NGA Center for Best Practices
The NGA Center for Best Practices teams and divisions develop innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. The center is the only research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s Governors.
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Membership Monthly – March 2024
New State Models Emerging for Fostering Entrepreneurship
Weaving State & Federal Manufacturing Support Strategies through Regional Consortia
NGA Convenes Network of Governors’ Infrastructure Implementation Coordinators
Disagree Better
Americans need to disagree better. And by that we don’t mean that we need to be nicer to each other, although that’s helpful. We need to learn to disagree in a way that allows us to find solutions and solve problems instead of endlessly bickering.
The “exhausted majority” of Americans want this, and the science is clear about interventions that reduce polarization. As doers and builders, Governors are in a unique position to model what healthy conflict looks like.
Governor Spencer Cox’s Disagree Better NGA Chair’s initiative looks at the problems of polarization, elevates the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and features Governors showing what disagreeing better looks like. Through public debates, service projects, public service announcements and a variety of other tactics, Americans will see a more positive and optimistic way of working through our problems.
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Center for Best Practices Library
New State Models Emerging for Fostering Entrepreneurship
Weaving State & Federal Manufacturing Support Strategies through Regional Consortia
NGA Convenes Network of Governors’ Infrastructure Implementation Coordinators
State Education Trends for 2024
First Spouses Convene at 2024 NGA Winter Meeting
State Strategies To Address The Impact Of Covid-19 On Maternal And Child Populations: Sustaining Equitable Community Supports
State of the State – 2024
Governors Implement: On The Road To Infrastructure In West Virginia
Winter Workforce Policy Institute Highlights the Importance of Workforce Planning and Innovation
Building and Empowering Impactful Children’s Cabinets
Child Care A Focus For Governors at the 2024 NGA Winter Meeting
State Strategies To Mitigate The Impact Of Housing Instability On Child Welfare Involvement
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