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Durham Satisfaction Survey Shows Residents Give High Marks for Employee Customer Service

Residents Rank Quality of Police Protection and Maintenance of City Streets as City Government-Provided Services to Receive Most Emphasis from Leaders Over the Next Two Years

For two years in a row, City of Durham employees rose to the occasion to continue...

Business Insider Recognizes PB Durham's Role in Accelerating Urban Leadership Lab

eMerging Entrepreneurs, Inc. is excited to announce that its youth STEM and entrepreneurship platform, the Urban Leadership Lab, was voted to receive a Participatory Budgeting grant to fund the launch of its technology and business education programs...

Bloomberg Cities Highlights Department's Use of Time-Tested Research Techniques

In order to solve touch city problems like homelessness or blight, you need to know what's causing them. That sounds obvious. Yet all too often, cities launch programs based more on hunches and assumptions than research and evidence...

PB Durham Highlighted in Public Management Magazine (p. 37)

Participation in local government processes and decision-making within the City of Durham, North Carolina - like many other municipalities - has traditionally been from a small group of residents that are already engaged with the city, and are typically..