Basing choices on reason and metrics allows leaders to explain and defend their actions and gain support.

Learn how residents are speaking about it – and how you should.

While each community’s digital public engagement process varies, these key principles can guide the process in an ethical manner.

Cities across the globe demonstrated innovative and intuitive approaches to engaging their residents during the pandemic, setting an example for local governments in the future.

A digital government presence is more important than ever. 

How Bucksport, Maine, engaged all of their citizens to identify what they love most about their community, the future they want for it, and how to achieve it.

NLC program helps smaller communities compete for grant funding.

Information on how NLC's Local Infrastructure Hub provides guidance and training for local governments to access and optimize federal funding opportunities.

Identifying the three key disruptive forces that affect local governments: national politics filtering in local governance, technology/social media, and social issues.