Each month, there is new, fascinating research emerging that provides practical insight into cross-sector collaboration. To keep our readers up to date, we compile a bimonthly briefing that captures this research, and publish it on our blog — for researchers who want to stay up-to-date on progress in the field of cross-sector collaboration and practitioners who are interested in how this research may be applicable to their work.
Adopting an innovative research model known as “convergence,” this collaboration will fund an NSF Ideas Lab that brings expertise from the physical sciences to research in life science.
“This is an unprecedented public-private partnership and potentially a national model for the study and promotion of food.”
Government, non-profit, and industry groups have partnered to create a one-of-a-kind testbed that promises to advance algae as a source of environmentally friendly fuel.
This video highlights Clean Energy Works Portland – a pilot program, which we profiled in a recent case study, that saves energy and creates high-quality jobs for Portland residents.
This recent video from the American Planning Association highlights the intersector beginnings and remarkable outcomes of an initiative recently profiled in our case study library.
Although it lies in the poorest metro area in the United States, “Brownsville proves a culture of health can be built when resources are scarce but partnerships are strong.”
Best Friends Animal Society, PetSmart, and the local Animal Care & Control Center have teamed up to “save the community’s cats.”
Bayes Impact deploys private-sector practitioner "data science teams" to work with civic and nonprofit organizations on what they call “high impact, high feasibility projects.”
A collaborative working group in Virginia leads to greater awareness, increased confidence, and dramatic rise in brownfields redevelopment within the state.
RainWatch is an emergency-management and climatology tool whose purpose is to enable the city to respond to major weather events as they occur.