Sound Alliance

• Secured commitments from Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown (to develop a strategy for funding pilot projects of residential and small-commercial energy retrofits) and Speaker of the House Frank Chopp (to arrange meetings with key leaders of 3 Washington-based corporations to expand the business community's commitment to health care reform) at their Founding Assembly in June, 2008.
  
• Secured commitments from the Seattle, Tacoma, Bethel, and Clover Park School Districts to work with the Alliance on a project designed to improve career and educational opportunities for the nearly 70% of high school students who will not go on to get a 4-year degree.  Alliance leaders negotiated an agreement between Bethel Public Schools and Washington Sheet Metal Joint Apprenticeship Training Council to provide direct entry into apprenticeships for Bethel high school students.
  
• Negotiated with officials from the City of Renton and the City of Federal Way to train Alliance leaders in emergency preparedness standards and equip local churches with backup power sources so that they can serve as emergency shelters.

Spokane Alliance

• Negotiated with Spokane Transit Authority to maintain the .3% sales tax that funds essential transit services with no requirement to re-vote again in 4 years; to preserve the public accountability measures that the Alliance won in 2004; and to aggressively pursue the purchase of hybrid fuel buses.
  

• Secured commitments from Spokane Public Schools to implement Green Building standards; provide apprenticeship opportunities to District graduates (15% apprentice utilization); and use the project as training ground for green technologies. This served as a model for a Green Building state legislative package.
  
• Lead Eastern Washington lobbying efforts that resulted in passage of bills on Mental Health Parity, Prescription Drug Purchasing Consortium, Apprentice Utilization and Green Building Standards.

  Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good

• Launched a Primary Care Pilot Project between St. Andrew Catholic Church and Providence Health Clinics that matches parishioners with the greatest need to designated places in the North Portland Family and Community Medicine Clinic. This effort has opened the door for other innovative partnerships between mediating institutions and the private sector in health care delivery.

• Secured $75 million in additional funding for affordable housing units in the City of Portland and commitments from the City Council to increase the City's 10-year production goal by 3,350 units for households at or below 50% of median family income.
  

  Greater Edmonton Alliance (Alberta, Canada)

• Secured 450 affordable housing units in the Strathearn Heights redevelopment through negotiations with Habitat for Humanity Edmonton and the City of Edmonton. This model of collaboration is now being replicated in other developments.

• Launched Shake the Hand That Feeds You campaign to connect local congregations to local farmers in order to increase demand for and access to locally-grown food. Through building relationships, "organized eaters" have pledged to purchase 250 food orders directly from area producers.