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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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
Entrepreneurship in States: Fostering a Startup-Friendly Economy
Public Health Preparedness and Response Workshop for State and Territorial Gubernatorial and Legislative Leaders
State Summit on Opportunity Zones
Building Success: Strategies for Effectively Advancing Your Governor’s Education Priorities
Regional Workshops on Expanding Access to Medication Assisted Treatment for Justice-Involved Populations
The User Pays? A Potential Solution to the Transportation Funding Crisis
Connecting State Financing Policy to Institutional Innovation
Transportation Technology Workshop
Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex: 2019 Update for Governors
Smart & Safe: State Strategies for Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Electric Sector
Smart & Safe: State Strategies for Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Electric Sector
Addressing the Infectious Disease Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic
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