Public Agenda and MDC, Inc. are both national partners in the Achieving the Dream Initiative.

MDC is the managing partner for Achieving the Dream and the lead agency for data facilitation. Data facilitators help Achieving the Dream institutions build a culture of inquiry and evidence, using disaggregated student outcome data to drive policy and programmatic decision making.

Public Agenda is working on two strand of work with the Achieving the Dream Initiative, community engagement and student and faculty involvement.