Can intersector collaboration drive brownfield policy?
A collaborative working group in Virginia leads to greater awareness, increased confidence, and dramatic rise in brownfields redevelopment within the state.
August 20, 2014
August 2014
Seattle takes cross-sector approach to major weather events, climate change
RainWatch is an emergency-management and climatology tool whose purpose is to enable the city to respond to major weather events as they occur.
August 18, 2014
Intersector collaboration brings high tech resources to Environmental Defense Fund
By mounting special sensors to Google’s well-known “street cars” EDF has been able to map and report thousands of natural gas leaks.
August 15, 2014
Philadelphia’s new Innovation Lab fosters collaboration across sectors
The lab's goal is to provide a space for city employees to innovate and problem solve alongside community partners and other non-city stakeholders.
August 13, 2014
AVID Center engages urban leaders to increase college readiness
The AVID system targets youth with potential and a desire to succeed, but with typically little to no knowledge about the college admissions process or support to make their dreams a reality.
August 11, 2014
Providing affordable housing through intersector collaboration
The six-story, $11 million Temple Place Apartments will house 40 one- and two-bedroom apartments for low- and moderate-income residents when it’s completed in 2015.
August 08, 2014
The City University of New York brings intersector collaboration to the arts
The CUNY Dance Initiative Program can inspire others to think and act “across sectors, systems, and stakeholders.”
August 06, 2014
Cross-sector collaboration leads to job opportunities in Greater Cincinnati
PCW has proven to be a game-changer in linking low-wage workers and jobseekers to the training and credentialing programs that lead to good jobs.
August 04, 2014
East Lake Villages Part II: “Crossing the divides that usually separate us”
In this video, Carol Naughton, Senior Vice President of Purpose Built Communities, speaks about the intersector collaboration that revitalized East Lake Meadows.
August 01, 2014
East Lake Villages Part I: Trusting Relationships, Intersector Success
After decades of failed projects and programs, the question of how to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty led to the realization that the problem was too big to be solved by one sector alone.
July 29, 2014