Polco News & Knowledge
Community 2.0: A Local Blueprint to Heal a Divided Nation
June 24, 2025
Countdown to the Future: 10 Mega Trends Shaping Cities and Communities
June 23, 2025
From Input to Impact: How Polco Powers Real Resident Participation
June 18, 2025
What Budgets Reveal About Our Values
June 16, 2025
National Survey Reveals Shocking Gaps in Housing for Older Adults
June 11, 2025
Beyond the Bot: How Polco’s AI is Transforming Communities
June 9, 2025
🎉 Celebrating 10 Years of Polco: From a Big Idea to a National Movement in Civic Engagement
June 6, 2025
Is Civic Engagement just an Illusion?
June 4, 2025
Unlock the Power of Community Insight with Polco’s Assess Module
June 2, 2025
Rethinking Budgeting: Why Civic Engagement is the Future of Public Finance
May 30, 2025
Engage Your Community like never before with Polco’s Engage Module
May 27, 2025
1 Million Strong: How BPC is Driving National Civic Engagement with Polco
May 23, 2025
What Your Community Really Thinks (And Why Most Leaders Are Wrong)
May 20, 2025
Rewriting the Map: Why Millennials are Moving - and What it Means for Your Community
May 19, 2025
5 Reasons You Need Online Public Engagement
May 15, 2025
5 Ways Polco’s AI-Powered Tools are Revolutionizing Public Sector Operations
May 13, 2025
Flashback: How Hartford, CT Helped Launch a New Era of Budget Engagement
May 8, 2025
How Edmonds School District Reimagined Community Engagement through Budget Simulations
May 7, 2025
The Economic Pulse of Your Community is Just a Click Away
May 6, 2025
Beyond the Snowbird: How Boomers are Shaping the Future of Retirement
May 2, 2025
What would YOU cut? How Budget Simulations are Transforming Civic Engagement
May 1, 2025
Why Polco's Rethinking Budgeting Tools are Essential for Transparent and Effective Budget Planning
April 29, 2025
How to use Polco's Benchmark Surveys to Shape Your Community’s Future
April 24, 2025
From Three Minutes at the Mic to Online Engagement
April 22, 2025
Meet Grace: Your AI-Powered Grant Writing Assistant is Here to Save Time and Sanity
April 17, 2025
Reimagining Public Budgets: The Beginning of Balancing Act (Now a Polco Tool)
April 15, 2025
Polco featured on The FutureList: A global nod to smarter, more inclusive governance
April 10, 2025
April 7, 2025
Aging in Place, or Being Left Behind? What Every Community Needs to Ask Older Adults Now
April 2, 2025
Your business community is talking. Are you listening?
April 1, 2025
What If You Knew The Questions That Could Change Everything for Your Community
March 27, 2025
In a World of Uncertainty, Your Community Already Has the Answers
March 25, 2025
A Transparent Path to Smarter Budgeting
March 13, 2025
Interactive Budget Simulations: A New Era of Public Engagement
March 11, 2025
Why Governments Need AI Chatbots: Efficiency, Trust, and Smarter Public Engagement
March 7, 2025
Transforming Public Finance: Embracing Rethinking Budgeting Principles
February 25, 2025
Which U.S. Cities Deserve an NFL Team? Our Data Science Team Has Answers!
February 6, 2025
Polco AI: Unlocking Smarter, Data-Driven Communities
January 27, 2025
Polco and Tyler Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership
January 23, 2025
Polco Named a 2025 GovTech 100 Company: Leading Innovation in Government Technology
January 21, 2025
How to Overcome Polarization and Build Trust in Your Community
January 17, 2025
Empowering Small Governments with Polco AI Solutions
January 14, 2025
Polco AI and BYOD: Revolutionizing Data Integration
January 8, 2025
Streamline Your Grant Writing Process with Polco's Grant Writing AI
December 20, 2024
Choosing the Right Grant for Your Community with our Grant Writing AI
December 17, 2024
Unlocking the Power of Effortless Grant Writing with Polco's Grant Writing AI
December 12, 2024
Polco’s New Comparison Groups Feature
December 2, 2024
Avoid These Top Ten Common Community Survey Mistakes
November 24, 2024
How Polco’s New Track Feature Puts Older Adults’ Data in Focus
November 22, 2024
How Polco’s Engage Module Elevates Community Engagement and Feedback
November 18, 2024
AI in Action: How Governments Are Turning to Technology to Drive Change
November 15, 2024
Top Ten Things You Should Know About Local Government Employee Surveys
November 7, 2024
Fall 2024 Release: A Polco Product Showcase
November 4, 2024
Top 7 Cities for Trick-or-Treating: A Data-Driven Halloween Adventure
October 29, 2024
AI Is Here. Are City Leaders Ready?
