The authors of this report are indebted to a number of individuals and organizations whose support have made this work possible. Special thanks to our fiscal agent, the Institute for Creative Development. We could not have begun without the financial and moral support from our funders, the Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation, Safeco, The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Leonard Lieberman Family Foundation, the Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation, and the Pequod Fund of the Tides Foundation. We could not have accomplished the project without the pro bono support of Gilmore Research Group, Neil Robertson and Phinney/Bischoff Design House, and K/P Corporation.

The authors are grateful to the project's advisors: Jane Williams, Charles Johnston, Craig Smith, Burnill Clark, Gary Atkins, Liz Stroup, Ancil Payne, Peter Johnson-Lenz and Trudy Johnson-Lenz, Ross Anderson, Rick Jackson, Alan Rabinowitz, Everette Dennis, Pamela Katims Steele, Emory Bundy, Deborah Jacobs, John Thomas, John Collins, Otto Silha, Ron Thomas, JoElla Weybright, and fellow initiator Anne Stadler.

A number of individuals assisted in providing factual information, opinion and analysis, fact checking and copy review. Thanks to editors Putnam Barber, Kerry W. Fowler, Tien-Tsung Lee, and to our colleagues Nancy White, Susan Howlett, Lucy Emery, Mary Hall, Diantha Schull, Jacquelyn Ostrom, David Kretzinger, Eric Bremner, Denise Klein, Sandy Gill, Martha Kongsgaard, Michael Gilbert, Steve Boyd, Steve Johnson, Doug Schuler, Robin Oppenheimer, Fidelma McGinn, Larry Sagen, Stewart Dutfield, Jim Shaffer, Gordon Barnett, Arlis Stewart, Susannah Malarkey, Mark Pawlosky, Brenda Kramer, Mary Holscher, Geoff Corbin, John Holliday, Parker Lindner, Robert Theobald, Paul Shoemaker, Paul Brainerd, Tom Atlee, Diantha Schull, Terry Tazioli, Sue Trask, Jill Ryan, Frank Karel, Malcolm Dorn, Troy Johnson, and Janet Boguch.

Finally, our thanks to the many leaders in the not-for-profit, news media, and information technology fields, both locally and nationally. They helped to frame the research and provided the input that led us to our subsequent findings.