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National Partnership for Reinventing Government
Resources

• Search Engines,Indexes, and Document Collections
• Reinvention Initiatives
• Reinvention Publications
• Grants and Rulemaking
• Administrative and Human Resources
• Training
• Jobs
• Procurement
• Finances/Budget
• Management and Government Performance
• Year 2000
• One-Stop Web Sites

Search Engines, Indexes and Document Collections

Federal Web Locator
http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html

GovBot.
http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/Govbot/

Government Information Locator Service
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/gils.html

Government Information Xchange
http://www.info.gov/ If the federal information you want is not on the Web, call the Federal Information Center (FIC) toll-free @ 1-800-688-9889 from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.

GSA's Web Site Index
"Wow" is the only word for this collection of topics-everything from Accessibility Standards to Can't Beat GSA Leasing, to Charge Card Program to Credit Card (IMPAC) to, well, you know, right through to Year 2000. OK, there's no Z, but, you'll find way more than 90 resources right on this web site. http://w3.gsa.gov/index/index.nsf

Legislative Information
Visit Thomas, a service of the Library of Congress. http://thomas.loc.gov/ Ever wonder what the Administration's position was on a pending bill? See Statements of Administration Policy (SAPs) http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OMB/SAP/ .

Presidential Documents (Weekly Compilation)
This online edition is a joint project of the National Archives and Records Administration's Office of the Federal Register and the Government Printing Office. The site has a search engine. Visit http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html

Reinvention Initiatives

America Anywhere
http://bp.fed.gov/AMERICA/america1.htm A listing of federal 800 numbers and e-mail addresses for easy access to the government--part of the Blue Pages Project below.

Blue Pages Project
Under the leadership of the General Services Administration, agencies are reinventing the way that federal government services are listed in over 6,000 telephone directories distributed nationwide. Services are by subject not agency. http://www.npr.gov/initiati/benchmk/index.html

Conversations with America
President Clinton has directed agencies to increase their efforts to engage their customers in conversations about making further improvements in customer service. http://www.npr.gov/library/direct/memos/conamer.html

Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP)
Do you have an operation that might be spun off into a corporation owned by its employees? Check out ESOP's at http://www.financenet.gov/financenet/fed/cfo/franchiz/fop.htm.

Entrepreneurial Government
Want to know more about entrepreneurial government initiatives, legal limitations, opportunities, and experiences? There's a web site for you. http://www.financenet.gov/financenet/fed/cfo/franchiz/fop.htm

Government Executive Magazine's Reinvention Center
http://www.govexec.com/reinvent/ Timely reinvention stories and events.

Hammer Awards and Other Awards
http://www.npr.gov/awards/index.html

High Impact Agencies
Goals of the 32 federal agencies that reach the most Americans. http://www.npr.gov/library/announc/hiapage3.html

National Partnership for Reinventing Government
http://www.npr.gov/ THE site for reinventors, with Presidential and Vice Presidential documents, Conversations with America, speeches, news, Hammer Awards, Reinvention Labs, calendar-the works.

Performance-Based Organizations
http://www.npr.gov/initiati/21cent/index.html Includes Performance Based Organizations: A Conversion Guide http://www.npr.gov/library/pbo/guide1.html
Plain Language President Clinton has directed all federal agencies to use plain language in government writing. Vice President Gore announced an award for "no more gobbledygook." The one-stop site for this initiative is http://www.plainlanguage.gov.

Reinvention Labs
For information, contact Lance Cope at (202) 694-0009 or lance.cope@npr.gov. Visit http://www.npr.gov/initiati/reinvent/index.html

Reinvention Laboratories and Waiver Clearinghouse
Summaries of what's going on in labs around the country. http://www.cais.com/ripavilion/npr/waiver.htm

Welfare Reform
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welfare/index-plain.html Also see NPR's Welfare-to-Work page at http://www.w2w.gov and the Welfare Reform Research and Education Network at http://www.cyfernet.mes.umn.edu/welfare.html

Reinvention Publications

How to Order NPR Publications
http://www.npr.gov/library/order.html

Access America
Vice President Gore's plan for a government that delivers services electronically. http://www.gits.fed.gov/

Benchmarking
http://www.npr.gov/initiati/benchmk/index.html Studies on Telephone Service, Resolving Customer Complaints Customer-Driven Strategic Planning, Performance Measurements, Downsizing, One-Stop Customer Service, and Courtesy.

