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JULY 25, 2016

Click here for more information on the 2016 CPBB (Un)Conference. And cheers to the incredible National Research Center for their partnership and sponsorship of the CPBB "A Prioritized World" 2016 Unconference.

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JUNE 28, 2016

The Center for Priority Based Budgeting 2016 "Prioritized World" (Un)Conference is just over a month away. The 2016 CPBB Unconference is going to be our biggest and most dynamic event to date! Last year NRC engaged at our 2015 conference (and is a sponsor of the 2016 conference).

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

AUGUST 26, 2016

We get insights from Michael Nutter who served for eight years at the Mayor of Philadelphia, from 2008 to January 2016. We get insights from Michael Nutter who served for eight years at the Mayor of Philadelphia, from 2008 to January 2016.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

More information: For more information on the 15 projects, including their goals, strategies, results and costs, see MDRC’s PowerPoint presentation presented at the BIAS Capstone Convening in April 2016 [ click here ].

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

AUGUST 2, 2016

From 2015 to 2016, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.

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JULY 15, 2016

First elected to the legislature in 2007 at the age of 25, today his is the Chairman of Performance-Based Budgeting Committee, which launched in 2016.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Dennis Culhane discusses how states and localities are linking their data in Integrated Data Systems to spur social innovation and improve service delivery 2016

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JULY 27, 2016

How can public agencies can use rapid, low-cost experiments to test (and learn from) low-cost, light-touch interventions such as communications and outreach strategies?

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

AUGUST 18, 2016

Public leaders — whether they’re helping run a state agency, a school system, a hospital, a set of Head Start centers or any other organization — are likely to implement changes over time, whether it’s adjusting programs or adding new services.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JUNE 30, 2016

To get insights into what it takes to […] 2016An important and underused opportunity for public agencies to improve their results and tackle critical challenges is researcher-practitioner partnerships.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 22, 2016

Utah is one of the top states in the U.S. in terms of evidence-based policymaking and budgeting.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 13, 2016

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement. To do that, it has a unique strategy: increasing the supply of high-quality evidence about what works in order to enable better decisions by teachers and school leaders.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JUNE 10, 2016

How can communities better address young people’s physical and emotional health needs? A growing trend is the use of school-based health centers.

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JULY 6, 2016

If you think about what the Federal government does, grant making may not be the first thing you think of. Even so, billions of dollars flow from the Federal level to states, localities and nonprofits in the form of grants.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MAY 27, 2016

Bob Behn of the Harvard Kennedy School is one of the leading thinkers on the subjects of public management and leadership. He has argued that public agencies are unlikely to produce better results simply by creating rules, requirements or performance systems.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JUNE 25, 2016

And how can […] 2016How can the United States raise job quality and skills for American workers through more effective education and workforce development within states?

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 25, 2016

Improving schooling outcomes of disadvantaged youth is a top policy priority in the United States, but few interventions have produced convincing evidence that they can improve those outcomes, especially for adolescent youth — the age at which socially costly outcomes occur, such as high school dropout.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 15, 2016

Over the last 15 years, the field of education has become considerably more evidence focused, including a growing number of high-quality studies about how to help students succeed in school. An important catalyst has been the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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MAY 13, 2016

When schools or school districts implement district wide reform initiatives, how can they accurately determine if those reform efforts are having the positive effects that school leaders had hoped?

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MAY 2, 2016

And […] 2016Is my program or initiative having a positive impact?

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MARCH 28, 2016

The results for high school students show surprisingly large […] 2016Can regular, detailed information sent to parents about their students’ progress lead to improved student achievement?

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MARCH 24, 2016

Today, results-focused cities are using data to improve city services, boost the quality of life, and literally save lives. The City of Las Vegas has gained a reputation for its data-focused approach to addressing important city challenges.

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APRIL 20, 2016

A new report by Gordon Berlin, the president of the nonprofit social policy research firm MDRC (@MDRC_News), reflects on the […] 2016A Social Impact Bond (SIB) uses private funds – from philanthropy or other investors — to pay for a social, educational, or health programs.

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MARCH 18, 2016

The mission of the office is to use data to set goals, track performance, and drive […] 2016The City of New Orleans under Mayor Mitch Landrieu has gained a reputation as being one of the most innovative and data-driven city governments.

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MARCH 15, 2016

In the U.S., more than a third of elderly patients discharged from hospitals are re-admitted within 90 days, often needlessly. An intervention that is helping change that is the nursing-led Transitional Care Model (TCM), pioneered at the University of Pennsylvania.

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APRIL 13, 2016

Milwaukee’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, launched in 2008, is a citywide effort led by the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County. It has been recognized as a model of community collaboration, including by the White House Council for Community Solutions.

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APRIL 4, 2016

In program evaluation, using the most rigorous methods possible is essential for producing credible research findings. But beyond the goal of rigor, relevance is important too.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, is recognized as a leader in using data to improve the results of its human services programs. In particular, the county’s Department of Human Services (DHS) created its Data Warehouse in 1999.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Can a tax on sugary drinks reduce consumption and therefore fight obesity? The nation of Mexico, which has similarly high rates of obesity as the United States, is putting that question to the test.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Addressing the nation’s — and the world’s — biggest challenges will require learning and doing what works. A powerful tool for doing that is the randomized evaluation, also known as a randomized control trial (RCT). It is a tool that is increasingly being used in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

How can schools use low-cost solutions to help children make healthier food choices? David Just is an expert on that topic.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is at the forefront of efforts to increase diversity among future leaders in the sciences.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JANUARY 14, 2016

The Annie E. Casey Foundation, through its juvenile justice initiative , has documented widespread maltreatment of youth in state-funded juvenile corrections facilities, including high rates of sexual victimization and the heavy-handed use of disciplinary isolation.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

Increasing the graduation rates at community colleges is an important national challenge.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Mexico consumes a lot of soda and its soda industry (particularly Coca-Cola) is very powerful. Even so, in 2013, Mexico’s congress was able to successfully pass a nationwide one-peso-per-litre (about 10%) tax on sugary drinks, over the opposition of the soda industry. How did it happen?

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Regionalization of services and public-private partnership (“P3’s”) are among the greatest sources of opportunity for PBB communities (at the 2016 PBB Conference, the PBB data-mine demonstrated $409million in opportunities among PBB communities alone in 2016).

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JUNE 21, 2016

Last week, the League of Minnesota Cities teamed forces with the Alliance for Innovation in jointly hosting TLG 2016 in St. "What distinguishes Scott County among the 120+ implementers in the PBB community, is the organization’s commitment to being truly data-driven."

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In 2016, Strathcona County had one of the lowest municipal tax increases in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Intro: November 15, 2016 from Noon to 1 PM EST What are partnerships and how PBB leads to unveiling opportunities around partnerships II. Public/Private Partnerships: December 13, 2016 from Noon to 1 PM EST CPBB to co-present with leading public-private local government provider Safebuilt III.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 26, 2016

" We need to FIRST get our priorities straight and THEN align our money with our stated priorities." - Brad Karger, Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger This article originally written by Brad Karger and published in the Summer 2016 Marathon County Newsletter.

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