Online Public Management Resources
The Public Manager has compiled the following links to Web sites sponsored
by organizations of interest to practitioners, researchers, and
students. Each site is annotated with a brief description of its contents
and potential audience.
If
you are aware of additional Web sites that might be of interest to your
colleagues in the world of public management, please send the address
or link to the Publisher.
Federal Government Web Sites
Federal Government Council Web Sites
State and Local Government Related Web Sites
Professional Guidance Web Sites
Research Institutes and Professional Associations
Web Sites
Nonprofit Organizations Web Sites
Federal Government
www.usa.gov
The mother lode
of federal Web sites; from here you can search all federal government Web sites
for information.
www.opm.gov
www.usajobs.gov
Sponsored
by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), these Web sites contain information
about federal employment. USAJOBS is updated daily with information about
employment federal opportunities.
www.gsa.gov
Sponsored by the U.S. General
Services Administration, this Web site’s Quick Links are particularly
useful and provide access to such varied items as the Federal Acquisition
Regulation, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, and per diem
rates.
http://thomas.loc.gov
Thomas is the
Library of Congress’s Web site, which allows you to search for Public
Laws and legislative history, current legislative action, nominations
and treaties, and information about Congress. It also contains a link
to the U.S. Code.
www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
This
National Archives and Records Administration Web site allows you to search
the U.S. Code.
www.whitehouse.gov/omb
This
Web site contains circulars, bulletins, and memoranda issued by the U.S. Office
of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as information about and results
from the Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART). The PART was developed
to assess and improve program performance so that the federal government
can achieve better results. A PART review helps identify a program’s
strengths and weaknesses to inform funding and management decisions aimed
at making the program more effective.
www.results.gov
This Web site is
a repository for information about The President’s Management Agenda.
It describes the initiatives and includes the Executive Branch Management
Scorecard, which shows the status and progress rankings for federal departments
and agencies.
www.gao.gov
The Web site of the U.S.
Government Accountability Office (GAO) contains numerous documents reporting
GAO findings.
www.cbo.gov
The Congressional Budget
Office’s Web site provides information about the federal budget.
www.grad.usda.gov
The Graduate
School of the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers career-related and
continuing education courses to professionals and federal, state, and local
employees throughout the country. The school annually enrolls 200,000 students
in nearly 1,000 courses, which are available in a variety of subjects and
convenient formats.
Federal Government Council
The Federal Government sponsors several interagency councils that publish
information of interest to different communities:
www.cfoc.gov
The Chief Financial Officers
Council includes information and links of interest to financial managers.
www.cioc.gov
The Chief Information
Officers Council includes information and links of interest regarding information
technology.
www.ignet.gov
The Web site of the Inspector
General community contains information about auditing, evaluation and inspections,
and investigations, and contains links to organizations involved in these
activities.
www.chcoc.gov
The Chief Human Capital
Officers Council maintains information of interest to human resources professionals.
State and Local Government
These Web sites may be of particular interest to practitioners in state
and local governments.
www.nga.org
The National Governors Association
(NGA) is the collective voice of the nation's governors and one of Washington,
DC's, most respected public policy organizations. NGA provides governors
and their senior staff members with services that range from representing
states on Capitol Hill and before the administration on key federal issues
to developing policy reports on innovative state programs and hosting networking
seminars for state government executive branch officials. The NGA Center
for Best Practices focuses on state innovations and best practices on issues
that range from education and health to technology, welfare reform, and
the environment. NGA also provides management and technical assistance
to both new and incumbent governors.
www.ncsl.org.
The National Conference
of State Legislatures (NCSL) was founded in 1975 with the conviction
that legislative service is one of democracy's worthiest pursuits. NCSL
is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of
the nation's fifty states, commonwealths , and territories. NCSL provides
research, technical assistance, and opportunities for policymakers to exchange
ideas on the most pressing state issues.
www.csg.org
The Council of State Governments
(CSG) provides a network for identifying and sharing ideas with state
leaders. CSG builds leadership skills to improve decision making; advocates
multi-state problem solving and partnerships; interprets changing national
and international conditions to prepare states for the future; and promotes
the sovereignty of the states and their role in the American federal system.
www.nasbo.org
The National Association
of State Budget Officers (NASBO), founded in 1945, serves as the professional
organization for all state budget officers of the fifty states and U.S.
territories. NASBO is an independent association, with membership consisting
of the heads of state budget offices, state finance departments, and their
staffs.
