Author: Jess Ferko
Institutional Partner News
July 12, 2019
Alice Rivlin: A Patriot Who Championed Good Government
Alice Rivlin’s death on May 14 may have gone unnoticed in some circles amid news of Trump tariffs, the banning of facial-recognition technology in San Francisco, and reports of financial irregularities at the National Rifle Association. Even the next day’s New York Times obituary page did not carry her death as its lead story, as comedian Tim […]
Institutional Partner News
June 24, 2019
PPS Releases Public Service Leadership Model
This week, the Partnership for Public Service released the Public Service Leadership Model, which identifies the core values leaders must prioritize, and the critical competencies they must master to achieve their agencies’ missions and desired impact. The model identifies four key leadership competencies that government leaders can use to best serve our country in the […]
Fellows in the News
June 16, 2019
RFG Fellow Tom Babington Quoted in The Washington Post on Trump’s Global Effort to Help Women in Developing World
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the president and a senior White House adviser, announced a new global effort [in February] to help 50 million women in the developing world by 2025. “This new initiative will for the first time coordinate America’s commitment to one of the most undervalued resources in the developing world — the […]
Impact Stories
November 18, 2019
NAPA 2019 Fall Meeting
RFG sponsored a session at this year's National Academy of Public Administration 2019 Fall Meeting, "Improving the Development of Public Administrators for Global Work in the 21st Century" focused on how we can develop public administrators to be ready for global work and where there is still work to be done.
Impact Stories
September 30, 2019
RFG sponsors 17th annual PPIA Public Service Expo
On July 12th more than more than 600 registered attendees and 80 exhibitors attended the PPIA Public Service Expo. The Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) is a not-for-profit that has been supporting efforts to increase diversity in public service for 39 years. PPIA believes that our society is best served by public managers, policy makers, and community leaders who represent diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Institutional Partner News
July 12, 2019
In an Astonishing Turn, George Soros and Charles Koch Team Up to End US ‘Forever War’ Policy
Besides being billionaires and spending much of their fortunes to promote pet causes, the leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers have little in common. They could be seen as polar opposites. Soros is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal. The Koch brothers are fire-breathing right-wingers who dream of cutting taxes and dismantling government. […]
Institutional Partner News
July 12, 2019
Agile Problem Solving in Government
The Opportunity Project (TOP), a program hosted by the U.S. Census Bureau at the U.S. Department of Commerce, has for several years served as a catalyst in adapting agile techniques to solve complex agency mission problems, through a process that brings together agencies, industry, and citizens. TOP works with Federal government agencies to identify significant […]
Fellows in the News
June 16, 2019
West Working in Netherlands on Energy Transition for Industry
Kira West (UMD, Class of 2012) is beginning work as a researcher studying the energy transition for the industrial sector at the Energy Research Center of the Organization for Applied Scientific Research in the Netherlands. The institution is funded by the Dutch government, and has a public-service oriented mission of creating innovation to benefit society in a […]
Institutional Partner News
June 16, 2019
Maxwell School Ranks Number One for Public Affairs in 2020
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University is once again ranked #1 in the nation for graduate education in public affairs, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report reputational survey. This year, the Maxwell School shares the #1 ranking with Indiana University Bloomington. Maxwell has consistently ranked among the […]
Fellows in the News
June 16, 2019
RFG Fellow Tucker Boyce to Tour Europe on Nuclear Safeguards
Tucker Boyce (UMD, Class of 2020) was selected to participate in the International Nuclear Facilities Experience program, which is funded by a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) grant to Texas A&M University and Argonne National Laboratory. He will travel to Europe for the program with a group of graduate students and national laboratory employees. Their […]