Social Pinpoint
JANUARY 30, 2018
The International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) developed the Spectrum of Public Participation to help clarify the role of the public in the project planning and decision-making process. The framework differentiates between the different levels of participation depending on the project goals, time frames resources and level of concern or priority.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JANUARY 30, 2018
How can program managers within public agencies — whether local, state or federal — use random assignment (in other words, a lottery) within programs to build evidence that can strengthen results and improve customer service? A good example comes from South Carolina. Its Medicaid program is administered through Managed Care Organizations, which offer different health care plans to Medicaid beneficiaries.
Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends
JANUARY 22, 2018
Technology has changed the way we do pretty much everything in our daily lives. With technology-based transportation and convenience services such as Uber, Lyft, ZipCar, Instacart for groceries and Amazon for basically everything else, the ways people are getting around cities is changing drastically. These services dramatically reduce the need for people to use their personal vehicles, and this could mean a change in the future of land use in urban areas.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JANUARY 25, 2018
As the new report “ Putting the Experiment Back in the Experimental Sites Initiative ” discusses, the U.S. Department of Education’s “Ex Sites” initiative — in place in one form or another since the mid-1980s — is designed to allow the Department to grant flexibility to institutions of higher education to test and evaluate potential federal policy changes, including around federal student aid rules.
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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
JANUARY 11, 2018
The partnership between Stanford University and the San Francisco Unified School District is one of the best examples of a partnership between a university and a school district. Launched in 2009, the partnership matches researchers from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education with district leaders to create research projects to directly inform the school district’s work in terms of policies, practice and scholarship to maximize student outcomes.
Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends
JANUARY 9, 2018
In today’s episode, we’re taking a look at a city and mayor who have done some incredible work when it comes to park access. The city is San Francisco, California. Unfortunately, since recording this podcast, we were saddened to hear that San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee tragically passed away unexpectedly. Mayor Lee was an extremely passionate advocate for San Francisco’s parks, and under his leadership, the city made park and recreation programs more accessible than ever to its citizens.
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