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Standing Panel News Oct 1, 2021

Achieving the Full Promise and Potential of Intergovernmental Cooperative Purchasing

An Intergovernmental Systems Case Study By Stephen A. Hamill Mark Pisano John Bartle Richard Callahan The Market There are more than 90,000 independent state, local and education governments (SLED Government Agencies) i…

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Standing Panel News Sep 30, 2021

Technology Leadership Standing Panel September Meeting

Thursday, September 30th, 2021 Topic: Public Interest Technology More information will be provided at a later date. Keep an eye out for a discussion about Technology Leadership in the Biden Administration during the Acad…

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General News Sep 26, 2021

Meet Our Fellows: H. Brinton Milward

Who or what inspired you to work in public service? After graduating college, I joined the Peace Corps and spent two of the best years of my life in Liberia, West Africa. It was this experience that made me decide to g…

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General News Sep 19, 2021

Meet Our Fellows: Dr. Ron Sanders

Who or what inspired you to work in public service? Growing up, my parents taught me that we had a duty to ‘give back’ to our country and our fellow citizens. That’s something they practiced first-hand—although my father…

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General News Sep 6, 2021

Meet Our Fellows: Stuart C. Gilman

Who or what inspired you to work in public service? I was 13 when I heard John Kennedy’s inaugural address. What resonated with me was “do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” …

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General News Aug 15, 2021

Meet Our Fellows: Barry Bozeman

Who or what inspired you to work in public service? More what than who. I was a Viet Nam, civil rights era, War on Poverty young adult. It was in the wind. With some of us it resulted in a lifelong commitment to publi…

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Standing Panel News Aug 12, 2021

Technology Leadership Standing Panel August Meeting

Technology Leadership Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Pandemic Thursday, August 12th, 2021, 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time (ET) Governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have both enabled and relied on a wide ra…

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General News Aug 6, 2021

Meet Our Fellows: Robert Durant

Who or what inspired you to work in public service? I was inspired to study and do research on public service initially when I watched my father, who was a small business person, trying to deal with government regulation…

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General News Aug 1, 2021

Meet Our Fellows: David Ammons

Who or what inspired you to work in public service? When John Kennedy delivered his speech imploring Americans to ask what they could do for their country, I was still just a kid, but I heard those words. I was probably …

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Grand Challenge News Jul 30, 2021

Thoughts from Our Fellows: Develop New Approaches to Public Governance and Engagement

Welcome to Thoughts from Our Fellows, a collection of recent activity regarding the Academy's Grand Challenge of each Month. In July, the Academy focused on Develop New Approaches to Public Governance and Engagement. Bel…

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General News Jul 25, 2021

Meet Our Fellows: Alan Shark

Dr. Alan R. Shark, Executive Director of CompTIA’s Public Technology Institute, NAPA Fellow and Chair of Standing Panel on Technology Leadership. And associate professor at the Schar School of policy and Government, GMU.…

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General News Jun 27, 2021

Meet Our Fellows: Charles Menifield ('18)

Who or what inspired you to work in public service? After graduating from the University of Missouri, I found great rewards in political science research. However, I quickly discerned that I was the main beneficiary of …

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