www.transportation.org
The American
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan association representing highway and transportation departments
in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It represents
all five transportation modes: air, highways, public transportation, rail,
and water. Its primary goal is to foster the development, operation, and maintenance
of an integrated national transportation system.
www.taxadmin.org
The Federation
of Tax Administrators (FTA) was organized in 1937 to improve the quality
of state tax administration by providing services to state tax authorities
and administrators. These services include research and information exchange,
training, and intergovernmental and interstate coordination. The federation
also represents the interests of state tax administrators before federal
policymakers where appropriate.
www.mtc.gov
The Multistate Tax Commission
is an organization of state governments that works with taxpayers to administer,
equitably and efficiently, tax laws that apply to multistate and multinational
enterprises. Created by an interstate
compact, the commission encourages tax practices that reduce administrative
costs for taxpayers and states alike; develops and recommends uniform
laws and regulations that promote proper state taxation of multistate and
multinational enterprises; encourages business compliance with state
tax laws through education, negotiation, and enforcement; and protects
state fiscal authority in Congress and the courts.
www.nasact.org
The National Association
of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT) is an organization
for state officials who deal with the financial management of state government.
NASACT's membership comprises officials who have been elected or
appointed to the office of state auditor, state comptroller, or state treasurer
in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
www.aphsa.org
The American Public
Human Services Association (APHSA) is a nonprofit, bipartisan organization
of individuals and agencies concerned with human services. Our members
include all state and many territorial human service agencies, more than
150 local agencies, and several thousand individuals who work in or otherwise
have an interest in human service programs.
APHSA educates Members of Congress, the media, and the broader public
on what is happening in the states around welfare, child welfare, health
care reform, and other issues involving families and the elderly.
www.stateline.org
Funded entirely
by The Pew Charitable Trusts as a public service, Stateline.org has published
online every weekday except holidays since January 25, 1999. This site, staffed
entirely by professional journalists, was envisioned primarily
as a resource for newsmen and newswomen who cover state government. Using
computer technology as a delivery vehicle, staeline.org arms these news-gatherers
with timely tips and research material on state policy innovations and
trends, enabling them to make their reporting more informative and useful
to consumers. Stateline.org’s intent is to help nourish public debate
of important state-level issues such as healthcare, tax and budget policy,
the environment, welfare reform, and other issues that in recent years have
not gotten the media attention they deserve.
www.governing.com
The Web site
of Governing magazine contains resources for states and localities. Governing is
a monthly magazine whose primary audience is state and local government
officials: governors, legislators, mayors, city managers, council members,
and other elected, appointed, and career officials. They are the men and
women who set policy for and manage the day-to-day operations of cities,
counties, and states, as well as such governmental bodies as school boards
and special districts.
www.cbpp.org
The Web site of the Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities, an organization that focuses on federal
and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low-
and moderate-income families and individuals.
Professional Guidance
www.aicpa.gov
The Web site of the American
Association of Certified Public Accountants.
www.theiia.org
The Web site of the
Institute of Internal Auditors.
www.eval.org
The Web site of the American
Evaluation Association.
www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation
The
University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Extension Service offers
useful evaluation guidance and online training.
Research
Institutes and Professional Associations
These Web sites contain information about a variety of topics related
to public administration.
www.napawash.org
The National Academy
of Public Administration is an independent, nonpartisan organization chartered
by Congress to assist federal, state, and local governments in improving
their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability. For more than 35 years,
the academy has met the challenge of cultivating excellence in the management
and administration of government agencies.
www.aspanet.org
Since 1939, the
American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) has been the nation's
most respected society representing all forums in the public service
arena. ASPA
advocates for greater effectiveness in government as agents of goodwill
and professionalism and publishers of democratic journalism at its very
best, and as purveyors of progressive theory and practice and providers
of global citizenship. By embracing new ideas and addressing key public
service issues, and promoting change at the local and international
levels, ASPA hopes to enhance the quality of lives worldwide.
www.feiaa.org
The Federal Executive
Institute (FEI) in Charlottesville, Virginia, is the federal government's
premier executive development center. FEI was established by presidential
order in l968 and is operated by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management.
The Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association (FEIAA) is the exclusive
network of graduates of FEI residential programs. FEIAA enjoys very close
cooperative relationships with the FEI and OPM, while maintaining its independence
as a nonprofit corporation. Since its founding twenty-eight years ago,
FEIAA's main goals have been to support and strengthen FEI, to provide
executive development opportunities (such as the Executive Forum) for its
members, to promote excellence in the public service, and to represent
the views and interests of its members.
www.heritage.org
Founded in 1973,
the Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute, a think
tank, whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies
based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual
freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
www.rockinst.org
The Nelson A.
