Navigating Nonprofit Scandals: Audit’s Role in Accountability.

 Center for Accountability & Performance (Free Webinar, Tuesday, Aug 12, 1 p.m. Eastern)

This webinar will focus on the critical role of audit teams in ensuring nonprofit accountability and effective crisis response in the wake of scandals and controversies. Attendees will develop a better understanding of stakeholder collaboration, navigating tight deadlines, tracing internal control breakdowns to their root causes and applying these skills using real-world examples from San Francisco and Austin.

Dallas Implements Priority-Based Budgeting

IMessenger

Dallas City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert released the proposed balanced biennial budget for FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27 to the Mayor and City Council today, Friday, August 8. This year’s budget is focused on Investing in Priority Programs and People.

Large Language Models Transforming Evidence-Based Policy-Making

PATimes

Artificial Intelligence will become a very useful “what if and why” co-pilot in the multi-layered, multiple chessboard challenge that public administration faces every day… if it includes a key component: the ability to explain itself. 

Four Ways Leaders can Measure & Monitor Progress

PuMP Academy (Webinar: Wed., Oct 1, 4 p.m. Eastern)

This webcast will go over the four ways that leaders can monitor progress, using a framework to help find the right balance between measuring activity versus impact, and measuring effort versus leverage.

Linking Budgeting Knowledge to Service Delivery Performance in a Philippine City Government

Psychology & Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Findings revealed a moderate positive and statistically significant relationship between budgeting knowledge and service delivery performance, with officials showing strong skills in budget preparation and authorization but encountering challenges in budget execution. The study highlights the importance of capacity-building programs, mentorship, and evidence-based budgeting to enhance local governance.