Our Services

We help communities, governments, public and private institutions, and more engage with stakeholders, clients, and citizens to craft representative solutions to big challenges.

We advance engagement programs, such as a Citizens Jury, that promote participant confidence, instead of confusion or apathy.

We Advise & Support

To help carry out an existing community, client, or other stakeholder engagement project, we can provide expertise on all parts of the process, including project design, research, creation of educational materials, facilitator training, and expert/participant recruitment.

Project spotlight: A Deliberative Approach to Develop Autism Data Collection in Massachusetts

We Design & Implement

If you need help getting an engagement project up and running, we can create an accessible and effective process from beginning to end. We can provide a process design, research and analysis, educational materials, facilitation, expert recruitment, participant recruitment, facilitator training, stakeholder outreach and engagement, digital engagement, event logistics and workflow management.

Project spotlight: Citizens Jury to determine a new hospital location in the Forest of Dean District, UK

We Collaborate

If your community or organization works on a project that meets a joint goal in one of our key focus areas, Campaigns, Governance & Media, Patient Engagement & Patient Policy, or Climate & Community Resilience, contact us to see how we can collaborate.

Project spotlight: the Rural Climate Dialogues

How can we help you?

Tell us about your current engagement project and what kind of support you’re looking for!

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Partner Testimonials

MorrisTestimonial

“Success sometimes has a snowball effect, and the Jefferson Center brought the first snowball. We have modeled ongoing events after what we learned from the Jefferson Center.”

-Troy Goodnough, University of Minnesota-Morris

NHStestimony

“Through mutual respect and shared learning, we believe that the process resulted in a productive and robust outcome. We were hugely impressed by the way that the jury was facilitated and members were supported during a challenging week.”

-Caroline Smith, National Health Services Gloucestershire CCG

Dougestimony

“If journalists are to reconnect with citizens, we need to listen to them negotiate tough issues. The Jefferson Center model does that.”

-Doug Oplinger, former managing editor, Akron Beacon Journal