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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Local, State Coalition Presses Congress for Urgent SNAP Fix
Officials on the frontlines of SNAP benefits administration across the nation are warning Congress about a little-known legislative provision with a huge impact on state budgets – an impact supercharged ...
State Leadership: Governors Work to Sustain Food Assistance
Governors and their teams stepped up to provide crucial support and safeguard the well-being of their communities during the 43 days of the 2025 federal shutdown. The shutdown demonstrated Governors’ ...
Policy Academy to Improve Crime Clearance Rates
When crimes are solved and cases are closed, communities experience greater confidence in their justice systems, victims receive closure and potential offenders face meaningful deterrence. For Governors, clearance rates offer ...
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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Center for Best Practices Library
States Continue Advancing Strategies to Scale Work-Based Learning
This paper is a guide for how governors can lead the way on expanding work-based learning opportunities as part of ...
Financing an Equitable and High-Quality K-12 Education System
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a webinar that provided state examples and strategies to ...
Governors’ Education Policy Advisors Institute
December 13-15, 2017 | Miami Beach, FL The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted governors’ education ...
State Trends for Advancing Energy Storage
This webinar will provide state policymakers with insights on some of the ways that states can advance the deployment of ...
State Trends for Advancing Energy Storage
Advanced energy storage technologies are transforming the U.S. electric power market to one that is more resilient, cleaner and more ...
Building Complex Care Programs: A Road Map for States
Since 2013, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) Health Division has worked with 10 states and ...
Mid-Course Workshop of the Policy Academy on Power Sector Modernization
November 29–December 1, 2017 | Orlando, FL The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the Mid-Course ...
Powering Up: State Trends for Advancing the Use of Energy Storage
Advanced energy storage technologies are transforming the U.S. electric power market to one that is more resilient, cleaner and more ...
Intergovernmental Meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy
November 15–17, 2017 | San Antonio, TX The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the 16th ...
Grid Smarts: State Considerations for Adopting Grid Modernization Technologies
Governors can guide the consideration of trade-offs in adopting grid modernization technologies by setting clear policy goals and ensuring that ...
Maternal and Child Health Update 2016
Health care costs continue to rise around the country, and so states are looking for ways to reduce spending while ...
Nuclear Energy Webinar Series
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a webinar series on nuclear energy. As nuclear power ...
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