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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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…
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…
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…
✴︎ 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’…
“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…
“Many leaders in business, civil society and government realize that for the world’s economy to fully derive the value inherent in technological innovation, a robust, coordinated system of global cyber resilience is essential to effectively mitigate the risk of cyberattacks. This view is beginning to…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Cross-sector interactions are regularly seen in healthcare, education, defense, public safety, and other social service contexts where the public interest and the private individual intersect. While interest in cross-sector relationships is neither new nor novel, the organizational dynamics and contexts…
“This report is the result of a study into potential areas of public-private partnerships for space capability development that could meet NASA’s mission objectives as well as generate significant economic returns to the American economy. The study focused on 8 areas of space capability development…
“There is an increasing recognition among the sectors — government, philanthropy, and business — that they may achieve greater impact by working together to solve problems of shared interest. While public private partnerships are not new, they have tended to be episodic, time-limited and ad…
“Collaboration between the health sector and other sectors might generate new opportunities to improve health, but we need to understand the degree to which such cross-sector collaboration occurs, whether it has positive effects, and if so, the factors that underlie successful cross-sector, health-improving initiatives. This…
“The heightened interest in placemaking by a range of diverse partners and funders calls for the need to scale efforts, create a community of learning, and collaboratively address challenges. The practice requires active communication between placemakers about successes, failures, and lessons learned. This paper highlights…
“The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Office of Innovative Program Delivery (IPD) assists states and local governments in developing knowledge, skills, and abilities in innovative finance techniques. Public-private partnerships (P3s) are one form of innovative finance. … A key IPD activity is the development of a…
✴︎ Available with free registration “The Guide to Evaluating Collective Impact … [offers] practitioners, funders, and evaluators a way to think about, plan for, and implement different performance measurement and evaluation activities. This guide’s three goals are to: Discuss the role of continuous learning and…
“For the last five years, the Partnerships Resource Centre has been actively involved in developing and sharing knowledge on cross-sector partnerships around the world. One activity that we have systematically tried is to survey practitioners on their experience with partnerships for a large variety of…
“This systematic review synthesizes knowledge on multi-sector partnerships for sustainability. The review set out to address one major research question and four sub-questions: What best practices enable firms to collaborate with other organizations to advance sustainable business? What different forms do collaborative partnerships take, and…