Scott Cordes, St. Paul’s Director of Innovation and Budget, discusses how the Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities initiative is working in St. Paul, Minnesota. Read more in Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
Through the What Works Cities Initiative, GPL Assistant Director Jen North and Senior Advisor Greg Wass worked with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota to engage vendors, increase the number of vendor responses, and improve competition. Read more about how the city is building on these efforts to increase its vendor diversity and better understand why it wasn’t adequately reaching small, women- or minority-owned businesses. Read more.
In a commentary for Governing's Better, Faster, Cheaper blog, GPL Program Director Danielle Cerny describes how the GPL assisted Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services in using procurements and contracts as strategic tools to translate outcome goals into practice....
"The city of Seattle, Washington has been changing the way they deal with homeless populations, and gathering data to drive some evidenced-based solutions. Now, with clear incentives and data collection, employees have a path forward for helping the homeless." Journalist Rebecca Gale discusses the GPL’s What Works Cities project to improve homelessness outcomes through results-driven contracting in Seattle. ...
CS Monitor: Pay for Success Social Impact Bonds Help Train Ex-Convicts https://govlab.hks.harvard.edu/news/pay-success-social-impact-bonds-help-train-ex-convicts https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2014/0107/Pay-for-success-social-impact-bonds-help-train-ex-convicts Read more about CS Monitor: Pay for Success Social Impact Bonds Help Train Ex-Convicts
