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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…

  • International Journal of Business Innovation and Research
  • Pekka Salmi and Marko Torkkeli
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “The ability to effectively transfer valuable knowledge across organisational boundaries has been shown to be an important determinant of success of cooperation. In this paper, we examine the most important factors facilitating and impeding knowledge transfer in academic-industry…

  • Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • Yongjian Ke, ShouQing Wang, Albert P. Chan, and Esther Cheung
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “An impressive series of content analyses of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) publications between 1998 and 2003 from four internationally renowned construction journals (including the International Journal of Project Management, the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, the Construction Management…

  • Nonprofit Management & Leadership
  • Peter Tsasis
  • 2009

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This article takes a qualitative approach to research in advancing knowledge of the social process by which interorganizational relationships are established and nurtured in non-profit organizations. The findings reveal that a balance of dependence and autonomy is needed…

  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Dorothy Morallos, Adjo Amekudzi, Catherine Ross, and Michael Meyer
  • 2009

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Value for money (VfM) assessment has been used by various public agencies worldwide as a tool to compare the viability of pursuing a project as a public–private partnership (PPP) with traditional procurement. Although sources have described the use of…

  • Economic Affairs
  • Graeme A. Hodge and Carsten Greve
  • 2009

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “This paper argues that evaluations of public–private partnerships thus far point to contradictory results regarding their effectiveness and value‐for‐money. Despite continuing political popularity, greater care is needed to strengthen future evaluations and conduct such assessments away from the policy…

  • International Journal of Public Administration
  • Peter Girard,Robert D. Mohr,Steven C. Deller, and John M. Halstead
  • 2009

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “This study uses quantitative and qualitative survey data on the use of public-private partnership in provision and production of public services by municipalities in predominantly rural New Hampshire (USA). Descriptive analysis suggests that town officials are less satisfied with…

  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Giorgos Kallis, Michael Kiparsky, and Richard Norgaard
  • 2009

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Both for its technological and institutional innovations and for its history of conflicts, California’s water system has been one of the most observed in the world. This article and this Special Issue on the CALFED Bay-Delta Program continue in…

  • Public Works Management & Policy
  • Michael J. Garvin and Doran Bosso
  • 2008

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public-private partnerships (P3) have emerged as a popular strategy for infrastructure development worldwide. Within the United States, the momentum for P3 arrangements is building as states put enabling legislation in place, public authorities search for expedient solutions for…

  • Public Administration Review
  • Beth Gazley
  • 2008

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Privatization research lacks an understanding of the scope and nature of informal service delivery relationships between nonprofits and local government. This article reports on a study of local service delivery partnerships in Georgia using survey and interview data….

  • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  • Sara J. S. Nikolic and Tomas M. Koontz
  • 2008

“Across a range of issue areas, governments are increasingly collaborating with nonprofit organizations (NPOs) to achieve policy goals. In the environmental arena, growing concerns over nonpoint source pollution have led governments to work through NPOs rather than rely on traditional regulatory approaches. But past studies…