Stronger communities begin with better local intelligence.
Interlocal is developing a county-centered platform that helps local governments and community organizations better understand available services, organizational capacity, unmet needs, and resource gaps—during everyday operations and times of crisis.
Currently engaging county and community leaders to shape the Interlocal pilot model.
A county-centered approach to community intelligence.
Interlocal is an early-stage GovTech initiative building a shared community intelligence environment for the organizations that make counties work — local governments, emergency management agencies, nonprofit networks, healthcare providers, and civic partners.
Our aim is to complement — not replace — the systems communities already rely on, by helping partners assemble a clearer, more current picture of the services, capacity, and needs across their county.
A working prototype is in place and the founding technical team is assembled to support early pilot deployments with county partners.
Communities have resources. They do not always have a shared picture of them.
Counties often rely on information distributed across government agencies, nonprofit organizations, healthcare providers, faith-based groups, businesses, and community networks. Service information may be fragmented, outdated, difficult to compare, or unavailable when conditions change.
These challenges affect everyday social-service coordination and become especially significant during emergencies, when communities need a timely understanding of available resources, organizational capacity, emerging needs, and geographic service gaps.
Fragmented Information
Community resource information is maintained across separate organizations and systems.
Changing Capacity
Service availability, operating conditions, and organizational capacity can change quickly.
Limited Countywide Visibility
Leaders may lack a shared view of gaps, duplication, access barriers, and unmet needs.
Emergency Coordination Pressure
Existing information systems may not adapt rapidly enough during response and recovery.
One community picture. Multiple local applications.
Interlocal is being designed as a shared community intelligence environment that can support planning, service coordination, emergency management, economic resilience, and cross-sector decision-making.
The approach is geographically grounded and designed to work alongside existing GIS, emergency management, and nonprofit information systems already in use across the county.
Shared Resource Visibility
Support a more current and organized understanding of community providers, programs, services, operational capacity, and areas served.
County-Level Planning Intelligence
Help partners identify geographic service gaps, unmet needs, duplication, access challenges, and opportunities for stronger coordination.
Emergency and Recovery Readiness
Allow participating organizations to communicate changing conditions and resource availability during emergencies, disruptions, and long-term recovery.
Specific platform functions will be shaped with pilot partners and participating practitioners.
Designed for everyday coordination and crisis conditions.
Everyday Community Coordination
- Social-service resource visibility
- Provider and program information
- Capacity and availability updates
- Referral and access coordination
- Identification of service gaps
- Countywide planning support
Emergency and Recovery Coordination
- Changing organizational status
- Emergency resource visibility
- Community needs monitoring
- Cross-sector situational awareness
- Recovery service coordination
- Resilience and continuity planning
These reflect proposed capabilities being designed in collaboration with prospective partners; they are not descriptions of currently operational functions.
Built around the county community ecosystem.
Interlocal recognizes that community capacity extends beyond any single agency or sector. Its county-centered approach is intended to strengthen visibility and coordination across the organizations communities rely upon.
Community
Partners across the ecosystem
Community
Government & Public Sector
- County & municipal leadership
- Emergency management
- Economic development
Health & Human Services
- Healthcare & behavioral health providers
- Social-service networks
Community & Civic Networks
- Nonprofit organizations
- Faith-based & community groups
- Educational institutions
Business & Philanthropy
- Employers & business partners
- Philanthropic funders
Local enough to reflect community conditions. Broad enough to support coordination.
Counties frequently operate at the intersection of municipalities, public agencies, nonprofit networks, healthcare systems, economic development organizations, and regional partners. A county-centered model can provide a practical foundation for understanding resources, needs, capacities, and geographic differences across a community.
Interlocal is intended to complement and connect existing local knowledge and systems — not to replace emergency management, nonprofit referral, GIS, or government information systems already in use.
Help shape the Interlocal pilot.
Interlocal is conducting discovery conversations with emergency management professionals, economic development leaders, county officials, nonprofit networks, healthcare organizations, and other community partners.
We are seeking practitioners who are willing to discuss:
- Current coordination and information challenges
- Resource and capacity data that are difficult to maintain
- Needs that cross organizational or jurisdictional boundaries
- Priority functions for an initial county or regional pilot
- Potential opportunities for pilot collaboration
Founded at the intersection of research, technology, and local practice.
Interlocal was founded by Dr. Sofia Prysmakova, a public administration scholar focused on emergency management, community resilience, and cross-sector governance networks.
Her funded research and applied projects — with partners including the City of Orlando, Heart of Florida United Way, Second Harvest Food Bank, and the National Science Foundation — span emergency response, disaster recovery, services for displaced populations, food-distribution networks, and coordination across government, nonprofit, healthcare, and community organizations.
In the Greater Atlanta region, she led a multinational resilience initiative backed by the National Science Foundation and the Trans-Atlantic Platform, partnering with more than 20 Metro Atlanta organizations to study how public, nonprofit, and community institutions coordinated during the COVID-19 crisis.
Start a partnership inquiry.
Share a bit about your organization and what you'd like to discuss. We follow up personally with practitioners exploring county-centered coordination.
Partnership inquiries
partnerships@inter-local.org