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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…

  • The American Review of Public Administration
  • Chris Koski, Saba Siddiki, Abdul-Akeem Sadiq, and Julia Carboni
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Representation is a hallmark of democratic governance. Widely studied within traditional modes of governance, representation is less studied in alternative governance settings, such as collaborative governance arrangements. Collaborative governance arrangements are specifically designed to encourage inclusion and participation…

  • Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration
  • Adam Zerrenner
  • 2016

“The Edwards Aquifer case provides a historical overview of one of the most contentious water disputes in the United States. The case provides an in-depth analysis of how this entrenched, 70 year old water dispute was ultimately resolved through a consensus-based, multi-stakeholder, collaborative process.”

  • ReThink Health
  • Jane Erickson, Jane Branscomb, and Bobby Milstein
  • 2015

“Leaders from a broad range of sectors, including health care but also social services, public health, other governmental bodies, business, academia, and more, are working together to reimagine and redesign the diverse systems that interact to affect regional health. Participants in these multi-sector partnerships are…

  • The Intersector Project
  • 2015

From The Intersector Project’s “Research to Practice” series, this article looks closely at scholarly research and highlights key facts, actionable takeaways, and additional resources practitioners can turn to for related guidance. Food policy councils (FPCs) are increasingly common in the United States. These collaborative governing…

  • Harvard Business School
  • Allen S. Grossman and Ann B. Lombard
  • 2015

“This report calls on business leaders across America to take stock of their efforts to improve pre-kindergarten through 12 (pre-K–12) public education and commit to an innovative approach called ‘Collective Impact.’ Collective Impact (CI) is a community endeavor that addresses fundamental weaknesses in the U.S….

  • Public Administration Review
  • Saba N. Siddiki, Julia L. Carboni, Chris Koski, and Abdul-Akeem Sadiq
  • 2015

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Local food system governance increasingly occurs in collaborative venues at the local, state, and regional levels. Prominent examples of such are food policy councils (FPCs). FPCs take a systemic approach to improve local food systems by including diverse stakeholders…