The California Public Budget Challenge: A Semester-Long Applied Budget Practicum
Language: English
Published by Fraser Leadership Group, 2026
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- Title
- The California Public Budget Challenge: A Semester-Long Applied Budget Practicum
- Author
- Fraser, David E
- Publisher
- Fraser Leadership Group
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798993690599
Public budgeting is more than balancing revenues and expenditures. It is the process through which governments establish priorities, respond to fiscal constraints, allocate limited resources, and make decisions that affect communities.
The California Public Budget Challenge: A Semester-Long Applied Budget Practicum is an experiential learning resource that helps participants move beyond reading about public budgeting and begin performing the analytical, collaborative, and communication work expected of public-sector professionals.
Designed for instructor-led courses and facilitated professional-development programs, the practicum places participants in the role of a Budget & Strategic Finance Team assigned to a California public agency. Through five connected milestones, teams develop an understanding of their assigned organization, assess its financial condition, respond to changing fiscal circumstances, evaluate competing priorities, prepare strategic resource-allocation recommendations, and present their conclusions in an executive-level budget briefing.
The guide is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in public administration, public policy, government, public finance, and nonprofit management. It is also appropriate for faculty members, trainers, emerging budget and management analysts, public managers, and organizations seeking an applied approach to governmental budgeting and financial management.
The practicum includes California public-agency profiles, fiscal-analysis assignments, professional memoranda and report requirements, simulated mid-cycle developments, strategic budgeting exercises, evaluation criteria, peer-contribution tools, executive-presentation guidance, professional resources, and a glossary of essential terminology.
It may serve as the central experiential component of a semester-long course, a substantial team-based assignment within a broader curriculum, or the foundation for an accelerated training or executive-education program. Although grounded in California public agencies, the analytical principles and professional competencies are broadly applicable across governmental and nonprofit settings.
A complimentary Facilitator and Instructor Guide is available to verified faculty members, trainers, and organizations that adopt the practicum for instructional or professional-development use.
The California Public Budget Challenge transforms public budgeting from a subject participants study into professional work they actively perform.
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