PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AT PUBLIC AGENDA

While always adapted to the task at hand, our work in public engagement revolves around three fundamental and interrelated practices:

CENTER FOR ADVANCES IN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

The Center for Advances in Public Engagement was launched in an effort to engage citizens more fully in public life. CAPE takes a leading role in a field dedicated to promoting new and better ways for citizens to confront pressing public problems, and to close the gap between leaders, experts and the public in the search for solutions. It is dedicated to re-engaging the larger public on important public matters, to create the possibility for dialogue that gets beneath the "snapshot" or "knee-jerk" views of public sentiment.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT NEWS

Authentic Dialogues Yield Rich Results (AchievingTheDream.org report on 2009 Strategy Institute)

South Texas College Creates College-Going Culture (AchievingTheDream.org report on 2009 Strategy Institute)

City schools tested by the issue of safety (Connecticut Post, Jun 10, 2009)

2009 Strategy Institute, San Francisco (profile of Public Agenda's work on the Achieving The Dream initiative to improve success rates for students at community colleges)

"Governing As If Citizens Matter," by Will Friedman and Alison Kadlec, Feb. 19, 2009

"Connecting The Dots From The Highest Office To The Grassroots," by Will Friedman, Jan. 26, 2009

CityWide on CUNY TV, Will Friedman interview on the advantages of public engagement, May 21, 2008.

THE ENGAGERS: FAVORITE LINKS

Our public engagement team, which works to help citizens, lawmakers and public officials get into real dialogue to achieve real solutions to public policy problems, is smart - very smart. But they're also very well-informed.

Here are a few of their favorite sources for finding out the latest on the art, science and achievements in the field of public engagement: