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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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Let’s Get Ready! To Define Success

Let’s Get Ready! To Define Success

After a fireside chat on preparing students of all ages for workforce success, and a panel discussion featuring insights from Dr. Richard V. Reeves and Dr. Oon Seng Tan, the ...
Cultivating Consensus in Human Services

Cultivating Consensus in Human Services

It's critical for Governors and human services leaders to navigate complex issues, especially when political tension feels high. In some scenarios, successful implementation can rely more on framing and relationship ...
Governors’ Perspectives on Addressing Child Care Needs: Supply and Demand Trends to Watch

Governors’ Perspectives on Addressing Child Care Needs: Supply and Demand Trends to Watch

Opportunities abound for state-led solutions, and Governors continue to take up the mantle by continuing to prioritize increasing the availability of early care and education. (Download) Ten years ago, Governors’ ...

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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Center for Best Practices Library

Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex: 2019 Update for Governors

Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex: 2019 Update for Governors

This guide, produced by the National Governors Association's (NGA) Energy, Infrastructure & Environment team, outlines successes and challenges faced by ...

Smart & Safe: State Strategies for Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Electric Sector

This paper recommends seven actions for governors to consider in order to protect electricity infrastructure and personally identifiable information. (Download) ...
Smart & Safe: State Strategies for Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Electric Sector

Smart & Safe: State Strategies for Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Electric Sector

This white paper outlines seven actions governors can take in order to protect electricity infrastructure and personally identifiable information from ...

Addressing the Infectious Disease Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic

Two NGA Health publications present insights from this work that can inform other governors’ efforts to prevent infectious disease outbreaks ...

Federal Facilities Task Force 2019 Spring Meeting on Nuclear Weapons Waste Cleanup

Augusta, GA | May 21 – 22, 2019 The National Governors Association leads the Federal Facilities Task Force, a group ...

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.

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 ...

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