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This book is “a comprehensive guide to public sector collaboration with private and non-profit organizations for better service delivery. Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration tackles the issues inherent in partnerships with non-governmental actors for public service delivery, highlighting the choices available and the accompanying challenges and opportunities that arise. Based on research, interviews with public, private, and non-profit sector leaders, and considerable analysis of organizations involved in public-private-non-profit collaborations, the book provides insight into cross-sector collaboration at the global, federal, state, and local levels. … Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration provides specific examples and a framework for public managers to make strategic choices about how to engage private and non-profit actors in delivering public goods and services while ensuring the public interest. The book provides effective methods for choosing, designing, governing, and evaluating networks, partnerships, and independent public-services providers, with in-depth discussion encompassing:

• Analysis and engagement of cross-sector organizations
• Fostering democratic accountability in the public interest
• Collaborative approaches (including contracts, networks, and partnerships) and the issues associated with each type of arrangement
• Leadership and organizational learning in cross-sector collaboration”