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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Congressional Briefing on Building Readiness and Strengthening Resiliency to Combat Disasters and Emerging Threats
Plans of Safe Care: Bridging the Gap for Families Affected by Substance Use Disorder
NGA Convenes Six States to Explore Best Practices to Advance Disability Inclusive Workforce Policy
Governor McKee Hosts Statewide Event to Address Chronic Absenteeism
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.
Program Areas
Center for Best Practices Library
2017 Seminar for New Governors’ Energy Advisors and Annual Governors’ Advisors’ Energy Policy Institute
Mississippi Retreat on Reducing Energy Use in State Buildings
Learning Lab on Strategies to Reduce Childhood Hunger
Governors Education Symposium
Washington State Retreat on Enhancing Lead-by-Example Efforts
Advancing the Energy-Water Nexus: How Governors Can Bridge Their Conservation Goals
Setting Site-Specific Priorities in the Federal Budget Process for Cleanup of Nuclear Weapons Waste
Oregon Retreat on Prioritizing and Valuing Local Energy Resilience
Setting Site-Specific Priorities in the Federal Budget Process for Cleanup of Nuclear Weapons Waste: Opportunities for State Engagement
Work-Based Learning Policy Academy TA Webinar Series
Human Capital Spring Learning Lab
Improving Emergency Communications Through Governance
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