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The Steven D. Gold Award

Description of the Award

The Steven D. Gold Award recognizes a person who has made a significant contribution to public financial management in the field of intergovernmental relations and state and local finance. The award is given annually by NCSL, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the National Tax Association, in memory of Steve Gold, an active member of all three organizations.

Steve Gold, who died in 1996 from cancer, had an exemplary career as an analyst of state and local fiscal issues. Before his death, he was the co-director of the Urban Institute's New Federalism project. Before that, he was the director of the Center for the Study of States at the Rockefeller Institute of SUNY, and director of Fiscal Studies at NCSL. He had a remarkable ability to span the interests of scholars, elected officials, practitioners, and policy advocates in an evenhanded manner. As an honest broker of issues, he did not engage in partisanship or uninformed advocacy.

He produced a regular column for Governing magazine on the state of the states that was highly regarded by the media and consumers of information on state and local governments.

The sponsoring organizations rotate in chairing the selection committee. Winners receive a plaque and recognition at the annual conference of the specific organization that chairs the selection committee. APPAM will serve as the host organization in 2008, NTA in 2009, and NCSL in 2010.

Previous Winners

Previous winners of the Steve Gold Award are

Year	Winner	Organization	Sponsor
2007	Robert Lang	Director, Legislative Fiscal Bureau Wisconsin	NCSL
2006	Gary Cornia	Brigham Young University	NTA
2005	Robert P. Strauss	H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management	APPAM
2004	David Crotts	North Carolina Legislature	NCSL
2003	William Fox	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	NTA
2002	Helen Ladd	Duke University	APPAM
2001	Robert Keaton	Chief Budget Analyst and Director of the State Senate Fiscal Office, State of Louisiana	NCSL
2000	Robert Ebel	World Bank Institute	NTA
1999	Robert Greenstein and Iris Lav	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities	APPAM
1998	Victor Vernon	Chief Legislative Fiscal Officer, State of Alabama	NCSL
1997	John Shannon	Urban Institute	NTA

Updated 20 December 2007.
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