The Blair House Papers, 1997. This is the "little red book" of workable reinvention rules as practiced by federal workers and recommended to the Cabinet by President Clinton and Vice President Gore. http://www.npr.gov/library/papers/bkgrd/blair.html

Businesslike Government: Lessons Learned from America's Best Companies, NPR's 1997 Annual Report http://www.npr.gov/library/nprrpt/annrpt/vp-rpt97/bg.html

Getting Results Through Learning
This "little green book" on training reinvention was developed by a special task force of the Human Resource Development Council. http://www.amsc.belvoir.army.mil/hrdc/handbook/toc.htm

Project Management for Mission Critical Systems: A Handbook for Government Executives
This "little blue book" tells you how to plan for and buy systems that help your agency get its work done. http://www.itrb.fed.gov/itrbpmp.htm

Turning the Key: Unlocking Human Potential in the Family in the Family-Friendly Federal Workplace (1997 Report) http://www.npr.gov/library/papers/bkgrd/turnkey.html

Grants and Rulemaking

Project EASI
The Department of Education's site gives students, families and colleges immediate access to information and financial assistance to help pay for college. Includes online application. Visit http://easi.ed.gov/.

GrantsNet
Tool for finding and exchanging information about Health and Human Services grants and other selected Federal grant programs. Visit www.hhs.gov/progorg/grantsnet/

Electronic Rulemaking
Want to see what electronic rulemaking online looks like? Take a look at HHS's Administration for Children and Families postings on their website http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/hypernews/ See list of other sites at http://www.statelocal.gov/rulemake.html

Administrative and Human Resources

Health and Human Services Program Support Center http://ds1.psc.dhhs.gov/hhsdir/org/2.html Its mission is to provide qualitative and responsive "administrative support services" on a cost-effective, competitive, fee-for-service basis to HHS components and other federal agencies. In the world of reinvention, outsourcing, downsizing and right-sizing, this is a valuable resource.

Jossey-Bass Pheiffer
Resources for human resource professionals. http://www.pfeiffer.com

Office of Personnel Management the federal government's human resource agency. http://www.opm.gov

Online Resources for Federal Travelers
http://www.govexec.com/travel/resources.htm

Reimbursable Services
Wonder what government agencies offer reimbursable administrative services? Visit GSA's list of reimbursable services http://www.ncppp.org/index.html

Resource Center for Addressing and Resolving Poor Performance
http://www.opm.gov/perform/poor/frames_rc.html

Training

National Guard Bureau's Distributive Training Technology Project
If you want to try distance learning, but don't have the facilities, this is site for you. The National Guard Bureau is sharing its distance learning system and facilities on a fee-for-service basis, which makes it affordable and available to everyone. This means government agencies, schools, military, health care providers, and local communities. Visit http://dtt.ngb.army.mil.

Reinvention Express Calendar
Reinvention meetings, conferences, and training opportunities. http://www.npr.gov/library/express/1997/1998.html

Trainers Page by the Employment and Training Administration.
http://www.doleta.gov/comm.htm

Jobs

America's Job Bank
This is the largest pool of job openings anywhere and attracts millions of visitors each year. Employers and job seekers can post their own ads. Visit http://www.ajb.dni.us

America's Talent Bank
This is Labor's nationwide database of electronic resumes that can be searched electronically by employers. http://www.atb.org.

