<div dir="ltr">FYI,<div><br></div><div>Suzanne L. Sager</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Wood</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:14 PM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] Harvard University's Innovations in American Government Awards Program information<br>To: "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>><br><br><br>





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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#d31145">Apply Now for the Innovations in American Government Awards</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Applications are now being accepted for the $100,000 Innovations in American Government Awards.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Offered by Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Innovations Award is the nation’s premier award for the public sector. It recognizes programs
 that demonstrate creative and effective government at its best.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">All units of government — federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial — from all policy areas are eligible to apply for recognition.  <br>
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This year, the Ash Center is also once again offering the </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Roy and Lila Ash Innovations Award for Public Engagement in Government</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">,
 a special Innovations Award that will recognize government-led programs that demonstrate novel and effective approaches to increasing public engagement and participation in the governance of towns, cities, states, and the nation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The winners of the Innovations in American Government Award and the Roy and Lila Ash Award will each receive a $100,000 grant to support replication and dissemination activities in
 2017. Top finalists will also receive monetary grants.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Applications and additional information are available at<br>
</span><a href="http://www.innovationsaward.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#00549e">www.innovationsaward.harvard.edu</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#d31145">APPLICATIONS ARE DUE ON APRIL 15, 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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