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Managing Volunteers: The HR Challenge
For many public entities, attracting, selecting, developing, motivating and retaining volunteers is essential to the mission at hand, especially in times of fiscal stress. Such fiscal woes have created a sense of…
The Human Side of Policy
It is far too easy for those of us who are “policy wonks” to forget that policy decisions ultimately affect real people—often in ways that are more painful than we…
The Budget as an Operations Plan
As mentioned in a previous column, one of the criteria upon which the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) critiques budgets for the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award is that the budget…
Balancing Dependence and Sovereignty
A Review of the Context Despite having to manage and make policy as independent sovereignties, public managers in the Anglophone Caribbean are now being united around the common concern of…
Whose Sustainable World? Choosing Hope in Creating a Sustainable World with Indigenous Populations
The relationship we have with our environment helps us to define our view of a sustainable world. When we set about creating a sustainable world the first thing we must…
Rachel Carson: A Legacy of Conservation and Sustainability
Introduction The impact of U.S. environmental policy is well documented. As a result, my monthly column shifts from a public policy focus to the role of an individual public servant:…
Clinging to Solutions for Yesterday’s Problems
Last month’s column described a decentralized approach to budget management, where operating staff are given both authority and responsibility over their financial resources. On the surface it seems like a…
Local Governments and Sustainability: The Power of Public Goods
Public goods are what governments produce every day on behalf of their citizens. The government produces them because the market cannot or because a society decides that all citizens should…
I Wish We Had Something That Would Help Us Share Information Better…. Oh Wait, We Do. Fusion Centers!
Nearly a month after the terrorist attacks in Boston, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., made a claim that if timely, appropriate action was taken by the U.S. government we could have…
Creating a Sustainable Community in Fernandina Beach, Florida
Fernandina Beach, located on Amelia Island, is a small 12 square mile city on the Atlantic Ocean in Northeast Florida with a population of 11,500 people. The city has an…
The Nonprofit Leader’s Big Break
The role of the nonprofit is in a transition, especially for those who seek to lead within this world. For the first time in modern history, opportunities to lead within…
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