IDEA and the Center for Human Resources Research (CHRR) at OSU are currently collaborating to create a sub-panel within the American Population Panel, tentatively called the Deliberative Citizens Panel. The goal is to create a representative panel of U.S. citizens who wish to participate in Deliberative Town Halls and other consultative constituent engagement. As constituent recruitment costs are generally largest fixed cost for any deliberative engagement work, this would reduce the per-project costs for all users.
CHRR is a research center that has 55+ years of survey expertise and large data project management, which currently operates the American Population Panel (APP). The APP is a group of volunteer members who agree to participate in social science and health related studies for research purposes conducted by CHRR. As of May 2022, there are more than 49,000 members of the APP.