THE Public Intersection PROJECT
Mission: To assist governments, nonprofits, businesses, faith-based organizations, and philanthropies in recognizing shared concerns and acting as partners to solve public problems and create public value.
Vision: Leaders throughout North Carolina routinely build and use regional and cross-sector partnerships successfully to improve their communities.
Our Services: Through teaching, facilitation, and consultation, we help government officials and their potential partners:
- Create shared visions and goals for public betterment and plan to achieve them
- Craft multi-party agreements and ways to hold partners accountable
- Work together successfully
- Assess and refine their programs and relationships
Through research and writing, we develop new techniques and publicize ways government officials and their potential partners can work together better to solve public problems and create public value.
Our Short-Term Goals:
- To identify opportunities to teach collaboration skills by helping local leaders work together to define and address current public problems.
- To continue exploring new ways to engage and teach community problem-solving.
- To continue sharing what we learn through writing and publication.
- To develop funding that will permit us to focus primarily on furthering our mission rather than on covering money gaps or details of accounting. Receipts generated by this work can cover much of the cost, but we need additional support to cover time for preparation, research, and writing.
Our Long-Term Goals:
- To prepare a strong cadre of local leaders, through training and guided direct experience, who are skilled at creating and sustaining partnerships to address public problems.
- To help local leaders create an environment in which partnerships are viewed as viable strategies for solving public problems that span boundaries or that offer economies of scale.
- To build a broad base of acceptance for regional and cross-sector partnering among local governments all across North Carolina.
Our Recent Work:
- Increasingly involves work with boards and commissions to help local leaders work effectively both inside their organizations and across organizational boundaries.
- Includes citizen involvement in various forms.
- Applies to a wide variety of public efforts because it is grounded in general principles of collaborative problem-solving, not in particular issues.
- Convinces us that the most effective way to teach collaboration skills is within the context of current pressing issues.
Many of our resources are available on this website, and we are always willing to discuss your specific interests in person or on-line. If you are designing an event that involves cross-organizational or cross-sector collaboration (either beginning a project or reviewing the status quo and moving forward), let us know of any specific training needs you have, and we will be glad to share individual training exercises with you.
We invite the opportunity to present a proposal to meet your consultation, facilitation, or training service needs. Contact Margaret Henderson or Lydian Altman-Sauer for more information.
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