Word: ashe
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...this center in the blast-zone heart of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument nicely avoids both government-issue banality and hokey log-cabin regionalism. Spencer Associates, based in Palo Alto, California, has created a spectacular glass-covered grand hall, from which one can gawk at acres of ash, lava beds, charred cedar stumps and, eight miles away, the still active volcano...
Representatives from the chosen programs convened in Washington last Wednesday for an awards ceremony, sponsored by the KSG’s Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Council for Excellence in Government, a private organization...
Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute, did not return repeated requests for comment this week. But in a statement last week, Rizvi called the winning initiatives—culled from an initial applicant pool of over 1,000—“ground-breaking efforts” that “[take] a creative approach to a significant problem” in bureaucracy and administration...
Another winner of the Ash Center’s awards was the Allegheny County State Forensic Program in Pennsylvania, a social agency that caters to inmates with behavioral health diagnoses who are nearing the end of their prison terms. The program works to integrate inmates back into society during the 90 days following their release...
...third recipient of the Ash Institute’s awards were the Iowa Charter Agencies, a collection of six state departments that operate under charters that hold them financially accountable while exempting them from many bureaucratic restrictions...