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Meet Grace: Your AI-Powered Grant Writing Assistant is Here to Save Time and Sanity

Introducing Grace, Polco’s AI grant-writing assistant designed to make the grant process faster, easier, and smarter. Grace combines advanced AI capabilities with your community’s real data to help you write compelling grant applications in a fraction of the time. Alleviate your grant writing headaches with Grace.

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Making Local Budgets Matter: Engaging Residents in the Process

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Residents want a say in how their tax dollars are spent—but many feel left out of the budgeting process. This disconnect can lead to mistrust, disengagement, and inefficiencies. Local governments must rethink how they approach budgeting, ensuring transparency and meaningful public participation.

Our latest whitepaper, Making Local Budgets Matter: Engaging Residents in the Process, explores how governments can build trust, integrate resident priorities, and create budgets that truly serve their communities.

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Latest Articles & Research

Community engagement, resources, and data trends leaders should know. Check out Polco's blog to stay updated.

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Reimagining Public Budgets: The Beginning of Balancing Act (Now a Polco Tool)

Balancing Act makes budget conversations more accessible, transparent, and even enjoyable. It began as a simple but powerful idea: Let people interact with public budgets online, in ways that are intuitive, educational, and meaningful.

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Public Safety starts with listening: How the National Law Enforcement Survey builds trust and transparency

Learn how the National Law Enforcement Survey (NLES) from Polco gives communities a clear, data-driven look into public perception of police services. 


Polco Innovation Memo - The Future List - April 2025

Polco featured on The FutureList: A global nod to smarter, more inclusive governance

We’re thrilled to share that Polco has been recognized by The FutureList, a leading voice in global tech innovation, as a trailblazing company transforming how governments engage with residents, gather insights, and make better decisions.

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Your business community is talking. Are you listening?

Learn how the NBS gives you statistically valid, actionable insight directly from the source: the business owners and managers working every day to keep your local economy alive.

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