October 21, 2024
Eight Biggest Challenges for Local Governments Today
October 13, 2024
America’s Top Five Most Socially Connected Counties
October 11, 2024
Visual Storytelling: How Histograms Reveal the Secrets Behind Your Data
October 10, 2024
October 9, 2024
Good Government: Mapping the Commons
October 3, 2024
The Power of the Community Livability Snapshot: A Closer Look at Polco's CLS Tool
October 2, 2024
How Hanford, California Collaborated with Residents to Revitalize Downtown
September 25, 2024
The Top Five Local Government Priorities for 21st-Century Leadership
September 25, 2024
Inspiring Leadership Lessons From Five Award-Winning Women Trailblazers in Local Government
September 18, 2024
Year of Transformation: Connect With Polco at the 2024 ICMA Annual Conference
September 17, 2024
Connected Communities: Unlocking Success Through Social Capital, Trust, and Equity
September 13, 2024
Introducing Polco’s New Monthly Product Update Series: Polco Pulse
September 13, 2024
How Community Engagement Helps Leaders Make Tough City Budget Decisions
September 4, 2024
The Proven Method to Successfully Advocate Healthy Aging
July 31, 2024
Can Local Governments Help Restore American Happiness?
July 24, 2024
How Elk Grove Improves Services With a Data-Driven Mindset
July 8, 2024
How To Triple the Impact of Priority-Based Budgeting With Public Engagement
July 2, 2024
How LA Metro Impressed Residents With Its Budget Engagement Outreach
June 24, 2024
How Local Government AI Can Enhance Data-Driven Decision-Making
June 21, 2024
June 10, 2024
America’s Top Five Infrastructure Needs
June 10, 2024
A New Partnership Gives LWM Members Big Discounts on Leading Tech
May 20, 2024
Discover Your City’s Quality of Life Performance
May 17, 2024
How A Health Non-Profit Leverages Polco Data To Secure Critical Grants
May 14, 2024
AI Is Here. Are Local Governments Ready For It?
May 3, 2024
How Local Government Mentorship Advances Careers and Bridges Leadership Gaps
April 24, 2024
Press Release: Polco Selected for an Exclusive Business Development Immersion Program
April 16, 2024
How To Streamline Data-Driven Strategic Planning With AI
April 12, 2024
Introducing AI Data Analytics for Government Performance Management and Decision-Making
April 10, 2024
Polco and Envisio Partner to Offer Better Data for Strategic Planning
April 4, 2024
AI in Government: A New Era of Data-Driven Decision-Making
March 26, 2024
How To Prepare and Create an Age-Friendly Community
March 25, 2024
How Residents Can Help You Make Tough Local Government Budget Decisions
March 21, 2024
How Santa Barbara County Made a Large-Scale Rezoning Project Easier With Housing Simulation Tech
March 20, 2024
March 19, 2024
How To Improve Workplace Communication Culture With Modern Messaging Tech
March 18, 2024
Top Ten Ways To Build a Successful and Vibrant Downtown
March 1, 2024
Missed Opportunities To Build Trust in Local Government Budgeting
February 15, 2024
How To Build a Data-Driven Culture for Successful Community Decisions
February 15, 2024
How Coral Gables Received 24,310 Survey Responses
February 13, 2024
How Shakopee Made Taxpayer Education Enticing
February 12, 2024
Ten Most Important Community Livability Measures Governments Should Track (and Make It Easy)
February 7, 2024
Proven Methods for Governments to Bridge the Urban-Rural Divide
February 2, 2024
How Edmond Drives High Resident Satisfaction With Public Safety Services
January 30, 2024
How To Engage Residents in Housing Solutions
January 19, 2024
Exclusive Interview: Polco Named a 2024 GovTech 100 Company
January 10, 2024
How Local Govs Can Avoid the Dangers of CRM-Survey Privacy Issues
January 10, 2024
Polco's Top 10 Articles of 2023
January 2, 2024
Three Ways Local Governments Are Reinventing Community Engagement
December 27, 2023
December 20, 2023
Is Remote Work Suited for Local Government?
