02: Relationships That Build Capacity
Georgia
A partnership that kept expanding
Mental Health 911 began as a Kennesaw State University research project supported by PIN Interns. For two years, those interns helped the team refine the technology and move the work forward. As the project developed, PIN secured funding from the Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation (Fitzgerald Foundation) that extended the internship support for another two years.
That additional time gave the project room to keep evolving. The team continued improving the technology, testing it with responders, engaging additional agencies, and moving toward commercialization through TechnovativeAI.
The relationship then expanded, the Fitzgerald Foundation became a PIN partner organization through its own Measuring What Matters project. Two data analyst interns helped the Foundation build four reusable databases, a prototype dashboard, data-quality documentation, and reporting tools across its 21-county service area.
What began with interns supporting one research project became a longer chain of relationships. PIN helped strengthen Mental Health 911, the Fitzgerald Foundation helped extend that work, and the Fitzgerald Foundation later brought PIN talent inside its own organization.
Source: PIN 2026 Impact Report, pages 12–13.
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