§150103 — Title 36 Patriotic and National Observances | U.S. Code

Summary

The corporation must carry out the goals in its articles of incorporation. Its work includes studying how governments and agencies are set up and run, spotting and fixing important problems, looking ahead at new issues and proposing practical solutions, reviewing public programs and policies and recommending changes, advising how federal, state, regional, and local governments should work together and helping officials, citizens, and scholars understand good governance, and running itself with the highest professional ethics and scholarship.

Title 36, §150103

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The purposes of the corporation are as provided in the articles of incorporation and include—

(1)evaluating the structure, administration, operation, and program performance of Federal and other governments and government agencies, anticipating, identifying, and analyzing significant problems, and suggesting timely corrective action;

(2)foreseeing and examining critical emerging issues in governance, and formulating practical approaches to their resolution;

(3)assessing the effectiveness, structure, administration, and implications for governance of present or proposed public programs, policies, and processes, and recommending specific changes;

(4)advising on the relationship of Federal, State, regional, and local governments, and increasing public officials’, citizens’, and scholars’ understanding of requirements and opportunities for sound governance and how these can be effectively met; and

(5)demonstrating by the conduct of its affairs a commitment to the highest professional standards of ethics and scholarship.

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 15010336:2303.Apr. 10, 1984, Pub. L. 98–257, § 3, 98 Stat. 127.

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