The Urban Institute published a feature on the GPL's Permanent Supportive Housing project in Denver. The feature explains how former Program Director Tyler Jaeckel and other stakeholders helped the City set up a social impact bond to build 160 new units of housing for the homeless and includes quotes from residents and photos of their new homes. Read the feature ...
Houston Public Media wrote a piece highlighting Harris County's Holistic Alternative Responder Team program, or HART, which plans to send public health staff instead of law enforcement to nonviolent calls involving issues like mental health, homelessness, and substance abuse. Read the...
In the Harvard Gazette, GPL Assistant Director Ana Billingsley breaks down how to translate an appetite for changing the justice system into a reality, with teachings from her work in Harris County, TX. Read the ...
Much like the private sector, many governments have begun to integrate environmental, social, and governance considerations into all their functions, and procurement is no...
Have you ever wondered whether your customer departments and other internal stakeholders are satisfied with the services and solutions they receive from the Purchasing Office?
Managing Director of Procurement and Economic Mobility
Kailey Burger is the Managing Director of the Procurement and Economic Mobility Practice at the GPL. In this capacity, she oversees the GPL's work on the...
The GPL is helping the City of Los Angeles create a formalized outcomes-oriented strategic procurement system that aims to modernize and improve the results of their contracting process. Currently, the City has a decentralized procurement system, which has contributed to departments often not achieving top results from their contracted dollars.
GPL Program Director Hanna Azemati was a guest speaker at the Innovations in Evidence conference in Regina, Canada from November 15-16, 2018. The event convened international leaders and innovators to share emerging trends, lessons learned, and insights into how to overcome challenges facing policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in advancing and implementing evidence-informed policy making. Select conference speakers, including Hanna, were also invited to provide written recommendations on Canada’s path forward in building the infrastructure to support evidence-...
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) shared a press release, announcing partnerships with two social service agencies to provide community-based voluntary services for at-risk children and families. Governor Chris Sununu said, “The announcement of these two partnerships, which will serve to provide voluntary services, is yet another step forward in ensuring we continue to meet that commitment and in ensuring support services are readily accessible to New Hampshire families directly within their communities.” Read the full...
The Associated Press wrote a piece covering the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement of partnerships with two social service agencies to provide community-based voluntary services for at-risk children and families. Read the story, the press release, and more about the...
The City of Portland worked with Harvard Kennedy School's Government Performance Lab to make practical changes to a critical procurement process, establishing a more strategic approach to technology contracting. Via video conference, city staff from Procurement Services and the Bureau of Technology Services Check share their experience applying results-driven contracting strategies to improve the City's technology procurement process.... Read more about City of Portland: Results-Driven Contracting for Technology
