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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State Considerations for the 42 CFR Part 8 Rule
Healing Divides Through Volunteerism and Service
Briefing on State Pardon and Commutation Processes
Governors Continue Exploring Innovative Methods to Scale Youth Apprenticeship
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.
Program Areas
Center for Best Practices Library
2020 Energy Outlook: Updates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration
State Strategies for Scaling Work-Based Learning
Planning for State Transportation Revenue in a Coming Era of Electric Vehicles
2019 Novel Coronavirus: Public Health Legal Preparedness
Resources for Tracking the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Assessing State Authorities
How Extreme Weather Trends Impact Transportation Networks
Infrastructure Stakeholder Summit III: Enhancing Efficiency – Eliminating Red Tape and Integrating Smart Technology
Facilitating Heating Sector Transformation in Rhode Island
Parents and Children Thriving Together: A Framework for Two-Generation Policy and System Reform
The Governor’s Guide to Public Health Preparedness
New Jersey Retreat on Advancing Vehicle-to-Grid Technologies
STRONGER TOGETHER: State and Local Cybersecurity Collaboration
PAST NGA CHAIRS INITIATIVES
- 2022-2023
Gov. Phil Murphy’s Initiative
Strengthening Youth Mental Health - 2021-2022
Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s Initiative
K-12 Computer Science Education - 2019-2020
Gov. Larry Hogan’s Initiative
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