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NGA Center for Best Practices teams develop innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. The NGA Center is the only research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s Governors.
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Governors Prioritizing Postsecondary Strategies: Multiple Pathways Highlighted in 2025 State and Territory Addresses
Governors across the country made clear that postsecondary education remains central to their policy agendas in their 2025 State and Territory addresses—including State of the State, Inaugural, and Budget speeches ...
Membership Monthly – April 2025
Updates from the NGA Membership Team for April 2025. For more about the programs below and a list of upcoming events please email NGA at: membership@nga.org. ABOVE: Virginia Governor Glenn ...
Workforce Investments for A Robust Health Ecosystem
To help commemorate National Public Health Week 2025, this publication is part of an NGA series that explores policies, programs and considerations to improve population health. Addressing health needs through ...
Let’s Get Ready
All Americans should have access to education that prepares them for success in life. As the world changes and technology evolves, ensuring all students graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary for success is increasingly critical for our nation’s economic competitiveness.
As Governors, we lead states facing economic opportunities but also challenges, shortages in workforce, skills mismatch, and widening opportunity gaps that limit true economic mobility for Americans. We must take these indicators as a call to action.
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Governors Work Together on Bipartisan Education Solutions
Governors aren’t focused on whether ideas are red or blue; we’re focused on finding policy solutions that work. Colorado Governor ...
Let’s Get Ready to Innovate
The Let’s Get Ready! initiative examines a different facet of education at each convening, and the Las Vegas gathering focused ...
Governor Youngkin, State Housing Advisors Shift the Conversation on Housing
“We know we have a housing accessibility and affordability crisis across America.” Addressing the 2024 NGA Housing Policy Advisors Institute, ...
Key Takeaways from Action Lab on Strategic Financing for a Comprehensive Substance Use Disorder Continuum of Care
States have taken important steps forward to build systems that address SUD and the overdose epidemic. (Read/Download) Introduction Aligning and ...
Let’s Get Students Ready for Success
Ensuring all American high school students graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed following graduation is at the ...
Governors Prioritizing Financial Literacy
The importance of financial literacy is clear. It allows people to make informed decisions related to budgeting, saving, borrowing and ...
Let’s Get Ready for AI in Education
As part of the Let’s Get Ready! Educating All Americans for Success initiative, NGA Chair Colorado Governor Jared Polis is ...
SUN Bucks Basics for Governors: A Summer EBT Program Primer
The Summer EBT program could significantly impact childhood food insecurity during the critical summer months when food insecurity often peaks ...
Understanding Behavioral Health Licensure Compacts: Insights for Governors and Other State Leaders
Given ongoing health workforce shortages, many states have adopted licensure compacts into statute over the past several years. Governors and ...
Promising Practices for State and Territory Disability Data Collection and Usage
This brief outlines promising practices that states and territories can implement to collect disability data to advance health equity. A ...
2024 State Experts Roundtable on Protecting Energy Infrastructure from Physical Attacks
On September 12, 2024, the National Governors Association (NGA), in partnership with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), ...
Maine – Innovative Travel, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation Case Study
The below case study was developed through a NGA partnership with Oregon State University’s Center for the Outdoor Recreation Economy ...
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