This guest article is by ELGL member Matt Hirschinger, Assistant to the City Manager for the City of Arvada, CO. Read all of Matt’s other articles at the Social Justice –> Government homepage. One challenge in bringing equity into our lines of work is how to adequately measure it. How do we effectively measure whether … Continued
Today’s Morning Buzz is by Amie Hendrix, City Manager of Geneva, New York. Connect with Amie on LinkedIn or Twitter. What I’m Reading: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee What I’m Watching: Friends – The One with the Race Car Bed What I’m Listening to: The … Continued
This opportunity is brought to you by our friends at the UniverCity Alliance. UniverCity Year is now accepting proposals for the 2022-2025 UniverCity Year program. Please email Managing Director Gavin Luter at gavin@cows.org or call at 608-261-1141 with any questions about the program or for information about developing a successful proposal. We are also available to … Continued
This challenge opportunity was shared with us by our friends at the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance and UrbanLeap. What is the C² Challenge? The Alliance recently launched the C² Challenge seeking actionable solutions that address four specific problems faced by Colorado communities: housing stability, safe streets, community resilience, and civic engagement. Communities are facing significant challenges as they rebuild … Continued
Lottery-Selected Panels are gaining traction worldwide as a way for governments to engage their residents in collaborative and inclusive policy decisions deeply. ELGL and Healthy Democracy are excited to announce a new cohort coming in January 2023, Lottery-Selected Panels: How to Instigate Inclusive and Deliberative Participation in Your Community. Often called Citizens’ Assemblies or Citizens’ … Continued
This article was written by Meagan Landis, Regional Coordinator at Prince William County Department of Transportation, as part of the Federal Funding Opportunities to Create More Livable Communities cohort. Connect with Meagan on LinkedIn. As a public sector employee of a rapidly growing and urbanizing County grappling with the ongoing impacts of the global pandemic, … Continued
This article is brough to you by Bruce Katz, Founding Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University (Twitter, LinkedIn) and Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, CEO of Accelerator for America (LinkedIn). Content has been adapted for ELGL by Chelsea Gaylord, Graduate Research Analyst at the Nowak Metro Finance Lab (Twitter, LinkedIn). As we … Continued
The ELGL Board of Directors unanimously selected Samantha Harkins to serve as Interim Executive Director with a start date of June 20, 2022. Samantha served on the ELGL Board of Directors from 2019 to 2021, served as Deputy Mayor of the City of Lansing, MI, and is currently the Founder and CEO of Hundred Place. … Continued
The new Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University is currently recruiting two exciting positions. The roles are based in Baltimore and would work with the center’s Academic Practice, where we bridge research and practice to advance the field of public innovation in city halls around the world. We are looking for candidates … Continued
In May, ELGL shared an anonymous question from a member organization that was having difficulty hiring for a management analyst position. Below please find the crowd sourced inquiry, and the variety of responses from ELGL members. Names have been removed for anonymity. Question: Requesting feedback to assist an ELGL member organization that is having a … Continued
