
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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At Disagree Better Event, National Security Experts Warn of the Dangers of Toxic Polarization

State and Territory Leaders Meet for the Next Generation of the Healthcare Workforce Summit

Bridging Partisan Divides by Repairing American Institutions

Governors Recognize Suicide Prevention Month
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
NGA Center Influenza Resources
Small Business Initiatives for Health Coverage and Disease Prevention

Arts & the Economy: Using Arts and Culture to Stimulate State Economic Development

Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Update: States Increase Eligibility for Children’s Health in 2007

Promoting Film and Media to Enhance State Economic Development

State Efforts to Expand Broadband Access

State Efforts to Promote Reading and Literary Activities in Communities

Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Update 2005: States Make Modest Expansions to Health Care Coverage

MCH Update: States Protect Health Care Coverage During Recent Fiscal Downturn

MCH Update 2002: State Health Coverage for Low-Income Pregnant Women, Children, and Parents

MCH Update 2001: Trends in State Health Insurance Coverage of Pregnant Women, Children, and Parents

Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Update: States Have Expanded Eligibility and Increased Access to Health Care for Pregnant Women and Children
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