About Partnership Work
The big challenges facing us today require widespread collaboration. No one group or institution or country can solve them alone. At the same time, we’re seeing trends away from collaboration toward increasing isolation, loneliness, and division. Our social lives are becoming more fragmented. There’s been a resurgence of political rhetoric arguing that those who don’t live, or believe, or look like us are something less than human.
Fortunately, wherever there are people putting up a wall between “us” and “them,” you’ll find someone else trying to break it down.
Partnership Work is a podcast about the art and science of collaboration. What does it take to reach across the walls that divide us and get people working together to improve our world? Host Paul Kuttner explores this question through in-depth conversations with people who are out there doing the day-to-day work of building coalitions, partnerships, and alliances, as well as those who study and write about it.
Here at Partnership Work, we're building a hub of knowledge, philosophy, and practical wisdom. We're offering hope, but not with rose-tinted glasses. Rather, we're putting a spotlight on the slow, challenging, often invisible work of human connection.
About the Host
Paul Kuttner is all about partnerships. He is Director of Partnerships at the nonprofit organization Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. In this role, Paul supports an array of projects that bridge between professional researchers and communities at the front lines of addressing health disparities. Prior to this, Paul served as Associate Director at University Neighborhood Partners, a center at the University of Utah that builds partnerships between the university and west side Salt Lake City neighborhoods. Paul also researches and writes about partnership work and community engagement. You can find many of his publications here. Paul lives in the Boston area with his family.