NGA Center for Best Practices
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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Retreat on Improving Energy Resilience in the State of Oregon
December 11 – 12 | Salem, OR The state of Oregon, in partnership with the National Governors Association Center for ...
EIA Training Natural Gas Storage Dashboard and Strategic Electricity Initiative
This is a two-part webinar featuring a training from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on the newly launched Natural ...
Maryland Resilience Retreat
November 29 -28 | Reisterstown, MD The State of Maryland, the Maryland Emergency Management Agency and the Governor’s Office of ...
Idaho Energy Resilience Retreat
November 15 - 16 | Boise, ID The state of Idaho, in partnership with the National Governors Association Center for ...
Northeast Regional Transportation Electrification Workshop
November 29 - 30 | Hartford, CT The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the Northeast ...
Seventeenth Annual Intergovernmental Meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy
November 14 – 16, 2018 | New Orleans, Louisiana The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted ...
Yahoo Op-Ed: America’s Governors are Taking the Lead in Bringing Jobs to Their States
Amid a time of transition, the National Governors Association (NGA) remains dedicated to helping governors achieve the goals with which ...
Governors Helping Governors
NGA CEO Scott D. Pattison talks welcoming incoming governors during the Seminar for New Governors, which took place this past ...
NGA/U.S. DOT Webinar on the Build America Bureau’s New Rural Projects Initiative
The webinar, hosted in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), introduced the U.S. DOT’s Build America Bureau and ...
Prenatal to Age Three Policies
The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices Education, Health, and Homeland Security & Public Safety divisions held a ...
Midterm Elections: Governors Represent the Best of Bipartisan Progress Across America
NGA executive director and CEO Scott Pattison on the 2018 midterm elections, governors and bipartisanship ...
State Level Policies to Promote Water Utility Consolidation
Gubernatorial leadership in Kentucky helped reduce the number of water utilities in the state from 2,178 in 1974 to 398 ...
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