NGA Center for Best Practices

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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State of the State – 2025

State of the State – 2025

Governors of America's Commonwealths, States and Territories are outlining their priorities for 2025. To showcase their leadership and priorities for the year ahead, the National Governors Association is collecting their ...
Service-to-Career Pathways Advisory Board

Service-to-Career Pathways Advisory Board

As Governors implement their workforce development policy agendas in the face of labor shortages in nearly every sector of the economy, state and national service programs offer a promising strategy ...
Empowering Progress: Harnessing Skills-Based Strategies to Drive Public Sector Excellence

Empowering Progress: Harnessing Skills-Based Strategies to Drive Public Sector Excellence

The public sector plays a key role in advancing skills-based strategies, driven by gubernatorial leadership. Whether in the early stages or more advanced in their adoption of skills-based policies and ...

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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Outdoor Recreation Webinar on Economy Industry Data

Outdoor Recreation Webinar on Economy Industry Data

The outdoor recreation industry contributes $427.2 billion to US GDP annually and its share is continuing to grow. Individually, for ...

NGA Selects 5 States to Address Managed Care as a Tool to Drive Health System Change

The National Governors Association (NGA) competitively selected five states — Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Wisconsin — to ...
Governors Taking Action by Leading by Example

Governors Taking Action by Leading by Example

Governors have the unique ability to reduce energy consumption in state-owned facilities through aggressive lead-by-example (LBE) targets. Energy use at ...

Eighteenth Annual Intergovernmental Meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy on Nuclear Weapons Waste Cleanup

Nashville, TN | November 19-21, 2019 The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the 18th annual ...

New Advisor Bootcamp and Annual Water Policy Institute

The 2019 Water Policy Institute featured innovative policies and approaches along with cross-cutting issues such as health challenges with PFAs ...

Child Health, Wellbeing and Safety in Schools Requires All of Us

Originally published in FoxNews.com. By Chris Sununu and Laura Kelly As students streamed back into classrooms this fall, parents, educators, ...
Webinar: Ebola and Beyond: Legal Preparedness for Outbreaks

Webinar: Ebola and Beyond: Legal Preparedness for Outbreaks

Download the webinar here. Description: NGA is excited to announce the launch of a webinar series on Legal Preparedness for ...

States are meeting the challenge of infrastructure. Is Washington listening?

Originally published in the Washington Times. By Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan - - Tuesday, November 19, 2019 ANALYSIS/OPINION: The United ...
Integrating and Advancing State Prenatal to 3 Policies

Integrating and Advancing State Prenatal to 3 Policies

November 13-15, 2019 | Charleston, SC The NGA Early Care and Education and Human Services Teams hosted six states as ...
RURAL PROSPERITY THROUGH THE ARTS & CREATIVE SECTOR

RURAL PROSPERITY THROUGH THE ARTS & CREATIVE SECTOR

Rural America has a robust cultural history that has enriched the nation and its people. Rural America is also beset ...
VIRTUAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

VIRTUAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

States have a unique role in public health emergency management. They develop policies and authorities that govern strategy and activities ...

NGA Selects 6 States to Address the Health Care Workforce Needs of a Modern Delivery System

The National Governors Association (NGA) competitively selected six states -- Connecticut, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Oklahoma -- ...

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