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The Policy Issue
Five Lessons From the Paid Leave Policy Trenches
Wednesday March 11, 2020 / By Vicki Shabo
From Featured , The Policy Issue
Vicki Shabo is a Senior Fellow for Paid Leave Policy and Strategy in New America’s Better Life Lab. How to design easy-to-use and accessible programs... Read More
Putting People Front and Center in Michigan
Wednesday March 11, 2020 / By Jeremy Gantz
From Featured , The Policy Issue
The state’s Children’s Services Agency is overhauling its outdated software system, Jeremy Gantz reports—and the effort promises to free... Read More
Delivery = Policy
Wednesday March 11, 2020 / By Meegan Dugan Bassett
From Featured , The Policy Issue
Meegan Dugan Bassett, Fellow, New America Chicago A brilliant policy isn’t worth much if people can’t figure out how to benefit from it. We need to see delivery... Read More
From Past Issues
The Commons: COVID-19 2nd Edition
Thursday March 26, 2020 / By The Commons
From COVID Resources , Featured
Members of The Commons, If your inbox is anything like ours it is overflowing with other people’s ideas and inventions aimed at tracking and slowing... Read More
The Commons: COVID-19 Special Edition
Monday March 23, 2020 / By The Commons
From COVID Resources , Featured
Members of The Commons, The pandemic has dramatically changed our lives in little more than a week. Uncertainty reigns as we all grapple with new public... Read More
“Expect to take heat if you’re changing the status quo”
Wednesday February 19, 2020 / By The Commons
From The Leadership Issue
G.T. Bynum is the 40th mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In this Q&A, he shares lessons learned and advice for other innovators working on seemingly intractable... Read More
“We have an obligation to be stewards of our coworkers”
Wednesday February 19, 2020 / By The Commons
From The Leadership Issue
Ian Bassin is the executive director of Protect Democracy. In our Q&A, he explains how his team stays united and strong while working on some of the toughest... Read More
“We didn’t intend to start an organization”
Wednesday February 19, 2020 / By The Commons
From The Leadership Issue
In this interview, Leah Greenberg of Indivisible tells us how she and her team turned a volunteer army into an effective nonprofit entity—one that lets... Read More
“A space of creativity and risk-taking”: Notes from Philly’s service design team
Friday January 24, 2020 / By The Commons
From The Getting Started Issue
For this Q&A, we reached out to the PHL Service Design Studio at the City of Philadelphia. Director Liana Dragoman shared the studio’s origins,... Read More