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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Food is Medicine: A Strategic Shift in State Health Policy
Across the country, Governors are driving a new phase of healthcare transformation—one that positions healthy food as a reimbursable, clinically relevant intervention to address chronic disease. While the connection between ...
Let’s Get Ready for Improved Educational Outcomes
At NGA, we take best practices seriously, with dedicated teams who work with state policy leaders and other experts to foster information sharing between states and develop innovative solutions to ...
The State of Advanced Nuclear Energy
Nuclear energy is having a moment. That was the consensus during a briefing the NGA Economic Development and Revitalization Task Force recently hosted in conjunction with the Nuclear Energy Institute ...
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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Opportunities for States to Pursue Multistate Compliance Options under the Clean Power Plan
The Clean Power Plan (CPP) — established pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases ...
Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure
Modern society depends on critical infrastructure facilities, such as transportation networks, telecommunications lines, water mains, and power lines, which are ...
Cybersecurity and Public Safety
The state and local officials that compose the homeland security and public safety communities must confront all hazards to the ...
Improving State Coordination for Energy Assurance Planning and Response
Governors have a critical responsibility to help their states prepare for and respond to natural or humanmade disasters. This responsibility ...
State Strategies for Advancing the Use of Energy Storage
Wide-scale adoption of advanced energy storage technologies could have profound effects on the electric power sector. The technologies offer the ...
Housing as Health Care: A Road Map for States
Evidence suggests that providing housing to certain high-need, high-cost patients can transform lives and have a very meaningful return on ...
Improving State Efforts to Prepare and Respond to Public Health Emergencies
Public health disasters, like natural or manmade disasters, have the potential to overwhelm a state’s emergency response capabilities resulting in ...
Improving State Efforts to Prepare and Respond to Public Health Emergencies
Public health disasters, like natural or manmade disasters, have the potential to overwhelm a state’s emergency response capabilities resulting in ...
Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) Webinar #3
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the final in a series of three webinars designed ...
Improving Human Services Programs and Outcomes Through Shared Data
Governors are responsible for ensuring that state government meets the needs of their constituents across a range of areas—human services/social ...
Medicaid High-Need, High-Cost Programs: Promising Practices for Evaluation Metrics
For three years, NGA has been working with 10 states and 1 territory to develop statewide programs that transform the ...
The Potential Role for Microgrids During Electric Power Outages Webinar
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a webinar on microgrids for critical asset resiliency. This ...
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