Results for America’s Post

"VOICES FROM THE GFOA" During the recent Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Annual Conference we at Barrett and Greene Inc. had the opportunity to videotape eight attendees speaking forthrightly about their areas of expertise, and we’ve been posting them weekly. This week we visit with Haley Kadish, who works on the local practice team for Results for America, a national nonprofit. She works with cities and counties to help them to invest in solutions to their problems for which there is solid evidence that they work. “The challenge that we see is that currently governments spend over $1 trillion a year on solutions and programs that are meant to advance economic mobility. Unfortunately, only about two percent of that is going toward evidence-based practice, so that means that less than two percent . . . is going to programs that have been proven to work.” As Kadish explains, there are three big levers for which evidence-based solutions are vital: budgeting, direct services and grant making/contracting. To view the full video, in which Kadish expands on this issue, click here: https://lnkd.in/gykDAkpH Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Chris Morrill Timothy Martin, CDMP Liz Farmer Justin Marlowe Rudy de Leon Dinglas, Ph.D. Chris Morrill Chris Fabian Dustin Lanier, CPPO Cheryl Burnett Zachary Markovits Patrick Carter Sarah Needler Maia Jachimowicz John M. Kamensky Michael Jacobson Alexander Kroll Jenny Wong Maria Aristigueta Cheriene Floyd