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Grand Challenge News Sep 29, 2020

Election 2020: Create Modern Water Systems for Safe and Sustainable Use

By the Election 2020 Academy Working Group including fellows, Scott Fosler, Gerry Galloway, Anthony Griffin, Felicia Marcus, and Mark Pisano. Enhancing Water Delivery Systems and Waste Water Systems in the United Sta…

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Grand Challenge News Aug 31, 2020

Virtual Roundtable on Building Resilient Communities

Across the nation, America needs resilient communities with the capacity to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations. Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters, economic dislocations, unaffordabl…

https://napawash.org/news/virtual-roundtable-on-building-resilient-communities

General News Aug 26, 2020

Data Literacy:  The Importance of Speaking the Language of Data to Public Sector Missions

Data literacy and aculture of evidence can lead to creative problem solving and innovation By Academy Fellow Judith Douglas ('14) In previous articles, we focused on how enabling the right environment and recognizing t…

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Grand Challenge News Aug 18, 2020

Election 2020: Modernize and Reinvigorate the Public Workforce

By an Election 2020 Academy Working Group including fellows Jeff Neal, Joel Aberbach, Mark Abramson, Alan Balutis, Stephen Barr, Don Kettl, and John Palguta Modernizing and Reinvigorating the Public Workforce The feder…

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Grand Challenge News Jul 26, 2020

Roundtable on Developing Public Governance and Engagement

Effective problem solving usually requires federal, state, and local governments to work successfully together, and often with the private and nonprofit sectors. Fragmented and fractious inter-governmental arrangements—c…

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Grand Challenge News May 26, 2020

Roundtable on Modernizing and Reinvigorating the Public Service

As federal, state, and local governments are increasingly called upon to address complex and interconnected “wicked problems,” their need for leaders, managers, technical experts, and front-line workers in the right jobs…

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General News May 14, 2020

Meet our Fellows: David C. Williams ('19)

David C. Williams’ appointment to the Postal Service Board of Governors by President Donald Trump was confirmed by the Senate in August of 2018. Williams, a native of Illinois, served on the Board of Governors until the …

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General News Apr 16, 2020

Meet our Fellows: Angela Bailey ('19)

Angela Bailey is the Chief Human Capital Officer at the Department of Homeland Security. Ms. Bailey has dedicated close to 38 years to public service, with almost 32 of those years in human resources. Ms. Bailey was appo…

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Grand Challenge News Apr 8, 2020

When Everything Is Urgent and Important

By Elizabeth Kellar, the Director of Public Policy at ICMA, the former President and CEO of the Center for State and Local Government Excellence, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Cities …

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General News Apr 3, 2020

NAPA Co-signs Letter in Support of the Report of the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service

An open letter to President Donald J. Trump and Members of the 116th Congress: We are writing to you as organizations dedicated to inspiring public service and encouraging excellence in government. We welcome the final …

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General News Mar 5, 2020

Meet our Fellows: Stan Soloway ('16)

Stan Soloway is President & CEO of Celero Strategies, LLC, a full-service strategic consultancy focused on the federal market. Celero Strategies is Soloway’s latest step in a career during which he has become widely …

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Grand Challenge News Feb 26, 2020

Roundtable on Connecting Individuals to Meaningful Work

How should the MPA curriculum be adapted to meet future workforce needs? David Gragan Nearly all MPA curricula require similar evidence of mastery of a common body of knowledge—for example, The Principals of Public Pol…

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