Current Projects
High Performance Partnerships

Client/Funder:
High Performance Partnerships: Phase I: The Annie E. Casey Foundation (High Performance Partnerships)
Phase II: The Annie E. Casey Foundation, HCFA, private donor (posted 6/12/01)

Purpose and Scope:
This project will study and support the use of high performance partnerships among public, nonprofit, and civic organizations. With funding from the Casey Foundation, the first phase of the project is to develop a resource guide that documents the current state of high performance public/nonprofit partnerships and identifies relevant trends and best practices. In the second phase design labs will be conducted with communities that have actually established high performance partnerships with local government, civic and nonprofit entities. The project panel will review and critique the overall approach to the design lab process and agenda. Second, it will review the output of the design lab meetings and translate that output into a detailed, descriptive model for high performing, cross-sector partnerships.


Center:
Center for Local and State Solutions

Project Director:
Connie Bawcum

Project Status:
Underway

Prospective Panel Members Date Posted: 06/12/2001
The public may comment by e-mail on the composition of the panel for a period of seven (7) days after the posted date.
Send comments to bstroup@napawash.org

Panel:

Camille Cates Barnett (chair) (89) Partner, Public Strategies Group. Former Chief Management Officer, District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority; Senior International Municipal Specialist, Center for International Development, Research Triangle Institute; City Manager, City of Austin, Texas; Associate, The Center for Excellence in Local Government; Associate, PMC Associates; Director of Finance and Administration, City of Houston, Texas; Deputy City Manager, City of Dallas, Texas.

Christine Becker (98) Deputy Executive Director, National League of Cities. Former Senior Associate, Carter Goble Associates; Chief, Office of Human Resource Development, and Chief of Staff, Department of Corrections, District of Columbia Government; Director, Local Elected Officials Project, and Director, Training Institute; Director, Office of Education Services, International City Management Association.

Peter Goldberg (00) President and CEO: Families International, Inc.; and Alliance for Children and Families (formerly Family Service America, Inc.); CEO: Family Foundation of North America,; Ways to Work. Former President, Prudential Foundation, The Prudential Life Insurance Co.. Former positions with Primerica Foundation, Primerica Corporation (formerly American Can Co.): Vice President, Public Responsibility; Director. Former Project Director, New York State Heroin and Alcohol Abuse Study; Special Assistant to the Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Consultant to the President, Joint Center for Political Studies.

Sandra J. Hale (88) President, Enterprise Management, Int'l. Former Commissioner of Administration and Chair, Executive Management Subcabinet, State of Minnesota; Co-editor, Managing Change: A Guide to Producing Innovation From Within, The Urban Institute Press; Associate Professor, Metropolitan State University, Twin Cities; President and Chair, Guthrie Theater Trustees, Minneapolis; Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board; Presidential Appointments: Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Nominating Commission and National Council for the Arts.

Sara E. Meléndez is President and CEO of INDEPENDENT SECTOR. Under Dr. Meléndez's leadership since 1994, INDEPENDENT SECTOR has increased the visibility of the people, organizations, and service of the nonprofit sector; successfully opposed efforts to silence nonprofits' advocacy rights; and promoted collaboration among business, government, and the nonprofit sectors. Dr. Meléndez has served as a spokesperson on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector for various media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, NBC News, CNBC, and CNN. She has also testified before Congress on nonprofit issues.

Michael Rogers (00) Executive Director, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG). Former City Administrator/Deputy Mayor for Operations, District of Columbia;Director, Minority Business Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce; Director, Mayor's Office of Contracts/City Chief Procurement Officer, City of New York; Vice President, Municipal Services, and Executive Director, Jacob Javits Convention Center of New York, Ogden Services Corporation; Deputy General Manager, Washington D.C. Convention Center; Staff Associate, Temporary Commission on Financial Oversight of the District of Columbia; Assistant to Executive Director/Director, Minority Executive Placement Program, International City Management Association (ICMA).

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