And So It Begins….THE 2015 Supper Club Memorial Day weekend is upon us which means the kickoff to THE Supper Club is around the corner. The first ever Supper Club is scheduled for June 4 in the Chicagoland. RSVP is required.
ELGL continues the #13Percent focus on racial diversity in the local government workforce. Race Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum by Casie Yoder, City of Decatur, GA, penned our first entry. Today we hear from Brittany Bennett, Self Help.
We’re back! Our friends at the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) have invited us again to present at their annual (un) conference. This year we’ll be focusing our presentation on the #13Percent initiative.
Observations from Under the Saguaro by Christian M. Williams @MyPublicTweeter He’s back! Goodyear, AZ ‘s Christian Williams asks: What is your city doing to get citizens, particularly millennials, engaged in local government?
Ready, set – register for the Association of Washington Cities conference! ELGL is pleased to partner with AWC for a special “ELGL registration rate” to attend the annual conference in Wenatchee, WA on June 25.
Welcome to the second post in a series about creating a citizens’ academy by Dallas, OR administrative intern Daniel Adatto. In this series, he will walk you through how he created Dallas’ first citizens’ academy including the important research and academy elements he implemented.
Our innovation webinar series is back! This time with a technology company that has been helping local governments improve their financial reporting and transparency. Learn what OpenGov has done with municipalities from Los Angeles, CA to West Homestead, PA.
“It’s time to cheer on women and girls that want to sit at the table.” – Sheryl Sandberg Break out your bullhorn, dust off your kindle, and join us for an ELGL Book Club Twittersation on June 11th at 1pm EST about Sheryl Sandberg’s much talked about book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will … Continued
Host: I Want to Host Supper Club Guest: I Want to be a Supper Club Guest THE Supper Club is spreading across the country. Many of you have signed up to attend or host THE Supper Club. We’ll update this post with information on our hosts. We’ll keep sign ups open until mid-May.
This is the next installment in Kim Sandoval’s “Push/Pull” study. Kim surveyed people who had left the local government workforce. She hopes to learn the reasons why people leave, to tease out some of the possible impediments to achieving more diversity in local government leadership.
