Performance-Built Budgets

Barrett & Greene

This article summarizes a webinar focusing on the use of performance measures in the budgeting process.  It highlights the successes of the highly transparent results-oriented funding approach that is transforming the Ohio budgeting process, with examples of concrete program outcomes.

Closing the Loops

Federation of American Scientists (Amanda Girard)

Information and artifacts alone don’t necessarily facilitate learning and adaptation; strengthening federal feedback loops requires embedding translation and use into decision-making from the start. Here are six recommendations for how to do this.

Connecting Congress to Implementers

NextGov

Typically, Congress’ current mechanisms for performance feedback from those closest to implementation in the government are limited. The POPVOX Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit, based on the input of 50 federal employees pushed out of their government jobs last year, wants to change that.

WEBINAR: From Line Items to Impact: Incorporating Evidence into Budgeting (Tues., June 2, 3 p.m. Eastern)

Evidence Matters/University of Notre Dame

You’ll hear practical advice from local government leaders in San Diego County and the District of Columbia about how to get started and how to sustain momentum over time—building the internal capacity, cross-departmental partnerships, and political will needed to make evidence-informed budgeting a lasting part of how your government works.