Government Innovative public sector policies and programs

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

In The Tech Coup, former politician turned AI policy analyst Marietje Schaake warns that governments have ceded too much power to Silicon Valley—to the detriment of the public good.

Too Many Elections

By Avi Green & Zoltan Hajnal

Low-turnout off-cycle elections are bad for everyone. Civil society can help.

Transforming Workplace Culture to Attract Gen Z to the Public Sector

By Caroline Whistler & Tony Gherardini 1

To address government workforce shortages, the public sector must apply an outcomes-driven model to its culture and change the workplace to meet Gen Z where they are.

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Educating as if Democracy Depends on It

By Catherine E. Lhamon 1

Preparing young people to participate and govern means moving beyond entrusting civic learning to a single course in high school or an elective on campus.

How Can Schools Best Serve the Common Good?

By Sonja Santelises & Mike Matsuda

A conversation with two nationally renowned school superintendents about the biggest challenges they face, the relationship between education and democracy, and the tension between innovation and equity.

Compliance as Resistance

By Mark Sidel 1

Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance to pursue their goals as legalized entities, making them harder to suppress.

Renegotiating the Education Social Contract for the Age of AI

By Kim Smith 1

Choice, agency, and how to design a learning system where private gain and public good reinforce each other.

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The Randomista Revolt

By Helen Pearson

An excerpt from Beyond Belief on building the evidence revolution in Washington

Collective Impact

By John Kania & Mark Kramer 115

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Ten Nonprofit Funding Models

By William Landes Foster, Peter Kim & Barbara Christiansen 79

With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.