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Promoting Collaboration and Inclusion in Land Use Planning
Through our Land Use Education Program, the Center for Public Policy at VCU’s Wilder School provides training and educational programs that help planners make decisions that are legal, fact-based, community-oriented…
Follow the Performance Metrics
Creating good measures of performance in public organizations can be tricky. If managers overemphasize quantity of output when assessing employees’ productivity, employees can grow disillusioned and let the quality of…
Volunteering During A Disaster
American’s desire to volunteer post-disaster goes back to the very founding of this nation. There are a variety of ways for volunteers to help out after a disaster has hit.…
Financial Condition and Population Decline: The Challenge in Attracting Residents
Shrinking cities are under pressure by their state governments to remain solvent. This has led to an increasing reliance on non-governmental entities to provide important community services—but is this sustainable…
Our Current Situation
As public servants, we know that we serve at the pleasure of the public agenda and that we do not serve personal agendas nor the agendas of those that are…
Political Will: An Indication For Autocracy or a Scapegoat?
Authority, vision and commitment—also known as political will—are needed in enacting reforms to public policies. Yet to what extent is political will a scapegoat? And to what extent is it…
In Search of Ethics of Character Over Conduct
Governmental ethics center on transparency with the assumption that transparency will lead to accountability. It’s not a bad goal. The problem is that good conduct is not necessarily an indicator…
Ethical Walls
We must understand ethics even when choices seem to contradict our personal beliefs or instincts, especially when working with clients and community partners. …
Pencils and Parking Tickets: The Potential of Donations-For-Fines Programs
Although they may be viewed as a novelty, recent donations-for-fines programs have the potential to simultaneously address two problematic issues: funding for K-12 education and social equity in civil fines…
Time to Get Serious about the United States National Debt (Continued)
While budget deals passed by the Senate are important in avoiding a budget shutdown, there remains structural budget issues with our national budget—mainly, how to address the ever increasing national…
Engaging Key Stakeholders When Designing Community-Based Efforts
When building support for a new or ongoing community-based effort, having a participatory process that involves the stakeholders who may be affected by or have an interest in the initiative…
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