Rockefeller Institute of Government conducts studies and special projects
to assist government and enhance the capacity of states and localities
to meet critical challenges. Through its conferences, research, and publications,
the institute works with the best experts and top officials at all levels
of government to forge creative solutions to public problems. The work
of the Institute focuses on the role of state governments in the American
federal system. While many of the Institute's projects are comparative
and multistate in nature, the institute maintains a continuing emphasis
on assisting New York State and its local governments.
www.aei.org
The American Enterprise
Institute (AEI) for Public Policy Research is dedicated to preserving and
strengthening the foundations of freedom—limited government, private enterprise,
vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy
and national defense—through scholarly research, open debate, and publications.
Founded in 1943 and located in Washington, DC, AEI is one of America's
largest think tanks.
www.brookings.edu
The Brookings
Institution , one of Washington's oldest think tanks, is an independent,
nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, and public education
with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance, and metropolitan
policy.
www.cato.org
The Cato Institute was
founded in 1977 as a nonprofit public policy research foundation headquartered
in Washington, DC. The institute is named for Cato’s Letters,
a series of libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philosophical foundation
for the American Revolution. The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters
of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American
principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and
peace. Toward that goal, the institute strives to achieve greater involvement
of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the
proper role of government.
www.afsa.org
The American Foreign Service
Association (AFSA), established in 1924, is the professional association
of the U. S. Foreign Service. With over 12,000 dues-paying members, AFSA
represents 23,000 active and retired Foreign Service employees of the
U.S. Department of State and Agency for International Development (AID), as
well as smaller groups in the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), U.S. and Foreign
Commercial Service (FCS), and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).
AFSA's principal missions are to enhance the effectiveness of the Foreign
Service, to protect the professional interests of its members, to ensure
the maintenance of high professional standards for career diplomats
and political appointees, and to promote understanding of the critical
role of the Foreign Service in promoting America's national security and
economic prosperity.
www.agacgfm.org
Since 1950, the
Association of Government Accountants (AGA) has been
the educational organization dedicated to the enhancement of public financial
management. AGA serves the professional interests of financial managers—from local, state and federal governments, as well as public accounting
firms—responsible for effectively using billions of dollars and other
monetary resources every day.
www.ipma-hr.org
The International
Personnel Management Association-Human Resources (IPMA-HR) is an organization
that represents the interests of over 7,500 human resource professionals
at the federal, state, and local levels of government. IPMA-HR members
include all levels of public-sector HR professionals; its goal is to
provide information and assistance to help HR professionals increase their
job performance and overall agency function by providing cost effective
products, services, and educational opportunities. IPMA-HR’s federal
section is of particular interest to federal managers.
www.execwomeningov.org
Executive
Women in Government (EWG) is a nonprofit professional organization of women
employed by the federal government at the Senior Executive Service, GS-15,
or equivalent military rank; political appointees requiring confirmation;
and elected officials. EWG is incorporated in the District of Columbia.
www.fedmanagers.org
The Federal
Managers Association (FMA) is the largest and oldest federal employee
organization representing the interests of the nearly 200,000 managers,
supervisors, and executives. FMA advocates excellence in public service
through effective management and professionalism, as well as the active
representation of its members’ interests and concerns. FMA advances
its mission through consultation in the executive branch and advocacy in
Congress, professional development programs, and informative publications
for networking among its members.
www.fedphy.com
The Federal Physicians
Association was founded in 1979 by a group of physicians concerned with
the worsening situation of the physician in the federal government and
the impact of this situation on the people served by such physicians. The
group’s goals are to improve the health of those served by the federal
civil service physicians; to improve the practice of medicine within the
federal government; and to improve the working conditions and benefits
of federal civil service physicians.
www.actgov.org
This Web site is sponsored
jointly by the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) and the American Council
for Technology (ACT). IAC is a broadly based organization of information
technology (IT) professionals representing private-sector organizations
that provide information resources management products and services to
government. Member firms include producers of hardware, software publishers,
systems integrators, and telecommunications and professional services companies.
As a part of ACT, IAC provides a direct link to federal government IT executives.
