Lessons from the States: Trends, Experiments, and Success

State Solutions: Making the Impossible Possible and Changing People’s Lives
We know connecting with real people in our communities is key to solving problems. How does that work in practice? This series of TED-style talks will feature leaders and entrepreneurs who are working in their communities every day. They’ll teach us how to connect policy and people in life-changing ways.

Last year's insights are available on demand:

The Latest Education Polling and Takeaways for Your State
Make sense of the trends and understand parents', voters', and teachers' responses to the enormous challenges facing education today.

How Your State Can Unleash the Future of Medicine
Learn how the Goldwater Institute crafted a winning legislative strategy to take Right to Try from research to reality. Get grassroots advocacy advice from a mother who had to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and move overseas to access the treatment to save their daughter's life.

Managers Matter: How State Think Tanks Develop Internal Leadership
Developing skilled managers is essential to attracting and retaining talent. Leaders at Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Texas Public Policy Foundation will share how they are addressing leadership and management development for their staff.

Civil Forfeiture Reform in the States
Sponsored by Competitive Enterprise Institute
The good, the bad, and the ugly—we'll cover it all in this discussion of the strong, weak, and counterproductive reforms of civil forfeiture that various states have passed into law. Walk away knowing how to design strong forfeiture reforms and how to detect and resist weak reforms.

Thank you to these SPN 30th Annual Meeting sponsors!