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Podcast: Workforce Equity with Ben Duncan, Multnomah County, OR

Ben Duncan Chief Diversity and Equity Officer Multnomah County, Oregon Bio | LinkedIn Community organizing in government. Ben Duncan, Chief Diversity and Equity Officer for Multnomah County, Oregon, joined the podcast to talk about his career working on equity issues which began with environmental justice and health issues. He discussed the County's Workforce Equity Strategic Plan...

You Literally, Need to Read This

Today’s Buzz is by Samantha Roberts– connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter! What I'm working on outside of work: Discipline in exercise and how I spend my time! (read: not on instagram) What I'm looking forward to: Swimming with my kids this weekend My next big goal: Unrelated to work, I think we're finally going to pull the plug...

Pivot

When I started conceptualizing Social Justice -> Local Government last year, I came up with a basic premise which I spoke of in my introductory post this January. “In this series I will take the most critical, interesting, and relevant lessons I learn in my coursework and research [on social justice topics such as feminism...

Addressing Poor Performance: Every Manager's Challenge

This morning's buzz is written by Ann Marie Townshend, City Manager of Lewes, Delaware, as small coastal town of about 3,000 residents. What I Am Reading: The Bible (the Gospels specifically) What I Am Listing To: The Lines Between Us by Lawrence Lanahan While we struggle to deal with the effects of COVID and strive to achieve racial...

Using Public Art to Change the Way We've Always Done It

This blog was written by Michelle Bixler, Director of Community Development in Strasburg, VA. I work for a community named Strasburg located right at the intersection of interstates 81 and 66 in northwestern Virginia. Strasburg has 6,600 residents. Like a lot of communities in VA, it has a historic downtown, with beautiful architecture and Civil War markers throughout. It is rural. It...

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...

Rewind: Local Government Preparation for Presidential Candidate Visits

This webinar originally aired on July 21, 2020 Now – while the presidential candidates are mostly staying home – is the perfect time to prepare your local gov for potential campaign visits, especially if you’re in a battleground state. Because when you get the call that a presidential candidate will visit your town, you don’t...

Rewind: Driving Equity Solutions Through Program Level Data

This webinar originally aired on July 14, 2020 and was presented in partnership with ResourceX CEO, Chris Fabian. Government can be a powerful force for equity. A critical player in that transformation is local government. With its substantial authority and influence over significant policies, services and resources, government can play a vital role in dramatically improving outcomes...

Top 20 Reasons #localgov Leaders are Inspired to Say WTF

Today's Buzzsatire is brought to you by Sarah E. O’Brien | Community Whisperer @ Collaborative Development Collective (Facebook, LinkedIn) What I am reading: Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzel What I am listening to: Ten Percent Happier Podcast: The Case for "Doing Nothing "in a...

ELGL Strategic Plan - Quarterly Updates

ELGL reports on the progress on our strategic plan each quarter using our ClearPoint Strategy software. Check this post to review current and prior updates and learn more how ELGL is making progress on the plan. First Quarter, 2020 Highlights from this quarter include the National Day of Supper Clubbing, as well as a very...

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Member Profile: Alannah Doak

Alannah Doak Assistant Township Manager, Delta Charter Township LinkedIn Storytelling or innovation? Which is the most overused word in local government? Innovation. What year would the most important in your life? Why? 2017, First full-time job and relocated out of state for it. (Complete this sentence) The one thing that I think is missing from...

Podcast: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with Sly James, Kauffman Mayors Council

Sly James Consultant Former Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri Bio | Twitter | LinkedIn An entrepreneurial mayor. Sly James, former Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, jointed the podcast to talk about the work of the Kauffman Mayors' Council and attracting talent and supporting entrepreneurs. He shared two programs led by the City of Kansas City,...

Responsible Data Use Playbooks for Local Government

This guest blog is by ELGL member Jason Jones, a Data Trust Lead at BrightHive. Today is an exciting day for us at BrightHive. Earlier this morning, we released our first two Responsible Data Use Playbooks. We wrote these playbooks to help public and private sector leaders begin rapidly using and sharing data to increase...

End the Public Meeting as We Know It

Right Now with Warren Kagarise (Linkedin/Twitter/Instagram) What I'm watching: Cartoon Network's droll, empathetic "Steven Universe" — a planet-saving palate cleanser after long days spent on COVID-19 communications. What I'm reading: "Scoop" by Evelyn Waugh, a cutting 1938 novel about pre-social-media influencers gone awry. I watched, with a mixture of fascination and horror, as speaker after...

Centering Equity in Climate Action Planning

This article is written by Samantha Roberts, Climate Policy Analyst AIC, Sustainability, City Manager’s Office, City of Eugene, Oregon. She wrote this article as part of the Equity Ambassadors Cohort. You can find all the articles for this cohort here. As we use COVID-19 to rethink emergency response in light of mitigating impending climate impacts,...

This Week With ELGL: Week of July 20, 2020

Five local government learning events the week of July 20, 2020, covering equity, inclusion, COVID-19, food insecurity, presidential visits.

I Have to Ask: Communicating During COVID

In this series, ELGL Co-founder Kent Wyatt poses three questions to the guest columnist, and the guest columnist selects one to reflect on. This week, Ashley Copeland, Communications Manager for the City of Newnan, GA, writes about the challenges of communicating during COVID-19. We have all witnessed COVID-19 and its impact on the lives of...

Blind Spots

Today's Morning Buzz is brought to you by Dr. Sarah Martin, VP of Health Solutions at mySidewalk. Connect with her on Twitter @DrSarahMarie. What I'm Watching: We just finished Alone: The Arctic. Highly recommend if you love loneliness, survival and a combination of reality competition and wild game. What I'm Reading: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett...

Podcast: Community Safety & Innovation with Sarita Nair, Albuquerque, NM

Sarita Nair Chief Administrative Officer City of Albuquerque, New Mexico Bio | Twitter | LinkedIn One Albuquerque. Sarita Nair, the Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, joined the podcast to talk about a new approach to public safety and implementing innovation. She discussed the City's new Community Safety Department, the impacts...