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    Press Release: Gov. Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Hancock Focus on Improving Social Issues

    January 1, 2013
    Press Release: Gov. Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Hancock Focus on Improving Social Issues
    https://govlab.hks.harvard.edu/news/gov-hickenlooper-and-denver-mayor-hancock-focus-improving-socia-issues
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    DC Water and Sewer Authority Launches Nation's First Environmental Impact Bond

    September 29, 2016

    On September 29, the DC Water and Sewer Authority issued the nation’s first Environmental Impact Bond. This $25 million bond issuance funded the initial green infrastructure installation in DC Water’s Clean Rivers Project – a project that aims to reduce combined sewage overflows (CSOs) into the Anacostia River, Potomac River, and Rock Creek tributaries. ...

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    Denver Post: Denver Homelessness Program Funded by Bank, Large Foundations, Among Others

    January 1, 2016
    Denver Post: Denver Homelessness Program Funded by Bank, Large Foundations, Among Others
    https://govlab.hks.harvard.edu/news/denver-homelessness-program-funded-bank-large-foundations-among-others
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    The Denver Channel: Denver Using $8.6M Loan to Build Apartments for Chronically Homeless People

    January 1, 2016
    The Denver Channel: Denver Using $8.6M Loan to Build Apartments for Chronically Homeless People
    https://govlab.hks.harvard.edu/news/denver-using-86m-loan-build-apartments-chronically-homeless-people
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    What Excellence Looks Like in Local Government

    March 30, 2017

    In a recent brief, HKS Professor Stephen Goldsmith describes the GPL's results-driven contracting work with the Boston Department of Public Works as one of his "case studies of platinum practices" highlighting jurisdictions that have made dramatic progress on initiative criteria such as measuring outcomes, impacts, or cost-effectiveness of key procurements and contracts....

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    Governing: How Cities Can Get Strategic About Procurement

    July 18, 2018

    In her latest commentary for Governing’s Better, Faster, Cheaper blog, Program Director Hanna Azemati describes the GPL’s work with the city of Louisville, KY to establish a strategic procurement system. According to Louisville’s director of purchasing, this system has helped the city “elevate the importance of procurement, build trust, and earn credibility” by prioritizing, structuring, evaluating, and managing critical contracts more effectively. ...

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    North Carolina Department of Commerce: Harvard Kennedy School to Support Improvements to North Carolina Workforce Services

    June 14, 2018

    The GPL announced that the State of North Carolina will receive pro bono technical assistance. GPL Assistant Director Sarah Allin will collaborate with North Carolina Commerce’s Workforce Solutions team and a pair of local Workforce Development Boards to develop strategies for improving service delivery at NCWorks Career Centers. The ultimate goal is to create a data-informed model that can be replicated statewide to help jobseekers obtain employment, training and higher wages....

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    NH Department of Health and Human Services Press Release: NH DHHS To Receive Technical Support From Harvard University’s Kennedy School Government Performance Lab

    January 1, 2018

    NH Department of Health and Human Services Press Release: NH DHHS To Receive Technical Support From Harvard University’s Kennedy School Government Performance Lab

    https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/media/pr/2018/06142018-tech-support-dcyf.htm

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    WMUR: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services to Receive Support from Harvard to Improve Child Services

    June 14, 2018

    The GPL announced that New Hampshire's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will receive pro bono technical assistance. In particular, the GPL will assist the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) with providing consistent and effective services to children and families who need protection or are at risk of future harm and with increasing the number of children cared for by families by strengthening the recruitment and retention of foster family resources....

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    Turn to 10: Rhode Island Health Officials Promise to Keep Children Safer

    August 20, 2018

    Officials from the Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH), along with the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), presented a plan that details ways to better identify at-risk children. The presentation examined 31 incidents where children either died or almost died from the beginning of 2016 to the end of 2017. “This tells us who we need to be focusing on when we’re tending to child fatalities or near fatalities," said Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, the director of the Rhode Island Department of Health....

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    HKS Magazine: Performance Specialists - The GPL Is on a Mission to Make Government Work Better

    September 28, 2018

    The GPL was profiled in the Harvard Kennedy School alumni magazine. The piece describes how the GPL grew from a small team pioneering Pay for Success to an organization of 45 undertaking projects to improve core government operations. Read the complete feature here, and download the PDF...

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