September 16, 2025
This morning’s Keynote address delivered by Lisbeth Schorr, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy, focused on having to think much more inclusively about evidence. There was a time when “trying hard was good enough.” That time is past. Data now needs to be used to 1) to improve programs; 2) prove to [...]
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September 15, 2025
A crowded Grand Ballroom at the Governor Hotel was the setting for the opening remarks at the 2011 Convening in Portland, Orgeon. The Honorable Sam Adams, Mayor, City of Portland addressed a full house - 83 different communities from Waxahachie to Ann Arbor. Said Adams “you can’t be a smart city with a dumb system [...]
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