Data.gov

JULY 26, 2016

For the first time, USDA’s Rural Housing Service is publicly releasing data across every program area in which the agency provides loans, guarantees, and grants—multifamily housing, single-family housing, and community facilities. This set of data will bring stakeholders and the … Continued. The post Introducing New Rural Housing Data from USDA appeared first on Data.gov.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 25, 2016

"Right now we’re seeing governments truly understand how to take their most precious resources, staff, and reallocate them towards the new programs that really accomplish what their communities desire." - CPBB Co-founder Chris Fabian National Research Center Exclusive Interview with CPBB Co-Founder Chris Fabian and the 2016 Conference NRC's Angelica gets the scoop on the highly anticipated 2016 CPBB Unconference and the power of priority based budgeting in this exclusive local government intervi

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

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? Also, how can agencies partner with academic researchers to run those experiments and what characteristics of those researcher-practitioner partnerships help make them successful? To get insights into all those topics, we are joined by Adam Sacarny (@ asacarny ).

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 7, 2016

We will have information at our hands that we don't have right now. Council, because council has to approve the spending that comes before us, this is going to give us a great tool to be able to understand where we want to allocate dollars." - City of Toledo Councilperson Sandy Spang In an unprecedented public-private partnership, the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the City of Toledo, OH to bring Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) to Northwest Ohio.

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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. In particular, with efforts by the Utah State Legislature and the administration of Governor Gary Herbert, Utah has created a variety of agency-specific and cross-agency tools to incorporate evidence into policy and funding decisions. That includes: A requirement from the Governor’s budget office that agencies seeking new funding provide evidence of program efficiency and effectiveness and, for

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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. Launched in 2011 with a founding grant of £125 million from the UK Department of Education, today it operates as an independent grant making nonprofit.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 27, 2016

PBB & Strategic Planning An analysis of survey data from municipalities who have implemented priority based budgeting For the 5th year in a row, Priority Based Budgeting has been the subject of a Master's degree or PHD thesis defense. CPBB's annual Conference has provided a platform to showcase the academic experts and researchers, as it is our belief that unbiased academic research is part of the key to the Priority Based Budgeting movement - the more research, the more we all learn, and th

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

"Some recommended updates to the strategic plan include revising prioritized strategic goal ranking, adding outcome statements for strategic goals, and integration of priority-based budgeting references." Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting. As the first municipality in Canada to implement online PBB, this will result in Strathcona County being more proactive, strategic and effective in program and service delivery.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 15, 2016

Over the past several years, the State of Mississippi has taken important steps to use evidence in order to get better results from state spending and, in turn, achieve better outcomes for the people of Mississippi. That includes defining tiers of evidence to focus funding on what works; creating comprehensive program inventories that categorize the level of evidence relating to each program’s effectiveness; and reinvigorating the state’s use of evidence-based budgeting (also known as performanc

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