Programs & Trainings
Cohort-based programs and facilitated trainings that give city leaders the skills, as well as the peer network, to drive change that actually sticks.
Leading City Procurement Reform
Where city leaders do the hard work together
Each year at Leading City Procurement Reform, Partners for Public Good works with a cohort of city leaders ready to tackle some of the hardest challenges in public procurement:
- Cycle times that stretch months longer than they should
- Vendor diversity gaps
- Reforms that stall when leadership changes
Leading City Procurement Reform, developed in collaboration with the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, is where cities come to make real change. Select alumni cities of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative are invited to apply.
Participants receive coaching, learn alongside peer cities navigating similar obstacles, and spend a week in intensive classroom sessions with Harvard University faculty, combining classroom learning with real work on the problems they brought with them.
Together, they’ve built a growing bank of case studies and strategies for challenges that don’t have easy answers, and left better equipped to lead reform that lasts.
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Training In Action
Columbia, South Carolina
We recently partnered with the City of Columbia, S.C., to facilitate a training session on effective contract management. We developed a simulation-based learning experience that cast their team as consultants to a fictional Cloud City, where lagging janitorial services had caused municipal buildings to fall into disrepair. The root of the problem? A custodial contract that just wasn’t working out.
Staff worked in groups to analyze different sections of the contract and applied proactive contract management principles to make recommendations for getting custodial work back on track.