisfying.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Collaboration is at the heart of agile methodology for good reason: It engages all the talents on the team and generates comprehensive solutions. We have all these platforms — Teams and Zoom — that we use for talking about projects and due dates. But there should be additional opportunities to build team culture and dynamics.”.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 31, 2022

Whether you’re in person or remote, you need the ability to see and hear your coworkers clearly. Teams must be connected to high-speed internet in order to use videoconferencing and other digital tools so they can engage as actively online as they can in person. Be Aware of Your Body Language. Are your brows furrowed?

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GovLoop

AUGUST 11, 2022

Each of us knows to closely guard our Social Security numbers, credit card accounts, fingerprints, phone numbers, health records and other personal information. Tolson said that in the past, many organizations split data management duties between data teams and other departments and employees. Not comforting, is it? Management.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Why the Sammies matter The Sammies, the premier recognition program known as “the Oscars of government,” honor federal employees who improve our lives for the better and show how our government benefits society. The Partnership for Public Service hosted the 22 nd annual Samuel J. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.,

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2023

Where to Start with Microsoft Teams Apps in Gov Clouds Customers in our Office 365 government clouds, GCC, GCCH, and DoD, are continuing to evolve how they do business in the hybrid workplace. Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes Here are a few ways that you can stay on top of the Office 365 updates in your organization.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We develop proposals that demonstrate what is going on and how we can help, usually within a minimal character count within an online portal that was not meant for grant applications. And many of us have great ideas on how to make the grant world a better place. We juggle so many deadlines and responsibilities. No stress there.)

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

You’ve seen our team share information from MyFedTrainer.com, podcasts on the topic from Fundraising HayDay, and our own team talk about and present on “How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap,” so we’re excited to bring you this guest post today with some tactical tips to help with your upcoming grant report.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 23, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2022 These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments are now rolling out to our customers in US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Join this session to hear how government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and aerospace and satellite organizations are using the cloud to improve the lives of their citizens, students, patients, and more. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. Louis University.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2023

After this initial release, the Government Transformation Team (GTT) at AWS enlisted the help of the UK’s Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC), LevelAccess, and an internal AWS accessibility team to conduct accessibility audits to help our product team identify possible accessibility opportunities within the application.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2020

While we can’t direct you to an easy solution to help your nonprofit survive these challenging times, below are several resources—including links to funding opportunities and foundation news—related to COVID-19 and the health, social, and economic challenges it has unleashed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

So how can public sector organizations help address this skills gap? To discuss this, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently hosted a webinar, Rethink how to hire and retain top performing talent , which assembled a panel of government officials and workforce planning experts. Foster a culture of skills training.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 25, 2022

Trust and Hold Accountable. When you have a team that’s fully bought into the mission of what we’re trying to achieve, there’s a collective push to make sure we’re hitting on all cylinders, wherever we’re working,” Richards said. Donovan Richards Jr. He represents 2.4 Here are his tips for managing hybrid employees.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 30, 2023

This is a guest post by Louisa Barker, research manager in the European Government Insights team at IDC, and Joe Dignan, the European head of government insights at IDC. For example, in the Balearic Islands tourism accounts for more than 44.2% Islands can be testbeds for sustainable innovation that can help address these needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In this blog post, learn how to deploy and run Moodle using serverless containers technology on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Moodle is a popular open source learning management system (LMS). Many education institutions adapted to COVID-19 in-person restrictions and shifted from traditional face-to-face learning to online learning.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s never been easier to engage with specialist AI/ML companies to access a mass of talent and expertise who can either build you a bespoke model or provide a SaaS-like platform to make sense of and draw insight from your own or external data. Using emerging technologies to enhance defence. In 2020, countries globally spent $1.9

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 5, 2024

Also, the blog discussed how Microsoft Copilot for Security (Security Copilot) can help DIB organizations meet these requirements by identifying, reporting, and correcting system flaws more efficiently and effectively. One might ask why Access Control holds the prominent first spot in the NIST 800-171 publication.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, as AI technologies evolve, there’s been a growing curiosity and an increasing amount of uncertainty about if and how it can change the way people engage in communities. Here are 5 advantages of using AI in your community engagement strategies: 1. Speed and Efficiency​ 2. Consistent Moderation​ 3. 24/7 Availability​ 4.

