In 2001 "Collaborating to Make Democracy Work," part of the "Uniting America" series, cited collaboration between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors as advantageous if tangible policy goals are set with proper research to back them up.  Participants looked to business leaders to take the lead in engaging community issues and asked for government to create incentives in support of intersectoral collaboration.Participants varied from executives from Coca-Cola, MTV, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy to government officials to intellectuals from Harvard, Duke, and Yale Law School.  

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