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Pressures and Strategies for Local Sustainability and High Performance Under the Fiscal Crisis
Executive Summary Local governments in the United States are, today, caught in the worst fiscal crisis ever facing the nation. However, they have entered this crisis ill-prepared. Being largely dependent…
Adoption of Sustainability Policy Innovations and Green Local Governance
Executive Summary This essay points out that local government should be a critical entity to create innovative polices for climate change protection and implement efficiently these policies reducing less cost…
Conjunction Junction, What’s Your Function? An Assessment of Coproduction in Atlanta
Coproduction is not a new concept, as it has been recognized in academic and practitioner circles since the 1970s. Its popularity subsided in the 1990s and 2000s, but in recent…
Public Administration: Prioritizing the Process
Executive Summary Sustainable development is often a difficult concept to grasp, especially considering, as most practitioners can attest, public administration is a domain with very few absolute answers and even…
Sustainability Through Personalized Medicine: Where Health and Technology Collide
Executive Summary In the ten years since the first human genome was sequenced, the cost of genomic sequencing has plummeted, and the field of personalized medicine is positioned to change…
When the Son Becomes Smarter Than the Father: Reversing the Direction of Learning
We are used to the old-established directions of learning process. Iron channels of learning, as similar to Weber’s iron cages, are hard to change. They are backed up with a…
Taking the Future Seriously: Towards a More Sustainable Highway Transportation System
Executive Summary America’s transportation infrastructure is strained to the point of limited functionality. Highways are a critical component of the U.S. transportation infrastructure, and achieving a sustainable highway transportation system…
Soft-Tech Solutions Improving Local Sustainability in the U.S.
As a part of our limited series featuring the work of our 2013 Founders Forum Fellows, here is a sampling of one of our fellows’ reports. To read the full…
Limited Series on Founders Forum Fellows’ Research
For the next few weeks, PA TIMES online will publish the work of each of our 2013 Founders Forum Fellows. Two new pieces will be posted each week alongside our…
Making Broadbanding Work in State Government
In the late 1990s, Georgia implemented state civil service reforms aimed at improving government efficiency and effectiveness. In 2001, Florida implemented similar reforms. Both Georgia and Florida’s reforms were considered…
Pitfalls and Promises: How to Set Competitive Compensation
Recent front page controversies involving excessive pay for nonprofit executives have brought the issue of nonprofit executive compensation under scrutiny. Stories like the ousting of former United Way of the…