The purpose of the IAC is to enable its member firms to work more effectively
in the government marketplace by fostering improved communications and
understanding between government and industry. IAC members range from Fortune
500 companies to single practitioners.
www.naausa.org
The National Association
of Assistant U.S. Attorneys was founded in 1992 by a small number of Assistant
United States Attorneys from various judicial districts across the nation.
Chartered in the District of Columbia, NAAUSA is a professional association
dedicated to promoting, protecting, and serving the common interests of
this nation's frontline criminal and civil litigators. Today, NAAUSA has
a national membership of more than 1,600 Assistant United States Attorneys.
NAAUSA's members are professional men and women of integrity, loyal to
the Department of Justice, and dedicated to carrying out its mission of
serving the cause of justice.
www.nafv.org
The National Association
of Federal Veterinarians (NAFV) has served federally employed veterinarians
for more than 80 years. Formed in 1918 during a meeting of the American
Veterinary Medical Association in Boston by a small group of veterinarians
with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
(USDA's) Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), it has grown to almost 1,300
active members. As an association of supervisors and managers, the NAFV
has an official consultative relationship with the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration. It is recognized as the representative
organization for veterinarians employed by the federal government.
www.narfe.org
Since 1921, the National
Association of Retired Federal Employees’ (NARFE) mission has remained
the same, to protect and improve the retirement benefits of federal retirees,
employees, and their families.
www.naspaa.org
The National Association
of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration is an institutional membership
organization that exists to promote excellence in public-service education. The
membership includes U.S. university programs in public affairs, public
policy, public administration, and nonprofit management.
www.pmag.org
The Presidential Management Alumni Group (PMAG) was
organized in 1981 to advance the professionalism of the public service
and augment the educational and career development of persons who have
served in or assisted the PMI program.
www.promanager.org
The Professional
Managers Association, formed in 1981 by Internal Revenue Service managers,
is a national membership association representing the interests of professional
managers, management officials, and nonbargaining unit employees in the federal
government.
www.theroundtable.org
The
Public Employees Roundtable (PER) at the Council for Excellence in Government
is a nonprofit, nonpartisan coalition of organizations representing nearly
2 million public employees working together to better inform citizens about
the quality of people in government and the value of the services they
provide; encourage excellence and esprit de corps within government; and
promote interest in public-service careers.
www.excelgov.org
The Council for Excellence
in Government works to improve the performance of government at all levels
and government's place in the lives and esteem of American citizens. The
council helps to create stronger public-sector leadership and management,
driven by innovation and focused on results, and increased citizen confidence
and participation in government, through better understanding of government
and its role.
www.effective-change.org
The
Coalition for Effective Change (CEC) was formed in 1993 as a nonpartisan
alliance of associations representing current and retired federal managers,
executives, and professionals. CEC provides a channel for these public
employees to contribute to the success of reinventing government.
www.seniorexecs.org
The Senior
Executives Association (SEA) is a nonprofit professional association that
promotes ethical and dynamic public service by fostering an outstanding
career executive corps, advocates the interests of career federal executives
(active and retired), and provides information and services to SEA
members.
www.ourpublicservice.org
The
Partnership for Public Service works to make the government an employer
of choice for talented, dedicated Americans through educational outreach,
research, legislative advocacy, and hands-on partnerships with agencies
on workforce management issues. It seeks to inspire a new generation
to serve and to help build a federal workforce that will meet the challenges
of the twenty-first century. The partnership’s Web site contains information
useful to potential federal job applicants and also to federal managers,
policy officials, and others interested in transforming the federal workplace
into one characterized by high-performing, committed employees.
www.govexec.com
Government Executive magazine’s
Web site, GovExec.com, is government's business news daily and a useful
Web site for federal managers and executives. Government Executive in
its print incarnation is a monthly business magazine serving senior executives
and managers in the federal government's departments and agencies.
Nonprofit Organizations
www.fdncenter.org
Founded in 1956,
the Foundation Center is dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers,
researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. The center's
mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about
U.S. philanthropy by
- collecting, organizing, and communicating information on U.S. philanthropy;
- conducting and facilitating research on trends in the field;
- providing education and training on the grantseeking process; and
- ensuring public access to information and services through its Web site,
print, and electronic publications, five library/learning centers, and
a national network of Cooperating Collections.
www.afpnet.org
For more than 40 years,
the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) has been the standard-bearer
for professionalism in fundraising.
www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf
The
Kellogg Foundation’s Web site offers the Logic Model Development
Guide for program planning and evaluation. This is a 72-page document.