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Meet the PAFR Fellows! Part Four

ELGL and the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) created the PAFR Fellowship Program to connect graduate students with local governments looking to create a Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) for submission to the GFOA award program. The fellows have all been finalized and ELGL and GFOA are excited to announce everyone over the next few … Continued

Meet the PAFR Fellows! Part Three

ELGL and the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) created the PAFR Fellowship Program to connect graduate students with local governments looking to create a Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) for submission to the GFOA award program. The fellows have all been finalized and ELGL and GFOA are excited to announce everyone over the next few … Continued

Calling for GovLove Hosts and Contributors

ELGL’s GovLove podcast has quickly become one of our most popular content offerings. Currently, the GovLove team is comprised of five hosts (Alyssa, Ben, Javon, Kent, and Kirsten) and one transcriber (Harpreet). We seek to grow the team to allow us to produce more high-quality episodes and to widen our worldview of topics and perspectives. … Continued

Meet the PAFR Fellows! Part 2

ELGL and the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) created the PAFR Fellowship Program to connect graduate students with local governments looking to create a Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) for submission to the GFOA award program. The fellows have all been finalized and ELGL and GFOA are excited to announce everyone over the next few … Continued

Meet the PAFR Fellows! Part I

ELGL and the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) created the PAFR Fellowship Program to connect graduate students with local governments looking to create a Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) for submission to the GFOA award program. The fellows have all been finalized and ELGL and GFOA are excited to announce everyone over the next few … Continued

Dress Code Policies: The Hairy Dilemma

ELGL is the proud host of CivicPride content. The mission of CivicPRIDE is to advance inclusive local government by empowering LGBTQIA+ leadership.It is a national association for local government professionals of all gender and sexual identities. CivicPRIDE Board Member Taylor Reimann (LinkedIn) discusses workplace dress code policies and how confusing they can be for queer … Continued

ELGL Announces Membership Directory

ELGL Members, you now have a directory full of awesome people to explore! Great news! ELGL is happy to announce that we are launching our ELGL Member Directory. This will be a unique way to look up members based on states so you can find other ELGL members in your region.  The directory will show … Continued

UNC MPA Research Team: Remote Connection for Innovation Cohorts

Each spring, ELGL submits project ideas to the first-year students in Leisha Dehart-Davis’ class in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s MPA Program, and we wait with our fingers crossed to see if the students will select our program ideas. We are happy to say that our proposal was accepted, and this year we’re hosting a … Continued

Apolitical COVID-19 Resources

Apolitical‘s weekly briefing contains a variety of helpful resources about COVID-19 research, mapping, and advice. Take a look at each of their links provided below! What’s the psychological impact of quarantine and how can we reduce it? Here’s what the evidence says. In this article, health experts review studies to help inform decisions. Find crowdsourced tech, … Continued

ELGL & UrbanLeap announce the 2020 Innovation Cohort Participants 

ELGL’s Innovation Cohort programs provide cities with the opportunity to tap into the collective energy and intelligence of the ELGL network with the assistance of the UrbanLeap platform. Members form a virtual, across-the-country Innovation Cohort to learn about new solutions, test them and learn from the experiences, and then figure out how to put those … Continued

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