Turning Talk into Action

The Penn Project for Civic Engagement helps people identify and address problems in their community or organization.

Since 1995, PPCE created a cross-university collaboration working with community organizations, government agencies and businesses to plan, conduct, and report conversations about important issues. Our role as a neutral, honest broker helps bring diverse perspective to the work. Our close partnership with WHYY radio and television enables the Project to work with news media to amplify the citizens' voices.

Our work helps citizens, governments and companies:

• Identify and talk about vital issues in their communities and organizations,
• Create insights and solutions for those issues, and
• Connect to actors who are responsible for those key issues.

By uniting citizen values with expert knowledge we help clients produce momentum for real solutions that might not emerge otherwise. In short, PPCE turns talk into action.

Public deliberation is not "civic busy work." Rather, we structure civic engagement to have tangible impact on civic life (for sample initiatives, follow the links under "current projects" in the menu).

Forums to Inform the Search for the

Next Leader of the School District of Philadelphia

PPCE is participating in the search for a new superintendent for the School District of Philadelphia.

Click here for final report

Click here for reports from individual forums

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