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Bang the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For those of you preparing for local elections, now is the time to kick off your community advocacy program to ensure you access the necessary funds and meet the growing needs of your community. . So here are the top 6 agenda items to help you focus time and energy on what matters in 2022. Consult early on policy decisions.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This episode debunks the myths around how to recognize community development loans at the time of loan origination and how to avoid expensive loan mining activities at the tail end of your compliance processes. The key to engaging commercial loan officers is to conduct community development loan training.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MARCH 6, 2021

Like the recent session in which we were spruiking the rising influence of artificial intelligence and the likely impact on public services and citizen engagement of augment reality only to be told that, in one regional government office, the vast majority of the team didn’t have ‘smart’ phones or wifi enabled laptops. And of course I have.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Where to Start with Microsoft Teams Apps in Gov Clouds Customers in our Office 365 government clouds, GCC, GCCH, and DoD, are continuing to evolve how they do business in the hybrid workplace. Microsoft 365 Government Community Call Join Jay Leask and other members of the Government Community live on LinkedIn!

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Planning for mission success with Microsoft 365 Adoption: A Guide for IT Admins As an IT admin in the public sector, you know how important it is to deliver secure, compliant, and efficient solutions for your organization. For more general information uncheck these boxes under “Cloud Instance”.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 22, 2023

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2023 These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments are now rolling out to customers in the US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 20, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights How Microsoft 365 helps public sector organizations embrace generational diversity Empowering your workforce with modern productivity, collaboration, and security tools can help your agency embrace generational diversity and across four critical areas: recruitment, retention, productivity, and learning.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Announcing New Teams Developer Portal for GCC. Teams Developer Portal for GCC will allow developers to Configure, distribute, and manage Microsoft Teams apps. Formerly App Studio, the Developer Portal can help wherever you are in your Microsoft Teams app development journey. Newsworthy Highlights.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Microsoft Federal's FedMake program delivers hackathon style events, exclusively for Federal (Civilian / DoD / Intel) organizations, where conditions are created, and facilitated, by Microsoft experts, for cross-organization teams to leverage Microsoft expertise and develop solutions that achieve their mission. Release News. Exchange Online.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Where to Start with Microsoft Teams Apps in Gov Clouds Customers in our Office 365 government clouds, GCC, GCCH, and DoD, are continuing to evolve how they do business in the hybrid workplace. This demand is especially apparent in the US government space, where these advancements have a direct impact on national security.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

How to Prepare a Project Budget for a Grant Proposal 1. Create a template The first step in the budgeting process is to set up your budget template. In the funding opportunity announcement, a funder will either include a budget template or they will describe what your proposal budget should look like, including any required line items.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

Microsoft Teams Premium in GCC Webinar July 19 10:00 AM PST |1 PM EST The Microsoft Teams Product Group is excited to introduce Teams Premium for Government Community Cloud (GCC). On Wednesday, July 19th 10:00 AM PST |1 PM EST, Teams engineers will walk you through the details of the new Teams Premium SKU.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And do we need more education within teams? How often have you created a password including the necessary nine characters, one capital letter, one lowercase letter and one number… and then forgotten it? This can be frustrating when all you want to do is check your recycling collection dates, for example.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 22, 2022

Bots and Message Extensions now available in Microsoft Teams GCC High. To bring full functionality of Microsoft Teams into GCC High, we are pleased to announce the availability of Bots and Message Extensions in Teams for GCC High. How to make meetings more accessible and inclusive with Microsoft Teams.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

But these are more than just bacteria; this collection of fungi and viruses—known as the microbiome—may hold the key to better health. AMILI is a healthcare technology (HealthTech) company based in Singapore that seeks to advance precision medicine and personalized health and nutrition by harnessing the potential of the microbiome.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Then, organizations must identify relevant datasets that indicate how well services are performing. The datasets found within the systems used to manage and deliver services hold the keys to service improvements. These key performance indicators (KPIs) establish the basis for measuring operational efficiency.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 30, 2023

We’ve written several posts over the years about how to write grants. But one thing we haven’t done is write about how to become a grant writer. With the scenarios above, your core job responsibilities will have nothing to do with grant writing or seeking grant funding. Three Common Paths to Becoming a Grant Writer 1.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s a potentially huge blindspot for curtailing emissions, and the public sector needs to hold the tech industry more accountable for emissions produced by the infrastructure used to deploy software. However, when we look at how energy in data centres is consumed, it becomes clear that that impact is significant.

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