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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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Governors Prioritizing Postsecondary Strategies: Multiple Pathways Highlighted in 2025 State and Territory Addresses
Governors across the country made clear that postsecondary education remains central to their policy agendas in their 2025 State and Territory addresses—including State of the State, Inaugural, and Budget speeches ...
Membership Monthly – April 2025
Updates from the NGA Membership Team for April 2025. For more about the programs below and a list of upcoming events please email NGA at: membership@nga.org. ABOVE: Virginia Governor Glenn ...
Workforce Investments for A Robust Health Ecosystem
To help commemorate National Public Health Week 2025, this publication is part of an NGA series that explores policies, programs and considerations to improve population health. Addressing health needs through ...
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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Institute for State Criminal Justice and Public Safety Executives
NGA hosted 34 states in Seattle to discuss issues around criminal justice and public safety at the 2019 Institute for ...
Cyber Threats are a Collective Danger. States and Industry Must Respond Collectively.
By John Bel Edwards, Asa Hutchinson and Thomas Kennedy You are probably reading this on an internet-connected device. If you ...
National Summit on State Cybersecurity
Over the course of two days, participants engaged in a series of interactive sessions and breakouts to discuss the newest ...
Bootcamp for Governors’ New Energy Policy Advisors
Energy, Infrastructure & Environment hosted a bootcamp on May 9 and 10 for Governors' New Energy Policy Advisors ...
Impaired Driving Convening
The NGA Solutions: Center for Best Practices’ Impaired Driving Convening brought together 13 states to discuss strategies to address transportation ...
North/Central Regional Transportation Electrification Workshop
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the North/Central Regional Transportation Electrification Workshop in Kansas City, ...
State Strategies for Averting Early Deaths
Death by suicide is a complex individual, relational and public health problem. The incidence of such deaths over the past ...
Policy Update: State Policy Support for Nuclear Generation
This policy scan summarizes recent state policy actions to support nuclear generation, recognizing the ability of nuclearpower to reliably meet ...
Water 101: Webinar for New Advisers
The webinar covers the types of policy assistance that NGA offers, gives new advisers some insights into their jobs from ...
Governor’s Guide to Homeland Security (An Update)
The Homeland Security & Public Safety Division has assembled best practices for governors and their homeland security policy staff in ...
Washington Leaders Must Heed the Signs—Infrastructure Investment is Overdue
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH By Scott D. Pattison In recent weeks, Americans have watched in horror and ...
New Governors Energy Policy Advisers Webinar (Part 2)
NGA’s Energy, Infrastructure & Environment (EIE) Division hosted a series of events in early 2019 for new energy advisers. This ...
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