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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…

  • Data Science for Social Good Conference
  • Anissa Tanweer and Brittany Fiore-Gartland
  • 2017

“Recent years have seen growing support for attempts to solve complex social problems through the use of increasingly available, increasingly combinable, and increasingly computable digital data. Sometimes referred to as “data science for social good” (DSSG), these efforts are not concentrated in the hands of…

  • Urban Institute
  • Sarah Gillespie et al.
  • 2017

“In February 2016, the city of Denver and eight private investors closed on the city’s first social impact bond (SIB), an $8.6 million investment to fund a supportive housing program for 250 of the city’s most frequent users of the criminal justice system (box 1)….

  • University of Southern California
  • 2017

“This dissertation is an exploration of collaborative governance in municipal public administration, and the elements that successful collaborations have in common. For this dissertation, the term ‘successful’ means objectives sought after were achieved. As a foundational underpinning of this dissertation, I define collaborative governance as,…

  • Living Cities
  • Jennifer Mayer
  • 2017

“In our latest City Accelerator guide, ‘Resilience, Equity, and Innovation,’ we share the tools and processes four cities, Pittsburgh, Saint Paul, San Francisco and Washington D.C., explored in an effort to increase equity and fund infrastructure. With new approaches to managing public resources, these cities…

  • Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation
  • Robert M. Groves and Adam Neufeld
  • 2017

“The public pays for and provides an incredible amount of data to governments and companies. Yet much of the value of this data is being wasted, remaining in silos rather than being shared to enhance the common good—whether it’s helping governments to stop opioid addiction…

  • Community College Research Center, Teacher's College, Columbia University
  • Melinda Mechur Karp and Valerie Lundy-Wagner
  • 2016

“This brief draws on the experiences of five committed collective impact communities participating in the Ford Foundation’s Corridors to College Success initiative to expose some of the practical challenges of translating the theory of collective impact into action. … Our research has … uncovered challenges…

  • The Aspen Forum for Community Solutions and Jobs for the Future
  • Adria Steinberg and Cheryl Almeida
  • 2016

“This brief shares stories from [Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund] sites, based on conversations among the backbone leaders, site visits by [Jobs for the Future] to each site, and a convening of small cross-sector teams from the sites. The first section offers examples from the sites…

  • IBM Center for Business and Government
  • Patrick Lester
  • 2016

“As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2014, Congress authorized a limited number of local projects targeted to assisting disconnected youth. The Performance Partnership Pilots program currently involves participation from seven different federal departments or agencies and is administered by the Department…