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Outreach
- State and Community Service
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Outreach is an essential part of the mission of the Andrew Young School. Faculty, research associates and graduate students were heavily involved in Georgia and in the Atlanta region, in all manner of ways. We developed and implemented training programs, carried out applied research projects, spoke at public and private meetings, worked directly with government officials in evaluation of policy options, and served on boards of nonprofit agencies. We tried to help make better policy in our state, and believe we added value in many areas. The following listing shows the very great breadth of our state and community service. See also the more detailed discussions in the sections describing the activities of Domestic Programs, Health Policy Center and the Public Performance and Management Group.
Georgia Health Policy Center
participated in the Legislative Biennial, an event held every other year to orient legislators, particularly freshmen legislators, to issues and process. The Center contributed information on seven health tracks featured at the three-day event.
Public Performance and Management Group
hosted “Strategic Management Using the Balanced Scorecard,” held at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies on October 23, 2006. The conference was co-sponsored by the Balanced Scorecard Institute.
moderated the annual forecasting dinner of the Atlanta Society of Financial Analysts, Atlanta, Ga., January 2006.
served as member of an Experts Panel at the Americans for Informed Democracy's upcoming Young Global Leaders Summit on Ending Poverty, CARE headquarters, Atlanta, Ga., August 2006.
and David Sjoquist gave an invited presentation on “Tax Collectibility in Georgia” to the State of Georgia Tax Reform Study Committee, Atlanta, Ga., August 2006.
see also David Sjoquist.
taught a 6-week course on Christian perspectives on wealth and politics, National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.
presented on Christian perspectives on wealth and politics at Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church, Gaithersburg, Md.
met with representatives from the Trust for Public Lands to discuss the value of city parks, and continued to provide feedback.
helped craft a statement of environmental principles and priorities for the Center for Public Justice.
worked on Bill LC 25-4587, making it automatic for owners of river, stream and reservoir buffer lands and lands adjacent to them, who maintain them in the naturally vegetated state, to qualify for “Conservation Use” tax status.
worked on a committee of other Urban Fellows with DeKalb County's state legislator Stacey Abrams on reforming the state property tax deferral statute.
presented "Setting the Performance Bar" to the Georgia Senate Appropriations Committee, Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2006.
and John Matthews** served as forum panelists at the Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable, Atlanta, Ga., April 7, 2006. The topic of the roundtable was "The Benefits and Risks of the Beltline Tax Allocation District (TAD)." The Beltline Tax Allocation District is a proposed system of parks and trails, neighborhood preservation and revitalization, and mixed-use development, featuring benefits of affordable housing, cleaner air, and an improved tax base.
served as applications reviewer on the Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Ethics Committee for the Better Business Bureau, Spring 2006.
presented on Tax Allocation Districts to Southface Energy Institute, Spring 2006.
presented “An Assessment of the State of Georgia’s Budget Reserves” to the House Tax Reform Study Committee, Georgia State Legislature, Atlanta, Ga., September 21, 2006.
presented to the PPM Balanced Scorecard Institute, Fall 2006.
presented to the Georgia Department of Human Resources Finance Staff and Leadership Team, Winter 2006.
presented on Tax Reform in Georgia to a Senate Appropriations Committee, Winter 2006.
participated in the Georgia Research Alliance Academy of Eminent Scholars business meeting on Wednesday, November 15, 2006. He discussed the new Experimental Economic Center’s mission in research, teaching, and policy applications involving the use of controlled economic experiments with human decision makers, and introduced the EconPort Digital Library, a component of the National Science Foundation’s Digital Science Library, for the purpose of providing opportunities via the Internet to train professors in the use of experimental economics to strengthen undergraduate and graduate Economics classes. The Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar’s Program has the mission of recruiting renowned world scientists to lead extraordinary programs of research and development that will contribute to a high potential economic development impact for the state.
was the guest speaker to the South Fulton Democrats Committee Meeting, Union City, Ga., March 13, 2006.
discussed his estimations of revenues and expenses for the incorporation of the City of South Fulton (Senate Bill 552 which passed and is awaiting the Governor's signature). He was also a panelist for Representative Virgil Fludd's (D, District 66) Town Hall Meeting on the proposed creation of the City of South Fulton, held at Heritage Elementary School, College Park, Ga., March 21, 2006.