December 20, 2023
How To Easily Turn Big Data Into Successful Decisions for Small Communities
December 13, 2023
How Local Government Leaders Can Overcome Polarization
December 8, 2023
3 Key Ingredients in Meaningful Community Engagement
December 5, 2023
Higher Education Budgeting: Engaging Stakeholders To Make Tough Tradeoffs
December 1, 2023
What City Leaders Should Focus On Most in 2024
November 21, 2023
The Top Five Local Government Priorities for 21st-Century Leadership
November 7, 2023
Meet the 2023 Leadership Trailblazer Award Winner: Valmarie Turner
November 7, 2023
How Fort Knox Used Community Input to Better Life on Base
November 6, 2023
Denver Gives Residents $2 Million To Spend With Participatory Budgeting
October 26, 2023
What Does It Take to Rethink Budgeting?
October 19, 2023
The 2023 Voice of the People Awards Winners Revealed
October 12, 2023
October 2, 2023
Riders Use Online Simulation Tool to Shape LA Metro Budget
September 29, 2023
Rising Recognition: The Voice of the People Awards Expand
September 25, 2023
How Virginia Makes Positive Impacts on Housing for Aging in Place
September 20, 2023
How Pinellas County Made Strategic Planning Simple
September 7, 2023
Where To Find Polco at the 2023 ICMA Annual Conference
September 6, 2023
How Prepared Is Your School District for the Coming Fiscal Cliff?
August 30, 2023
Housing Impacts on Aging in Place and How You Can Drive Solutions
August 28, 2023
What’s the Difference Between Probability and Nonprobability Sampling?
August 9, 2023
Buffalo Grove’s Simple Strategy to Reach Diverse Voices
July 25, 2023
How Small Cities Can Close the Data Equity Gap
July 25, 2023
Polco Launches the Small Cities Pilot Program
July 24, 2023
Reach Underheard Groups With This Proven Strategy
July 21, 2023
Help Celebrate Trailblazing Women in Local Government Leadership!
July 20, 2023
Nominate an Outstanding Woman: 2023 Leadership Trailblazer Award
July 17, 2023
Nominate an Emerging Leader: 2023 Firestarter Award
July 17, 2023
Papillion Proves Community Policing Works
July 13, 2023
How Resident Data Informs Virginia’s State Plan on Aging
July 6, 2023
How Governments Use Data to Win Grants
July 6, 2023
Why We Need To Rethink Budgeting: Interview With Mark Funkhouser
June 16, 2023
Tackling Government’s Wicked Challenges: From Budget Shortfalls to Climate Change
June 15, 2023
Big Data for Small Community Decisions
June 13, 2023
Strategies Local Governments Use to Solve Tough Challenges
June 13, 2023
The Secret to City Council and City Manager Alignment
May 30, 2023
How to Write an Attention-grabbing Press Release About Your Data
May 25, 2023
May 23, 2023
How Polco Powers Strategic Planning in Five Steps
May 19, 2023
How Fate Increased Sales Tax Revenue With Economic Improvements
May 16, 2023
How New Park Amenities Improved Fate Residents’ Health
May 16, 2023
Morro Bay Gives Residents a Say in Who's Hired as Police Chief
May 10, 2023
Where Residents Love To Ride the Bus: Public Transportation in Skokie
May 9, 2023
Is Your Community Survey Data Representative?
