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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Reimagining Rural Maternal and Child Health
Rural Health Transformation Program Insights (Download) Maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes continue to raise national concern despite ongoing targeted initiatives, community-based interventions, and executive measures aimed at improving population ...
Building Degree Apprenticeships in Louisiana: A State-Led Approach to Strengthening the Teacher Pipeline
Louisiana’s experience, which has been built on strong pilots that are maturing into a statewide model, offer a few clear takeaways for governors looking to launch similar efforts. (Download) Why ...
Building Degree Apprenticeships in North Carolina: A State-Led Approach to Expanding Earn-and-Learn Pathways
Structurally aligning apprenticeship offices and higher education agencies can significantly reduce friction in program development and help ensure that competencies, curriculum and employer needs are built together cohesively from the ...
Reigniting the American Dream
Every American should have the opportunity to build a life of purpose, to strengthen their community, and to help shape a nation defined not only by prosperity, but by potential realized. Yet across our very diverse states, too many people have lost faith in this opportunity. They’ve faced too many obstacles, encountered too many closed doors, and given up the hope of a brighter future. We can do better.
Reigniting the American Dream is more than an initiative. It’s an invitation for every U.S. governor to take action.
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Parents and Children Thriving Together: A Framework for Two-Generation Policy and System Reform
This brief explores lessons learned from the PACTT Network and provides a framework to help guide state leaders seeking to ...
New Jersey Retreat on Advancing Vehicle-to-Grid Technologies
January 22, 2020 | Trenton, NJ - Thomas Edison State University The objective of the retreat was to explore strategies ...
Infrastructure Innovations
Gov. Hogan’s Chair’s Initiative, Infrastructure: Foundation for Success, built on state efforts to meet the infrastructure needs of the 21st ...
STRONGER TOGETHER: State and Local Cybersecurity Collaboration
(View/Download) Executive Summary With a dramatic uptick in ransomware attacks across the country, governors, state chief information officers (CIOs) and ...
How Governors Scale High-Quality Youth Apprenticeship
(View/Download) Executive Summary The outlook for high school graduates who have no postsecondary or industry-recognized credentials can appear bleak. Today, ...
GridEx V State After-Action Workshop
Washington, D.C. | January 14-15, 2020 Governors can play a critical role during a widespread electrical grid outage. The goal ...
State Strategies to Improve Energy Resilience through Distributed Technologies
Energy systems face increasing pressure from natural hazards, physical threats, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Implementing distributed energy solutions such as efficiency, ...
Growing outdoor recreation helps our kids and our economies
Originally Published in The Hill. By Gary Herbert and Gretchen WhitmerGetting outside didn’t use to have much competition – we ...
Education Topic Papers a Governor’s Dual Enrollment Framework for Success
The 2019 Governor’s Pocket Guide to Early Literacy underscores the importance of early literacy with compelling state examples of outcomes, initiatives ...
State Energy Toolkit
Governors are developing policies to promote the ongoing transformation of the energy sector into one that is more diverse, efficient, ...
Information Sharing 101: Protecting Public Health Data
NGA is excited to announce the launch of a webinar series on Legal Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies. This four-part ...
New Mexico Grid Modernization Retreat
December 12, 2019 | Santa Fe, NM The New Mexico Grid Modernization Retreat explored strategies to implement New Mexico’s Energy ...
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