authored the report "Costs Per Student Analysis Atlanta Public Schools" for the Regional Atlanta Civic League, 2006.
authored the "Report on the Potential Revenues and Expenditures of the City of South Fulton" for the South Fulton Concern Citizens group, 2006.
authored the report "Expenditure and Revenues Estimates for the City of Chattahoochee Hills" for the Chattahoochee Hill Country Alliance, 2006.
was invited to be a member of the review panel for the Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., March 2006.
and Christopher Parker worked with The Cervical Cancer Elimination Task Force to write the final report of their findings and recommendations.
presented to the Georgia Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee and Senate Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee during Summer 2006.
is a member of the Economics Advisory Panel for the Georgia Professional Standards Commission administering Georgia Assessments for Certification of Educators exam.
attended the Economics Teaching Seminar, Charleston, S.C., February 2006; and “An Evening At the Fed: Energy & the Environment,” Federal Reserve of Atlanta, November 13, 2006; Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nev., April 2006; Georgia Council on Economic Education Annual Directors Retreat, Young Harris, Ga., September 2006; and the Economics Education Symposium, Chicago, Ill., October 2006.
presented the workshop on "Public Policy Issues in Today's Economy" to Georgia high school economics teachers; jointly sponsored by Federal Reserve of Atlanta and Georgia Council on Economic Education, Federal Reserve of Atlanta, November 16, 2006.
participated in the Tri-State Amery-Corps Regional Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
presented the economic outlook for the U.S. and Georgia to the Georgia Senate Appropriations Committee, Ga., January 5, 2006.
presented before the Joint Senate and House Appropriations Committee concerning revenue estimates for fiscal years 2006 and 2007, January 17, 2006.
prepared a forecast analysis of SPLOST revenue for a Georgia county.
prepared an economic conditions summary for the State of Georgia's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
served as primary author of economic trends section of the Georgia Atlas for the Biennial Conference for Georgia Legislators.
presented "Housing Affordability and Exposure of District States" to Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Small Business, Agriculture, and Labor Advisor Council, October 2006.
gave a speech on "What's Up (or Down) with Female Labor Force Participation" to the Economic Development Group of Lowndes County, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Miss., August 2006.
served as committee member for the Metro Atlanta Homeless Census Advisory Council, Pathways Community Network, Inc.
served on the research committee for the Organization Development Institute.
served as volunteer consultant to the Georgia Merit System.
worked on a project forecasting revenues with David Sjoquist, William Smith** and Michael D. Meyer for the Georgia Department of Transportation.
served as support for the 2006 Legislative Biennial.
and Bernette Sherman presented findings of an “Assessment of Health Safety Net Services in Seven Metropolitan Atlanta Counties” to staff from Kaiser Permanente Health Plan of Georgia, Inc. and the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, Ga., June 29, 2006. The assessment reveals rich findings that show from county and regional perspectives on how and where the urban safety net is most frayed.
presented "An Assessment of HealthCare Safety Net Services in Seven Metropolitan Atlanta Counties” to the Safety Net Monitoring Network, national teleconference, October 31, 2006.
served as external reviewer for the grantmaking arm of the Healthcare Georgia Foundation.
served as staff to the State Commission on the Efficacy of the Certificate of Need Program.
presented on how to use the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, with a focus on using the iPOLL search engine to locate survey questions on specific topics from the last 70 years and on downloading data sets for secondary data analysis, Atlanta, Ga., January 19, 2006.
and David Pitts and Chip Kenney presented at the 2006 Coca-Cola Student Leadership Conference hosted at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., October 14, 2006.
and Tom Wade held multiple meetings with key leaders in Georgia government, to determine priority training, technical assistance, and applied research needs of state and local public administrators.
served as staff on the Cervical Cancer Elimination Task Force, to write the final report of their findings and recommendations.
served as staff on the State Commission on the Efficacy of the Certificate of Need Program.
presented “Health in Georgia" to the Georgia Baptist Healthcare Ministry Foundation, Atlanta, Ga., April 17, 2006.