May 8, 2023
A Roadmap to Collaborative Local Government Budgeting
May 3, 2023
Achieve Greater Representativeness With Online Survey Auto-Weighting
April 28, 2023
Why Paper Surveys Still Hold Value in the Digital Age
April 28, 2023
Three Creative Ways Local Govs Used Resident Feedback To Take Action
April 20, 2023
The Top 10 Community Needs According to US Residents
April 17, 2023
April 17, 2023
How Cape Coral's Incentive Program Helped Boost Its Local Economy
April 13, 2023
Take Your Career to the Next Level With Data-Driven Decision-Making Certification
April 4, 2023
How To Know if You Can Trust Your Survey
March 30, 2023
Five Ways To Become a Data-driven Government
March 29, 2023
The Secret Ingredient to Employee Retention
March 23, 2023
Small Cities Can Use Grant Funds to Purchase Polco for Data Collection
March 14, 2023
How a City Built Without Sidewalks Won an Award for Mobility
March 8, 2023
Balancing Act Joins Polco To Bring Community Engagement to New Heights
February 14, 2023
Government Performance Measurement Should Focus on What Matters
February 9, 2023
Largo Successfully Allocates ARPA Funds Based on Residents' Critical Needs
February 8, 2023
Gardena Gets Community Input on How To Reduce Homelessness
January 25, 2023
What Matters Most To Older Adults in Indiana
January 10, 2023
Polco Recognized as a GovTech100 Company for 2023
January 4, 2023
Polco's Top 10 Articles of 2022
January 4, 2023
Why It's So Hard For Small Cities to Get Grant Funding
January 4, 2023
December 21, 2022
Flower Mound Experiments With How To Make Meetings More Interactive
December 20, 2022
How To Turn Big Data Into Successful Community Decisions
December 15, 2022
Older Adults Are Working Longer, but for Very Different Reasons
December 8, 2022
Is Polarization Impacting Local Governments?
December 7, 2022
Why Political Polling Is Often Wrong
November 29, 2022
How Local Governments Can Help Older Adults Age in Place
November 22, 2022
See You in Kansas City for NLC's 2022 City Summit
November 15, 2022
Four Ageist Workplace Myths and Why They’re Untrue
November 15, 2022
How Polco Was Built on a Foundation of Service
November 10, 2022
Meet the 2022 Leadership Trailblazer Award Winner Anne Marie Gaura
October 28, 2022
How Governments Can Increase Email Subscribers for Marketing Campaigns
October 28, 2022
How To Provide Law Enforcement Mental Health Support
October 18, 2022
Fostering Leadership with Ukrainian Youth
October 17, 2022
How the Government Performance Action & Learning Partnership Empowers Government Decision-makers
October 6, 2022
How Goodyear Became the Highest-Rated Workplace by Surveying Employees
September 30, 2022
Presenting the 2022 Voice of the People Award Winners and Finalists
September 28, 2022
How Dane County Excels in Online Community Engagement
September 16, 2022
The Complete Conference Survival Pack
September 15, 2022
Leaders Reveal the Biggest Local Government Budgeting Challenges
September 15, 2022
Voice of The People Awards Honor Unsung Efforts of Local Governments
September 8, 2022
Press Release: Announcing the Formation of Government Performance Action and Learning (GPAL)
September 7, 2022
How Local Government Leadership Can Alleviate Workplace Stress
September 6, 2022
Where to Find Polco at ICMA 2022
September 6, 2022
How Can Government Leaders Build a More Walkable City?
September 2, 2022
How Nevada County Involves Its Employees in Organizational Innovation
August 26, 2022
Coronado Keeps History Alive Through Cultural Preservation
August 26, 2022
Data Shows How Types of Engagement Can Predict Community Satisfaction
August 19, 2022
How Laguna Beach Established a Baseline for Local Government Performance
August 16, 2022
How This College Town Strengthened Relationships Between Residents and Law Enforcement
August 15, 2022