
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.
Latest

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.
Program Areas
Center for Best Practices Library
Promising Practices in Boosting School Leadership Capacity: Principal Academies
State Technology & Policy Questions Around Highly Autonomous Vehicles
Getting the Right Information to the Right Health Care Providers at the Right Time: A Road Map for States to Improve Health Information Flow Between Providers
Preparing States for Extreme Electrical Power Grid Outages
Accelerating Opportunity for Veterans: A Governor’s Blueprint for Pathways to Veterans’ Civilian Licensing and Certification

Opportunities for Governors to Align Electricity Markets with State Energy Goals
A Review of State Computer Crime Law

State Strategies to Scale Quality Work-Based Learning
Opportunities for Energy Efficiency to Help States Reduce Costs and Achieve Co-Benefits Under the Clean Power Plan
Opportunities for States to Pursue Multistate Compliance Options under the Clean Power Plan
Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity and Public Safety
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…