presented on the "State of Health in Georgia" to a Georgia Legislature Senate Study Committee on Healthcare Transformation, Atlanta, Ga., September 7, 2006.
presented "Georgia’s Uninsured" at the Georgia Free Clinic Network, September 8, 2006. Other panelists included Mickey Channell (R-Greensboro) and Ron Bachman of the Center for Healthcare Transformation.
presented "Atlanta's History and Demographics" at the Faith Leadership Institute, Faith And The City, January 16, 2006.
served on Mayor Shirley Franklin’s Task Force on the Design of Atlanta's New Public Safety Building, Spring 2006.
served on Fifth U.S. Congressional District Congressman John Lewis' Task Force on Multicultural Initiatives, Spring 2006.
presented "The Consequences of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot" at the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta,” October 4, 2006; and "The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot" at the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Forum, April 30, 2006.
presented “Regime Politics for Understanding Community Power” to a Clinical Pastoral Education class at the Villages of East Lake, Ga., August 14, 2006.
presented “Race Relations in Atlanta” to a group at Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Ga., December 10, 2006.
served as staff on the Cervical Cancer Elimination Task Force to help write the final report of their findings and recommendations.
worked with the Georgia Division of Public Health to assist with a planning grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which would provide leadership to the state for the prevention of obesity and other chronic diseases by promoting good nutrition and physical activity.
was invited to serve on 2006-2007 Program Committee of the Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, and on the Advisory Committee for their current exhibit called Take a Deep Breath.
served on the Healthy Eating/Active Living Program Committee of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.
was invited to be a member of the Live Healthy Georgia External Task Force.
See Deon Locklin.
served as member of an Advisory Panel on Program Management and Performance Measurement for the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.
served as member of the Strategic Management Committee for the Transportation Research Board.
served as a featured speaker on “The last decade of immigration in Atlanta” at the Randolph Thrower Annual Public Forum on Immigration, organized by the Regional Atlanta Civic League, Atlanta, Ga., November 9, 2006.
was an invited panelist at the “Immigration: The Facts, The Challenges, and the Moral Response” forum organized by the Regional Council of Churches, Atlanta, Ga., December 4, 2006.
served as the featured speaker on Hispanic Immigration Policy Issues in Georgia at the Atlanta Economics Club meeting, Atlanta, Ga., December 12, 2006.
participated in the Biennial Institute for Georgia Legislators, Athens, Ga., December 11, 2006.
received a research grant (through the Georgia State University Research Foundation) from the Georgia Department of Economic Development to create an economic impact module to be used to evaluate the regional effects of cultural and sporting events throughout the state of Georgia. Product was delivered in November 2006, and is being introduced into use in early 2007 following trial runs with potential users throughout the state.
was invited to participate in a number of meetings on the issue of “Public Policy Toward Immigration,” sponsored by Reece & Associates, including: A breakfast meeting attended by a professor from Kennesaw State Universit, two staffers from Reece & Associates, and State Senator Chip Rogers, January 30, 2006; a presentation regarding research on the economic impacts of immigrants into the United States (and more broadly cross-border labor markets in the rest of the world) made to a group of Georgia business executives and other policy-makers at the Commerce Club, April 2006; a Roundtable Meeting with Congressman Tom Price and a group of Georgia business executives, attorneys, and interested parties at the Commerce Club, July 24, 2006; a Roundtable Meeting with Senator Johnny Isakson, Congressman John Linder and a group of Georgia business executive, attorneys, and interested parties at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel, August 15, 2006; and a large luncheon meeting with an expanded group similar to above, also including Daniel Griswold, Ph.D. (Cato Institute) at the Commerce Club, November, 8, 2006.
presented “Economic Aspects of the Arts” to the Foundation Center, Atlanta, Ga., October 12, 2006.
presented “Economic Impact of 1996 Atlanta Olympics: Prediction vs. Performance” to the CIFAL Atlanta Aviation Program (for visiting guests from the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics Committee), November 1, 2006.
served as staff on the State Commission on the Efficacy of the Certificate of Need Program.
see also Glenn Landers.
