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
How Governors Scale High-Quality Youth Apprenticeship
GridEx V State After-Action Workshop
State Strategies to Improve Energy Resilience through Distributed Technologies
Growing outdoor recreation helps our kids and our economies
Education Topic Papers a Governor’s Dual Enrollment Framework for Success
State Energy Toolkit
STATE ENERGY TOOLKIT
Information Sharing 101: Protecting Public Health Data
New Mexico Grid Modernization Retreat
Outdoor Recreation Webinar on Economy Industry Data
NGA Selects 5 States to Address Managed Care as a Tool to Drive Health System Change
Governors Taking Action by Leading by Example
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
Infrastructure: Foundation for Success - View all…