After research projects are first posted, and researchers have responded, the next step is a research partnership meeting, which interested researchers attend online or can access through a recorded version. Among OSP’s philanthropy and research partners is the North Carolina Collaboratory, “established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2016 to utilize and disseminate the research expertise across the University of North Carolina System for practical use by state and local government.” The Office of Management and Budget’s Evidence Team is using OSP materials and processes as a basis for some research partnership efforts, and the Environmental Protection Agency has asked OSP to facilitate two research partnerships.