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Whether you’re working on a local collective impact initiative or a national public-private partnership; whether you’re a practitioner or a researcher; whether you’re looking for basics or a detailed look at a particular topic, our Resource Library can help you find the information and tools you need for your cross-sector thinking and practice. The Library — which includes resources from research organizations, advisory groups, training organizations, academic centers and journals, and other sources — spans issue areas, sectors, and partnership types.

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  • Academic Courses and Programs on Cross-sector Collaboration

    • The Intersector Project
    • 2017

    There are a number of academic courses, programs, and certificates offered in the United States in which cross-sector collaboration is a major theme. We hope this list will be useful for educators who are interested in how this topic is being taught at universities across the country…

  • What Barriers? Insights from Solving Problems through Cross-Sector Partnership

    • Living Cities
    • Allison Gold
    • 2013

    In this paper, Living Cities offers “a strategic framework for cross-sector partnerships including describing and defining the traits that make up a strong foundation, factors that influence success, and behaviors of high-impact efforts. In addition to the theory, the paper steeps these ideas in four…

  • Collective Impact

    • Stanford Social Innovation Review
    • John Kania and Mark Kramer
    • 2011

    This landmark SSIR article introduced the concept of collective impact and its five conditions of collective success. “Collaboration is nothing new. The social sector is filled with examples of partnerships, networks, and other types of joint efforts. But collective impact initiatives are distinctly different. Unlike…

  • Designing and Implementing Cross-Sector Collaborations: Needed and Challenging

    • Public Administration Review
    • John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, and Melissa Middleton Stone
    • 2015

    ✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Theoretical and empirical work on collaboration has proliferated in the last decade. The authors’ 2006 article on designing and implementing cross-sector collaborations was a part of, and helped stimulate, this growth. This article reviews the authors’ and others’…

  • Designing and Managing Cross-Sector Collaboration: a Case Study in Reducing Traffic Congestion

    • The IBM Center for the Business of Government
    • John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Melissa M. Stone, and Emily O. Saunoi-Sandgren
    • 2009

    “This report focuses specifically on a cross-sector collaborative effort to significantly reduce traffic congestion in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota. The organizers of the program concluded that a collaborative, multi-modal approach was crucial to making real headway on a longstanding, costly, nearly intractable…

To help users find relevant, quality resources from our Resource Library, we create curated lists on a variety of topics, bringing important practitioner- and academic-oriented work to the forefront.

  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • Silvia Dorado, Dwight E. Giles, and Theodora C. Welch
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This article furthers knowledge on cross-sector partnerships. It distinguishes between partnerships that produce predefined outcomes and those that produce co-defined ones. Predefined outcomes are defined by one partner prior to the formation of the partnership and could have…

  • Public Administration Review
  • Richard C. Feiock and Hee Soun Jang
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Despite the growing role that contracts with nonprofits play in local service delivery, only limited attention has been directed to why some cities rely more on nonprofit organizations to produce services or how political institutions influence the role…

  • Construction Management and Economics
  • Jingfeng Yuan, Alex Yajun Zeng, Miroslaw J. Skibniewski, and Qiming Li
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been applied widely in the global construction market. During the life cycle of PPP projects, their performance could be affected by a number of factors and their interactions, which might cause the inefficiency and…

  • California Management Review
  • Young Hoon Kwak, YingYi Chih, and C. William Ibbs
  • 2009

“Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as one of the major approaches for delivering infrastructure projects in recent years. If properly formulated and managed, a PPP can provide a number of benefits to the public sector such as: alleviating the financial burden on the public…

  • Routledge
  • Lisa Blomgren Bingham and Rosemary O'Leary
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public managers no longer are unitary leaders of unitary organizations — instead, they often find themselves convening, negotiating, mediating, and collaborating across borders. ‘Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management’ brings together a rich variety of big picture perspectives…

  • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  • Craig R. Smith
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Collaboration is an increasingly important topic in the public administration and management literatures. A preponderance of studies focuses on how managers can build trust between the government and collaborative partners by means of behavioral attributes and managerial skill. In this…

  • Commuity Development Journal
  • Flaminio Squazzoni
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This paper deals with the pivotal role played by community development corporations (CDCs) in local economic initiatives from the bottom-up. These non-profit organizations are challenging the top-down approach of political decision making, mobilizing community assets, connecting inside and outside resources,…

  • The Partnering Initiative
  • Eva Halper
  • 2009

“Moving On addresses the exit aspects of a partnership – a part of the cycle often unplanned or mishandled. The Moving On toolbook focuses on the exit aspects of a partnership a part of the cycle often unplanned or mishandled. It also looks at the…

  • Public Administration Review
  • Sharon S. Dawes, Anthony M. Cresswell, and Theresa A. Pardo
  • 2009

“The importance and challenges of networking and knowledge sharing for attacking wicked problems have been aptly described by Weber and Khademian in their provocative PAR essay, ‘Wicked Problems, Knowledge Challenges, and Collaborative Capacity Builders in Network Settings’ (March/April 2008). We argue in this essay, however,…