LivingLink, an open‑source FHIR‑enabled donor navigation platform, won the $1 million grand prize for its five‑module approach to donor readiness, financial counseling, mentoring, evaluation tracking and post‑donation follow‑up.

Experts and coauthors urged Allegheny County to consolidate siloed property data, hire a small technical team, and use open-source automated valuation methods to reduce errors, increase transparency, and lower long-term costs compared with proprietary vendor models.

The district's IT lead reported large vendor price increases — including a nearly $40,000 VMware licensing cost — and outlined a summer migration to open-source Proxmox to control future expenses; Chromebook replacement prices had risen from roughly $300 to over $400 per device without earlier procurement.

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