For years Rosanne has led efforts to increase the availability of affordable housing, but Community Solutions has found it can be even more effective by helping communities change the way they organize the resources that touch the lives of vulnerable people.

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Customers of this new offering will use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to organize their cloud resources.

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The idea made a lot of sense given Google's search expertise, its incredible stash of technology resources and its stated mission to organize the world's information.

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Louisiana's emergency operations plan called for the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development to appoint a coordinator to organize and coordinate transportation services, maintain information about resources and allocate those resources to the highest-priority missions, according to documents obtained by CNN.

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Sometimes these are solo efforts, but often civic coders collaborate, either online through resources like GitHub or in person at events called "hackathons" where coders self-organize into teams and compete to build software over the course of a day or a weekend.

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