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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Navigating Benefit Cliffs: States and Territories Supporting Economic Mobility
In June 2024, the National Governors Association Children and Families team hosted the monthly Human Services Policy Advisors Institute Call on mitigating benefit cliffs and supporting upward economic mobility. Background ...
Disagree Better: Looking Forward
“In our country today, we’ve gotten really, really good at tearing things down. Building institutions is hard work; tearing them down is easy. We need some architects. We need more ...
First Spouses Convene at Summer Meeting, Join Governor Youngkin in Conversation on Efforts to Raise Awareness about Fentanyl Prevention
During the 2024 NGA Summer Meeting, held in Salt Lake City, Utah First Lady Abby Cox held a meeting with the nation’s First Spouses to focus on efforts Virginia First ...
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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Setting Site-Specific Priorities in the Federal Budget Process for Cleanup of Nuclear Weapons Waste
Opportunities for State Engagement Sufficient federal funding to clean up the U.S. nuclear weapons complex is a priority for states ...
Oregon Retreat on Prioritizing and Valuing Local Energy Resilience
May 5, 2017 | Newport, OR Oregon, in partnership with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center), ...
Setting Site-Specific Priorities in the Federal Budget Process for Cleanup of Nuclear Weapons Waste: Opportunities for State Engagement
This issue brief focuses on the opportunities for state engagement at each stage of the budget process and suggests how ...
Work-Based Learning Policy Academy TA Webinar Series
This webinar series, which ran from Jan 2016 to April 2017 looked at the following work-based learn topics: Measurement, Enhancement, ...
Human Capital Spring Learning Lab
April 24-25, 2017 | San Diego, CA Meeting Objectives Deepen understanding of high-leverage strategies to improve coherence of programs and ...
Improving Emergency Communications Through Governance
The most critical element to ensuring interoperability of emergency communications tools and a highly functioning emergency communications ecosystem is a ...
Integrating Population Health into State-Wide System Transformation: A Road Map for States
States are working to improve health, improve quality of care and reduce costs through multiple initiatives, including State Innovation Model ...
Workshop on the Future of Nuclear Power
March 30-31, 2017 | Arlington, VA The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) held a workshop on ...
Parents and Children Thriving Together: Two-Generation State Policy Network Kickoff Meeting
March 20-22, 2017 | Denver, Colorado The National Governors Association for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Center for Law ...
Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity 101: Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
Right now, cyber criminals and foreign nations are probing state systems for vulnerabilities. Malicious actors exploit errors in software code ...
Q&A: Phishing
What is Phishing? Phishing refers to the criminal practice of using fraudulent emails to trick unsuspecting victims intodisclosing sensitive information ...
Q&A: Internet-of-Things
What is the Internet-of-Things? The Internet-of-Things (IoT) describes how commercial industries are including Internet connectivity in a wide range of ...
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