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Podcast: Leadership in Times of Crisis - The Drucker Playbook

Lawrence Greenspun Director of Public Sector Engagement Drucker Institute Bio | LinkedIn Tanya Ange Deputy City Manager City of Boulder, Colorado Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Don't be clever, be conscientious. Lawrence Greenspun, Director of Public Sector Engagement for the Drucker Institute, and Tanya Ange, Deputy City Manager of Boulder, Colorado, joined the podcast to...

Common Ground – Community and Recovery in a Season of Social Distress

What I’m reading: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption What I’m watching: The Fertile Ground Documentary (debuted on PBS last week) Today's morning buzz is brought to you by Jordan Rae Hillman, AICP, Director of Planning, City of Jackson Mississippi This past weekend we @jxnplanning had the privilege of partnering through our Fertile...

How To Celebrate Juneteenth & Value Black Lives

This guest blog is by ELGL member Kelli Bennett, the Director of Communications for the Georgia Municipal Association. Want to write for ELGL? Send us an email and let's connect! On June 1, I dubbed June 2020 as #JoyJune and shared with my family and social media pals that I was going to be “intentional...

Geraldine, Sarah, Hillary, & ???

Today's Morning Buzz is by Kirsten Wyatt. Connect with Kirsten on LinkedIn & Twitter. What I'm Reading: The Proposal by Jasmine Guilory What I'm Watching: Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story on USA Network What I'm Listening To: The Be Good Tanyas In 1984, I was seven years old. Old enough to pay attention to...

Data Storytelling: How to Identify the Story behind the Data and Share it with the Community

This post is brought to you by Greg Stopka, Strategy and Innovation Manager at the Park District of Oak Park, as part of ELGL’s “Creative Community” learning series about the role of arts and culture in local government. Sign up to guest blog about your local government experiences with creative placemaking here – tell your...

Diversity Dashboard: State Level Champions

We are looking for state-level champions to encourage completion of the ELGL/CivicPulse Diversity Dashboard survey. Serving in this role is easy: you will interact with other state champions to find new ways to engage people in your state to take and share the survey. We'll use a Slack channel, check in calls, and social media...

You Were Laid Off... Now What?

This post is by ELGL member and GovLove cohost Alyssa Dinberg. Connect on Twitter and LinkedIn. As cities look for creative ways to financially recover from the devastating economic impacts of COVID-19, many have already or will begin to impose furloughs or even layoffs as a last resort to balancing the budget. Many of us...

2020 Diversity Dashboard Outreach Tools: You Can Help

Outreach Tools ELGL’s Diversity Dashboard measures the demographic data of local government leaders, and reports that information in a real-time dashboard. No matter your favorite quote about data collection, the gist is the same: when you’re paying close attention to trends, you’re better suited to solve or fix a challenge. We know that local government...

It's Time for a New Playbook

It is time for local government to adopt a new playbook when it comes to fighting for racial justice.

Wanted: Natural Environment Sprint User Advocates

The US Census Bureau Opportunity Project (TOP) brings together technologists, government, and communities to rapidly prototype digital products—powered by federal open data—that solve real-world problems for people across the country. To date, TOP’s 12-week technology development sprints have catalyzed over 100 consumer-facing digital products that leverage open data to address problems like disaster response, youth...

Commemorative Joey Garcia Bath Bombs

It's Joey Garcia Appreciation Week and we've added some special swag to the ELGL store to commemorate his service on the ELGL Board of Directors. You can be the proud owner of a Joey Garcia Bath Bomb! Your $10 donation includes a luxurious bath bomb with the golden imprinted words: Joey is the Bomb Why?...

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Podcast: Passion and Public Works with Joey Garcia, Torrance, California

Joey Garcia Sr. Administrative Analyst City of Torrance, CA LinkedIn | Twitter Keeping the fire lit. Joey Garcia, Senior Administrative Analyst for the City of Torrance, California, joined the podcast to talk about his career path and public works. He shared his experience finding that first job in local government, what he's learned from working...

Starting from Scratch

Right Now with Kevin Teater What I’m Listening to – Lights of Home by U2 What I’m Reading – A lot of news articles What I’m Watching – Train to Busan (best movie I’ve ever seen) What I’m Doing – Playing some tennis now that the courts are open Starting from Scratch Building an organization...

Crisis Management Cohort Applications Now Open

The COVID-19 crisis and the national protests for racial equity have a significant impact on local governments - one that is now felt in budgeting for the next fiscal year and in evaluating long-term spending projections. In many cases, reduced tax revenues, tourism revenues, and federal and state reductions in funding will necessitate cuts to...

#ELGLTakeoverTuesdays - Take Over Our Instagram!

Always wanted to introduce yourself and your local government to the ELGL family? Well, now you can! Throughout the year, ELGL will allow members to take over their Instagram account for a day and allow you to walk us through a day in the life of someone who works in your city, county, town, or...

Joey Garcia Appreciation Week

It's Joey Garcia Appreciation Week! To kick things off, we're sharing a video about Joey's service on the ELGL Board of Directors. He served from 2018 to 2020. We wanted to say thank you to him for his service to the organization and his commitment to public service.

Working to be Anti-Racist

This Morning Buzz is by Sarah Henricks; Los Altos Hills County Fire District What I’m reading: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League What I’m eating: a LOT of homemade funfetti birthday cake that I made for the hubby What I’m watching: 13th...

This Week With ELGL: Week of June 15, 2020

It's Joey Garcia Appreciation Week! This week, we'll be celebrating Joey and recognizing his contributions to ELGL as a member of the Board of Directors. His term ends on June 30. In addition, we're hosting five events this week - learn more and RSVP! Webinar: Recovery Planning for Local Visitor Economies June 15, 2020 Portland...

Why Budget Engagement? Why Now?

This guest post is brought to you by Chris Adams, President of Balancing Act and partner with Bang the Table Public engagement on the budget has always been something of an odd duck. Government budgets are complicated, typically hundreds of pages long, and involve at least a little math. They are generally inaccessible and deeply...