Career Manager
A resource-filled site to assist you in making career decisions. Linked to more than 36,000 web pages, it was developed by the Department of the Interior http://www.doi.gov/octc/

Disability Initiative
http://www.doleta.gov/access/

Planning Your Future...A Federal Employee's Survival Guide
In a time when many federal agencies are downsizing through reduction in force, federal employees need information about career transition, federal and non-federal employment, retirement, buyouts, RIF, benefits, going back to school, and other transiti onal tools, such as starting a business. This site pulls all this information together in a user-friendly format. http://safetynet.doleta.gov/

USA Jobs
The U.S. Government's official site for jobs and employment information provided by the United States Office of Personnel Management. http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/

Procurement

Acquisition Reform Network
This network is helping achieve breakthrough improvements in the way that government obtains goods and services.. If you want to look for best practices, reference materials, discussion forums, try this site. http://www.arnet.gov/

Environmental Products Guide
A bigger, better guide that lists over 3,000 environmentally oriented products on the GSA Federal Supply Schedule. Visit http://www.fss.gsa.gov.

Federal Supply Service
http://www.gsa.gov/fssintro.htm

Online shopping at GSA Advantage
https://www.fss.gsa.gov/cgi-bin/advwel

Finances/Budget

Federal Budget
Do you know the whole Federal budget is available on the Internet? Go to it! http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/budget/index.html

FinanceNet
http://financenet.gov The Internet's home for public financial management worldwide, established by NPR to achieve continuous improvement and innovation at all levels of government in the stewardship of taxpayer resources.

Government Surplus
Ever wonder what happens to surplus government assets? Visit the one-stop shopping web site for information on the sale or auction of all manner of public assets and surplus, from real property and loans to planes, boats, cars, jewelry and almost anything else you can imagine. http://www.financenet.gov/financenet/sales/sales.htm

Reimbursable Services
Wonder what government agencies offer reimbursable administrative services? Visit GSA's list of reimbursable services http://www.gsa.gov/reimburse/

Retirement Calculator
Belong to the CSRS retirement system and want to calculate your current benefits? Try GSA's CSRS Retirement Calculator http://www.finance.gsa.gov/csrs2.htm

User Fees
Considering user fees and like to get an overview? Try GAO's report on Federal User Fees: Budgetary Treatment, Status, and Emerging Management Issues http://www.financenet.gov/financenet/fed/budget/process.htm

Management and Government Performance

CFO Council's GPRA Implementation Committee Documents
http://www.financenet.gov/financenet/fed/cfo/gpra/gpra.htm The Congressional Institute on the Results Act http://mail.legnet.org/conginst/results/

The Congressional Institute on the Results Act
http://mail.legnet.org/conginst/results/

Managing for Results Page on NPR's web site has many government-wide Government Performance and Results Act resources. http://www.npr.gov/initiati/mfr/

Oregon Option
http://www.econ.state.or.us/opb/or_opt/index.htm Model for results-driven intergovernmental service delivery.

Quality
The Department of the Navy website at http://www.tql-navy.org features numerous quality-related products that can be downloaded such as The Department of the Navy Benchmarking Handbook: A Systems View; A Handbook for Strategic Planning; and Strategic Management for Senior Leaders: A Handbook for Implementation.

The Results Report from Government Executive Magazine
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0997/090897b1.htm

Year 2000

Commonly-Requested Federal Services
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Services/

Consumer
The US Consumer Gateway is your link to federal consumer information.
http://www.consumer.gov/

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
http://www.ed.gov free Quick access to hundreds of teaching and learning resources across the federal government.

Federal Statistics
Statistics on subjects from A to Z from more than 70 agencies on this Web gateway were developed by the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy. http://www.fedstats.gov

Healthfinder
A gateway site developed by Health and Human Services. It brings together health resources of many federal agencies and other partners. http://www.healthfinder.gov

Non-Profit Gateway
A network of links to federal government information and services http://www.nonprofit.gov/

Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Expert Advisors
Industry loves these interactive expert systems. http://spider.osha.gov/oshasoft/.

Protect Your Privacy
This gem of a site tells you how to stop credit bureaus, direct marketers, and department of motor vehicles from sharing your personal information with others. Site even has sample letters! Visit http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/.

Recreation
This site was designed by a partnership of six federal agencies. It provides one-stop shopping for outdoor recreation. http://www.recreation.gov

US Business Advisor
http://www.business.gov One-stop access to federal information, services, and transactions.

US State and Local Gateway
http://www.statelocal.gov This interagency site links to a wealth of federal information by subject for state and local government employees.

Out-of-the-Box Thinking