This article was written by Tony Lopez, Town of Miami Lakes; Deputy Town Manager. Tony wrote this article as part of the Crisis Management Cohort with Drucker Institute. Read all the articles from the cohort here. Connect with Tony on email or LinkedIn. Hi everyone, my name is Tony Lopez, Deputy Town Manager for the...
This guest blog is by Jeremy Shackett, Engagement Strategist at Bang the Table. Do you ever find yourself at the bottom of a rabbit hole of TikToks or YouTube videos? Do you ever go to Amazon looking for one book, and realize you have two books, a stapler, an air fryer, and a set of...
This article was written by Meryl Phair, Government Innovation Fellow for @GBLabs in Great Barrington, MA as well as the Environmental Section Editor for Mount Holyoke News. Meryl wrote this article as part of the Crisis Management Cohort with Drucker Institute. Read all the articles from the cohort here. Connect with Meryl on email or...
CivStart has chosen another twelve innovative startup companies to join its accelerator program focused on building an honest and inclusive ecosystem of local government solutions. CivStart, a non-profit accelerator bringing govtech innovations to state and local government, today announced the twelve startup companies participating in their second cohort. The cohort was selected after an intensive...
One of the challenges to promoting equity and understanding is we have not adequately defined the status quo, the accepted norm, the set standard we place on various aspects and functions of society. It’s difficult to question, critique, and ultimately change the way we perceive and engage in our work when our current methods are...
This article shared by ELGL on behalf of our friends at the Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University. The Davenport Institute’s virtual Certificate Program in Advanced Public Engagement for Local Government is a five-week online training for mid-career professionals in local government. It is a one of a kind program designed to give local government leaders...
This article was written by Catherine Wright, Public Information Officer for the Town of Hillsborough, North Carolina as part of the Small Places, Big Ideas Innovation Cohort. Is COVID-19 the killer of innovation? Not necessarily, but it certainly paused much of our efforts in exploring two engagement platforms as part of the inaugural Small Places,...
This article is written by Lindsay M. Miller is a National Civic League Senior Fellow and ELGL COVID-19 Equity Ambassador. Lindsay wrote this article as part of the Equity Ambassadors Cohort. You can find all the articles for this cohort here. This article originally appeared on the National Civic Review. During the first few months of...
There was a time when state and local governments could work out deals with Washington. But as the pandemic struggle illustrates, the glory days of big intergovernmental initiatives have ebbed away. Amid the unseemly brawl about continuing unemployment benefits for those whose lives have been upended by COVID-19, an unsettling truth has emerged: State and...
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