and James Alm presented “Border Tax Issues” to the House Tax Reform Study Committee, Georgia State Legislature, Atlanta, Ga., August 30, 2006. The subcommittee was chaired by Rep. Steve Tumlin of Marietta; the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Larry O’Neal, was among several attendees.
presented “Issues Associated with TELs” to the Senate Tax and Expenditure Limitation Study Committee, Georgia State Legislature, Atlanta, Ga., September 13, 2006.
spoke to a group of Leadership Atlanta alumni at a program on “What Does Immigration Mean for Metro Atlanta Schools?” Atlanta, Ga., November 16, 2006.
see also James Alm.
see also Laura Wheeler.
served as manager of the Georgia Administrative Data Project.
served as member of the Search Committee for Executive Director of Regional Atlanta Civic League.
served as Gubernatorial appointee to the Georgia Commission on Child Support for the State of Georgia.
served as analyst for the Sandy Springs Central Business District Economic Analysis Study Group, created by the Livable Communities Coalition.
served as a member of the Georgia Afterschool Investment Council and the Georgia Afterschool Report Task Force, 2006.
presented "Covering the Uninsured: A Community Perspective" to the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce, Ga., June 7, 2006; at the Georgia Rural Health Association Annual Conference, Augusta, Ga., August 22, 2006; and to the LaGrange Chamber of Commerce, Ga., October 10, 2006.
served as member of the Georgia Legislative Task Force for rewriting Georgia’s advance directive.
served as member of the Faith-Based Workgroup, a Georgia Collaborative Task Force for the Prevention of Obesity & Other Chronic Diseases.
served as member of the Georgia Collaborative to Improve End of Life Care.
served as member of Leadership Atlanta and Leadership Georgia.
presented at the Water Policy Center, Albany, Ga., April 15, 2006.
presented at the Water Policy Center, Statesboro, Ga., May 30, 2006.
presented on the number of local governments in Georgia and sales tax exemptions to the House Tax Reform Study Committee, Georgia State Legislature, Atlanta, Ga., September 21, 2006.
conducted Fiscal Notes for the 2006 State of Georgia General Assembly Session.
served as a member of the Georgia Child Support Commission economics experts group.
served as a member of the Expert Group for Intergovernmental Forum on Revenue Systems, organized by the National Academy of Public Administration.
served as a member of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s Early Child Care and Education Task Force for the City of Atlanta.
served as Commissioner of the Decatur Planning Commission for the City of Decatur, Ga.
presented to the Foundation Center, April 26, 2006, and to the Clear Air Campaign, October 2006.
served as Executive coach for Gwinnett County (Ga.) Managers through the Public Management Performance Group, Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies.
prepared materials presented at the annual Legislative Night, held by Georgia State University, January 10, 2006.
presented on general issues regarding the corporate income and net worth tax to the State Legislature's Ways and Means committee, Atlanta, Ga., January 19, 2006.
prepared materials for a FRC Fiscal Impact note on corporate taxes.
worked with others to prepare a white paper on the effects of eliminating the personal and corporate income taxes in Georgia.
and David Sjoquist wrote and prepared HOPE VI Harris Homes program evaluation of Community Service Support providers.
assisted in preparing materials for the Legislative Briefing Sessions held in Athens, Ga., December 2006.
assisted in preparing materials for the Biennial Update for Georgia.
was an invited speaker to the University of Georgia, School of Public and International Affairs, Board of Visitors Lunch in April 28, 2006. She spoke about her successful research and teaching career at Georgia State University since graduating with a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Georgia in 1991.
continued service as a member of the Georgia Governor’s Procurement Transformation Governance Council.
presented "The Challenges of Financing Nonprofit Organizations: Looking at Your Mix of Support" to the Atlanta chapter of the Association for Fund Raising Professionals at a breakfast meeting, February 28, 2006.
spoke in a plenary session on Leadership and on a panel on Philanthropy at the Georgia Nonprofit Center's Annual Summit at the Gwinnett Convention Center, Duluth, Ga., June 7, 2006.
presented at The Foundation Center in Atlanta, September 2006.
served as staff to the State Commission on the Efficacy of the Certificate of Need Program.
