Below is an excerpt from the recently published book, The Intersector: How the Public, Nonprofit, and Private Sectors Can Address America’s Challenges edited by Daniel P. Gitterman and Neil Britto.
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Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin.
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The text below is from the BETTER Project and can be found here. This work is a set of three publications published by the IBM Center for the Business of
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Few republics in the history of human civilization have ever come so close and fallen so far from the ideal of “liberty and justice for all” as the United States.
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The response to the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted both strengths and weaknesses in the USA’s ability to respond to novel global infectious disease threats and, undoubtedly, will be the
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Note: This is an excerpt of the article, which was originally published in the State and Local Government Review. The piece has been edited for conciseness. Two out of the
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Federalism is integral to our democracy. Our decentralized governance system—distributed across multiple layers of government—stands like a building always under construction, a constant work in progress, functioning on a usually
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COVID-19 has fundamentally shifted the way local governments have approached service delivery, likely creating impacts that will endure long after we have administered the last vaccine. The financial strain and
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To a degree unprecedented in recent American history, the environment, especially but not limited to climate change, has moved to the front rank of our public policy concerns. Even more
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In a typical year, the federal government provides over $700 billion in grants to other levels of government, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations that provide critical services to individuals and families. The
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The COVID-19 crisis has drawn increased attention to government data, and to the ability to quickly link important data sets across diverse sources. Certainly, there have been some disappointments in
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The debate over COVID-19 aid for state and local government revealed a broad range of opinions that were only partially informed by the facts. Lacking complete information about the history
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