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From Comment Cards to Continuous Listening: How Olathe Built a Proactive Customer Experience Program

Strengthening Our Connection with Alliance for Innovation Members

Building the Next Generation of Public Servants: Fort Collins Innovates Its Talent Pipeline

What Residents Want From Your Local Government Budget: National Survey Highlights Priorities, Tradeoffs, and Expectation Gaps

Alliance Members are Getting Recognized | Three AFI Members Receive 2026 ICMA Outstanding Local Government Program Awards

When Employee Voices Matter | Saline County, KS

Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement: Elk Grove’s AIM Academy

AI Is Already Here: What Fire Service Adoption Tells Us About the Future of Local Government

Collaboration Is All Well and Good, But Is It Right for Me?

From Measurement to Performance Excellence: Building Local Governments That Learn, Adapt and Improve

Five Leaders Exploring What’s Next for Local Government

Before the Breaking Point | Pre-Resilience

Case Study: Making a Splash with Smart Stewardship

Glendale Lean Academy: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement from Within

Smashing the Mental Health Stigma: How Montgomery, Ohio Turned Local Government into a Community Connector

Budgeting for AI: How local governments can avoid the token-pricing trap

The Future, By the People: Participatory Foresight for Local Government

From Drivers to Decisions: Why Strategic Foresight Is a Leadership Discipline for Innovative Cities

What the Best Strategic Foresight Companies Do – And Why it Matters for Innovative Cities

When Innovation Creates Conflict: What Ostriches, Chameleons, and Dolphins Can Teach Us

Becoming the Agentic City: How AI Can Help Local Government Work Smarter, Faster and Fairer

AI Assisted Sketches in Goodyear, AZ

Building a Better Work Week: Lessons from the Town of Little Elm, TX

Co-Responder Programs: A Growing Strategy for Safer, Healthier Communities

Leading from the Future: A Foresight Morning Before TLG 2026

When Residents Know What Their Government Is Doing, They Trust It.

Public Procurement Functions are Under Pressure to Scale

Don't Shirk Asset Management

Causal Layered Analysis: Privacy and Public Safety in Fort Collins, CO

Modernizing Performance Management to Drive a Culture of Service and Results

Palm Coast, FL Uses Cooperative Contract for Title II ADA Compliance

Turning Questions into Solutions: How Comparative Research Helps Local Governments Make Progress

Your Staff is Already Using AI. The Question is Whether You Know It?

Data Centers: What Does the Public Think?

Open Space: Where the Real Conversations Happen

Alliance for Innovation Intro Event

The Alliance for Innovation Member Circle launches on June 1!

Welcoming Yukon, Oklahoma to the Alliance for Innovation

Civic Marketplace Launches 2.0

Foresight Certification Deadline Extended: May 27th

Launching the Civic Marketplace API to Help Public Agencies Unlock Greater Value from Cooperative Contracts

Fired Up and Future-Ready: Takeaways from the 2026 Transforming Local Government Conference

Denton, TX brings Public Sector Purchasing to Life

Alliance for Innovation Announces the Appointment of a New Board of Directors

Introducing TransformGov.org: A New Online Home for the Alliance for Innovation Community

Alliance for Innovation Announces New Member Benefits

Strategic Storytelling for Local Governments | Helping Public Officials Engage, Inform & Build Trust

Entrepreneurial Mindset. Public Service Impact

The Art of the Pivot

Alliance for Innovation Announces New Executive Director, Michael Wilkes

From Convenience to Control: Rethinking Public Procurement in the Age of Marketplaces

The Exponential Government Leader

August 11, 2026 | 2:00-3:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Member Meet Up: Practitioner Consultancy

August 13, 2026 3:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Civility and Trust in Government

August 25, 2026 2:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Elected Official Priority Setting Strategies: Turning Vision into Action

December 8, 2026 2:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Member Meet Up: World Cafe'

July 16, 2026 3:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Get to Know the Alliance Member Circle

July 21, 2026 2:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Fundamentals of Foresight for Local Government Certification Course

June 1 to July 29, Weekly meetings on Wednesdays 12:00-1:00PM PT
Virtual

Building an Innovation Mindset Through Performance Excellence

October 20, 2026 2:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Activate Your Alliance Membership

October 6, 2026 | 2:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Introduction to Alliance Member Benefits - Onboarding Event September

September 1, 2026 2:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Understanding the Alliance Performance Management Spectrum Model

September 15, 2026 2:00PM ET
Alliance Member Circle

Member Meet Up: Practitioner Consultancy

September 17, 2026 3:00P ET
Virtual

Foresight Leadership Certification Course September-December 2026

September 8, 2026 to December 2026
Delivered on the Alliance Member Circle
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