National Governors’ Association Center for Best Practices
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As a one-time only grant for core support of the Chair's National Service Initiative
Date
Jun. 04, 2026
Duration
12 months
Description
The National Governors Association (NGA) is the bipartisan organization of America’s fifty-five state and territorial governors, convening governors and other state leaders, conducting policy research, and assisting with government relations. Each year, the Chair of the NGA’s Executive Committee, which consists entirely of governors, leads a high-priority “Chair’s Initiative” on an issue relevant to all state leaders, such as Governor Spencer Cox’s “Disagree Better” or Governor Kevin Stitt’s “Reigniting the American Dream.” At the NGA’s summer summit in July, Governor Wes Moore will become Chair and his initiative will focus on national service. His emphasis will be on governors leading the charge to launch and grow state service programs such as the Maryland Corps and the One Utah Service Fellowship. With Carnegie support, the NGA will help at least 15 states plan or grow service programs and enable 25,000 or more new service positions in the next few years.
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For expansion and customization of the Pipeline Interactive Visualization Tool (PIVoT) to inform state policy decision-making across education, health and family economics.
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
10 months
Description
Historically, the separated nature of state agencies, a lack of interoperability among data systems, and the challenge of collecting comparable data across states has created a data-rich but information-poor environment for governors, yielding messy systems that translate to a lack of coherence in the district, school, and classroom—and confusion or even complete lack of access for children and families. The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) seeks to assist governors, their staffs, and senior agency officials to leverage key data points from across the birth-through-workforce pipeline to inform policy decisions. They have developed the Pipeline Interactive Visualization Tool (PIVoT) using publically available data for all fifty states across thirty indicators in education, health and family economics. With the support of this grant, NGA Center will optimize and expand the tool to include customized data points (such as student debt loads and rates) for individual states.
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Toward an action agenda to improve Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education
Date
Jun. 03, 2010
Duration
54 months
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Toward supporting states in developing policy and strategies for innovative teacher compensation models to increase teacher effectiveness and student outcomes
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
34 months
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For an orientation meeting for partners involved in developing state policies to promote adolescent literacy
Date
Jun. 08, 2006
Duration
11 months
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For assisting policymakers in developing strategies to improve adolescent literacy
Date
Sep. 29, 2005
Duration
76 months