Work for a Harmonious World
E-PARCC provides free, open access to teaching tools that prepares individuals with skills that will help them collaborate successfully across organizations in public, private and nonprofit sectors. A project of the Collaborative Governance Initiative, our cases and award-winning simulations engage students in creative, collaborative work to teach them to solve problems and foster change.
Public servants at all levels (elected, appointed and career), as well as leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, find themselves working to solve problems that cannot be solved, or solved easily, by single organizations. No longer just unitary leaders of unitary organizations, these managers are facilitating and negotiating with public, private and nonprofit organizations, as well as with the general public.
In our coursework and training sessions with individuals, teams, and organizations around the world, as well as in discussions with university professors, the need for quality teaching and training materials concerning collaborative ways to creatively solve our most pressing public policy problems has become increasingly apparent. E-PARCC is our response to this need.
We publish the winning cases and simulations that are submitted through an annual competition, making these high-quality teaching materials available in the public domain, free for educators to use in their classrooms.
E-PARCC was founded in 2007 by Rosemary O'Leary and Catherine Gerard, then co-directors of PARCC.
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Designed for use in teaching collaboration skills, all resources are selected through an annual competition sponsored by PARCC and double-blind peer reviewed by a committee of academics and practitioners.
"Advancing Racial Equity in the Minneapolis Park System: How Could Organizations with Divergent Goals Work Together?" A role-play simulation designed to help students understand the challenges in creating a collaborative governance regime when actors involved have different understandings of the core issue.
Authors: Yuan Daniel Cheng, Brooke Dirtzu, University of Minnesota
"Combat and Collaboration in Seattle’s Historic Minimum Wage Debate" Provides a gripping and vivid example of an innovative policy-making process in a major city
Authors: Erik H. Houser, Craig Thomas, Stephen Page, Daniel J. Evans, University of Washington
"Networks and Public Management" This course develops in-depth understanding of the language and practice of networks from the politics of designing, managing and evaluating networks.
Authors: Mike McGuire, Beth Gazley, Indiana University - Bloomington
The E-PARCC competition consists of two tracks: (1) Collaborative problem solving, collaborative governance, and network governance and analysis, and (2) Collaborative methods in international development. The competition opens in November and closes in February.