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Keywords: career link, public sector, NFBANational League of Citieshttp://www.nlc.org/The National League of Cities is the oldest and largest national organization representingmunicipal governments throughout the United States. Its mission is to strengthen andpromote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance. Working inpartnership with 49 state municipal leagues, NLC serves as a national resource to and anadvocate for the more than 18,000 cities, villages, and towns it represents. NLC wasfounded in December 1924 by 10 state municipal leagues that saw the need for a nationalorganization to strengthen local government through research, information sharing, andadvocacy on behalf of hometown America. It was initially an organization of statemunicipal leagues. In the 1960s and 1970s, membership was gradually opened to citiesof all sizes giving local elected leaders a more direct opportunity to shape the priorities,policies, and advocacy positions of the organizations. Today, the unique partnershipamong NLC, the 49 state municipal leagues, and the elected leaders of the 1,700 membercities and 18,000 state league cities provides a powerful network for information sharingand for speaking on behalf of America’s cities in Washington, D.C. and all state capitols.Keywords: employment, governance, leadership, municipal governmentsNew York State Government Home Pagehttp://www.state.ny.usThis website provides a search engine for locating jobs within New York State (both stateand local).Keywords: New York State job, state and local jobsNPELRA (National Public Employer Labor Relations Association)http://www.npelra.orgThe National Public Employer Labor Relations Association (known by its acronymNPELRA) is a nationwide organization of over 2,000 public sector professionalsemployed by federal, state, and local governments, school and special districts.NPELRA’s members represent public employers in a wide range of areas, fromemployee-management contract negotiations to working with arbitrators under grievanceand arbitration procedures. NPELRA works to promote the interests of public sector248