ILG Celebrates 60 Years of Service to California’s Local Governments
As the Institute for Local Government (ILG) celebrates its 60th Anniversary, we reflect on our impact promoting good government at the local level and look ahead to our place in helping establish future opportunities and partnerships to support the work of local agencies throughout California.
Creating the Institute
ILG was founded in 1955 with the support of a Ford Foundation grant, to promote inter-jurisdictional cooperation among local agencies. In the mid-1960s, as local agencies were beginning to recognize the need for cities and counties to cooperate on regional issues, the Institute responded with its first publication offering a practical how-to guide on effective collaboration which included examples from the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California and Maricopa County, Arizona.