This report captures lessons learned from a set of management development programs for teams from the 13 states that had been awarded grants through The Wallace Foundation’s State Arts Partnerships for Cultural Participation initiative, or START. 

Working through Arts Midwest, Wallace offered these programs to provide the teams with  (1) general education in public sector leadership and management; (2) venues in which the START SAAs could meet to discuss the innovations they were attempting to implement; and (3) specific technical assistance to the participating states as they adjusted their practices.

The report was co-written by Mark H. Moore, a Harvard expert in public management who helped put together and lead the sessions on public sector leadership and management. The idea of the strategic triangle that helped drive the series is based on Moore’s theory of public value, described in his book Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government.