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Multi-Partner Projects
Public Agenda is or has been a partner in a number of broad initiatives, including:
 | Goal 2025: An initiative, funded by the Lumina Foundation, to increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality college degrees, certificates or other credentials to 60% by 2025. |
 | Completion by Design: A five-year Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative that works with community colleges to significantly increase completion and graduation rates for low-income students under 26. |
 | Achieving the Dream: A national nonprofit dedicated to helping more community college students, particularly low-income students and students of color, stay in school and earn a college certificate or degree. |
 | Everyone at the Table: A collaboration with American Institutes for Research, Everyone at the Table provides research-based materials to help meaningfully engage teachers on evaluation reform. A book on the issue is also forthcoming in June 2013. |
 | Choosing Our Fiscal Future: An online and social media platform to help citizens make sense of our country's fiscal challenges and possible approaches to solving them. |
 | Facing Up to the Nation's Finances: A nonpartisan project on the long-term challenges of the federal budget. |
 | Planet Forward: A platform for experts and engaged citizens to come together to find solutions to our shared challenges, specifically in the areas of energy, climate and sustainability. |
Community and State Engagement Initiatives
The following case studies provide a glimpse into some recent community engagement initiatives the Public Engagement team has embarked on. These descriptions demonstrate what can be accomplished by engaging local communities and generating honest, productive dialogue.
- Engaging citizens on sustainable development in St. Louis
- Fostering dialogue between the police and citizens
- Addressing property tax reform in New Jersey
- Setting education standards in San Jose, California
- Engaging parents, guardians and young people on after-school programs in Biloxi, MS, post-Katrina
- Expanding collaboration between Nebraskan citizens and the state board of education
- Creating a better future post-Katrina in Moss Point, MS
- Changing the conversation on education in Connecticut