
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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SEPTEMBER QUARTERLY INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATOR WORKSHOP

Advancing Equity in the Travel, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation Sectors

2023 Energy Cybersecurity Resources For Governors’ Advisors

How Healthy Conflict Can Strengthen Nation
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 will look at the problems of polarization, elevate the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and feature 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.
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Center for Best Practices Library
Cyber Liability Insurance for States
Memo on State Cybersecurity Response Plans
Memo on State Cybersecurity Budgets
Using Data and Evaluation in Policy Development, Implementation and Monitoring: Building Successful Policies to Reduce Prescription Opioid Misuse
State Strategies to Reduce Childhood Hunger
Energy Learning Network Webinar: Updates & Insights on State Energy Policy Developments
Opening Workshop on Policy Academy on Power Sector Modernization
Cross State Convening: Leveraging Workforce Investment Strategies to Improve the Early Care and Education Workforce
Experts Roundtable on State Resiliency Assessment and Planning
Initiative for Resiliency in Energy through Vehicles Policy Workshop
Promoting Place-Based Strategies to Address Poverty

Building a High-Performing State Workforce Board
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