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
Improving Human Services Programs and Outcomes Through Shared Data
Medicaid High-Need, High-Cost Programs: Promising Practices for Evaluation Metrics
The Potential Role for Microgrids During Electric Power Outages Webinar
Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) Webinar #2
Health Investments That Pay Off: A Comprehensive Approach to Tobacco Control
The Future of Medicaid Transformation: A Practical Guide for States
Aligning Energy Efficiency and Demand Response to Lower Peak Electricity Demand, Reduce Costs and Address Reliability Concerns
Finding Solutions to the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Road Map for States
Starting a C-PACE Program: What You Need to Know
The Role of Geographic Information Systems in State Energy Assurance Planning and Response
Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex: 2015 Update for Governors
Small Business and Cybersecurity
PAST NGA CHAIRS INITIATIVES
- 2022-2023
Gov. Phil Murphy’s Initiative
Strengthening Youth Mental Health - 2021-2022
Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s Initiative
K-12 Computer Science Education - 2019-2020
Gov. Larry Hogan’s Initiative
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