[Alicia]

While I do not work on a research site, I feel the majority of my colleagues here at the Reagan-Udall Foundation do understand the value of stakeholder engagement. As a smaller (~8 full time staff), and relatively young organization, we have spent a lot of time working to articulate our core principles and goals of the organization. One of these is to ensure broad stakeholder participation in all of our projects and programs—this way, we can work to ensure that diverse perspectives and expertise is brought in to support and enhance all of our work. Another thing we have started doing at the outset of new initiatives, is informal interviews with stakeholders to assess needs, concerns, and issues for a given topic (comparable to the formative research stage in GPP). In this way, we can work to align stakeholder needs at the start of a new initiative and ensure the new work effort focuses on common challenges and goals.