Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL)
Focused on all levels of local government (from analysts to mayors; librarians to planners; and everyone in between), ELGL’s mission is to engage the brightest minds in local government by providing timely and relevant content through podcasts, blogs, webinars, social media and conference gathering, with the objective of fostering authentic and meaningful connections that are grounded in practices of equity and inclusion.
2022_ Building Multiracial Cities
By the year 2045, the United States will be a majority of people of color in society. 43% of US millennials are people of color and 47% of GenZ's are people of color, and children of color now make up the majority of students in public schools in the United States. Yet as the United States becomes more diverse, racial inequality is widening and hardening. ...AARP Livable Communities Cohort
Approximately 45 million Americans are age 65 or older. By 2030, that number will reach 73 million Americans. At that point, fully one in five Americans will be older than 65. By 2034, the United States will — for the first time ever — be a country comprised of older adults than of children. In this eight-week cohort, participants explored how changing ...Anti-Racism and Local Gov: Equity as an Experience
Local governments throughout the nation are understanding the critical importance of creating robust equity and inclusion efforts with communities of color at the forefront. Equity transformation efforts are a major undertaking. Participants focused on refining and evaluating their organization's current your equity efforts. In this cohort participants ...Arts-Based Community Engagement Cohort
How we can partner with artists and culture-bearers to increase the power of municipal engagement processes? Many have not lived through a time in history when engaging the community in critical conversations has been both so hard – and so needed – all at the same time. But if there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have also seen an ...Budgeting for Resiliency Local Gov Cohort
Through Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) and the development + application of program-level data, local governments are armed with the data needed to make and communicate the difficult organizational decisions that have a huge impact on every citizen's welfare and influence the resiliency of every organization. We will take a “Learn → Do” approach to ...Citizen Engagement Wizardry - ELGL Local Gov Cohort
Public input and proactive engagement can improve services, support better decision-making, and solve problems faster. Or, it can waste resources, lead to poor decisions, and create problems. What you get depends on how you engage people and how you manage the input you get. What are the issues in your community that you want to solve by having the ...ClearPoint Strategy and Performance Management Cohort
The 2021 Strategy and Performance Management cohort is a three-month program that helps cities, counties, and towns draft and implement a strategic plan quickly. This rapid-learning framework will help local governments with limited resources quickly build a strategic plan – a long-term vision of where they want to be in the future, as well as the steps ...Community Surveying for Equity and Inclusion
Within this cohort opportunity, local government professionals collectively collaborated to better understand how to work with and receive feedback from diverse communities. This cohort learned and discussed the most effective ways to get more participation from a wider range of residents specifically discussing the topics of equity and inclusion. Participants ...Creative Placemaking Project Bootcamp
After getting a broad overview of the field and how projects come together, join this six-week weekly gathering focused on cohort building and project scoping. Come learn first-hand how these projects come together and how you can create a strong project strategy grounded in best practices and tied to national examples.Data Analysis 101
Data Analysis 101: six weeks, Jan 15 – March 1 2021 ELGL is excited to announce two 2021 Data Analysis Cohorts, a pair of six-week skills-based cohorts for local governments interested in refreshing their basic data analysis skills or exploring the technologies available for data analysis work.
