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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Northeast Regional Project Delivery Workshop
Membership Monthly – April 2024
Governors Prioritize Behavioral Health in 2024 State of the State Addresses
Congressional Briefing on Environmental Protection
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.
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Center for Best Practices Library
Cybersecurity Newsletters 2018-2021
Financing an Equitable and High-Quality System: Investing in Early Learning
State Public Safety and Autonomous Vehicle Technology
State Strategies to Reduce Highway and Traffic Fatalities and Injuries: A Road Map for States
Parents and Children Thriving Together: The Role of State Agencies in Crafting a Statewide Two-Generation Strategy
Retreat on Energy Resilience Coordination and Planning in Oregon and Washington
Addressing Housing Instability Through Systems Alignment and Coordination
GridEx IV State After-Action Workshop
Work-Based Learning Policy Academy Cross-State Meeting
Governors’ Recommendations for Federal Action to End the Nation’s Opioid Crisis
Demystifying the Use of Public Private Partnerships in the Water Sector and Key Actions Governors Can Take to Enable their Use
States Continue Advancing Strategies to Scale Work-Based Learning
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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
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