The institute also works in collaboration with Public Agenda to provide community services. The Kettering Foundation is a nonprofit operating foundation that conducts research in order to learn how citizens can make democracy work better and provides publications that focus on what it has learned through its research. The online network provides a research file that contains over 2,500 abstracts, written over the past 15 years. Some of the subjects include public administration, community organizing, educational reform, leadership, and democratic and participatory theory. It does not serve as a special interest group, but brings together people with diverse perspectives and different roles from the local, district, state, and federal levels, to work with and learn from one another.
Many publications are available on educational issues.
It provides technical assistance, publishes research and awards program. Some of its programs are the Alliance for National Renewal, Civic Assistance Program, and Healthy Communities program. The National Institute for Dispute Resolution is a nonprofit corporation that receives funding from a growing number of supporters who understand the value of collaborative decision making and alternative means of resolving disputes. Through the Associates Program's subscriptions, it provides practitioners with access to the Institute's collection of resources. An online network offers a resource guide with a regional list of programs and practitioners in conflict resolution, and an online calendar provides a list of conferences and training events.