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Northeastern’s Burnes Center is now home to GovLab, one of the grantees in the first democracy cohort. At the convening at the Luce Foundation, GovLab’s director, Beth Novell, met representatives of another grantee, Solutions Journalism Network. She realized that SJN had amassed an enormous archive of successful government interventions that had been documented by journalists. But government workers had little way to access this knowledge. Burnes will partner with SJN and with the New York Times’ Headway initiative to develop a course for government workers on “what works” in government, drawing on the learnings of SJN and the Times. The course will be delivered on-line and can be completed at learners’ own pace. Funds will be used to support a post-doctoral fellow as well as undergraduate “co-ops.”