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.
For many of our leaders, communicating goals with financial supporters or external partners and providing progress reports allowed them to build trust and continue a project that may have otherwise stalled.
"There is a need — and this is something that is some of the most important work that’s been done at the Center for Business and Government over the last decade — for approaches that transcend."
Summers’ talk was much less about abstract theories than it was about understanding the challenges facing the economy and developing practical solutions.
The first step of solving a problem that spans sectors is to decide which strategy holds the most promise, and if that strategy is collaboration, the second and crucial step is choosing tools from The Intersector Project Toolkit.
"This is why strategy must be co-created and co-evolve among multiple organizations, rather than be shaped independently."
“From a cross-sector perspective, the principles also bridge the policy-practice gap by serving as a comprehensive framework for food and agriculture companies to collaborate with governments, UN agencies and civil society organisations.”
There is clear potential for intersector collaboration to foster infrastructure jobs, both directly through technical education programs like P-TECH, and indirectly through projects requiring infrastructure design and maintenance, like Colton Crossing.
We wondered: Could the lessons from Shape Up Sommerville be ramped up exponentially to reach children across America? ChildObesity180 is striving to answer that question.
My own response – unsurprisingly – was to observe that intersector collaboration, in the process of resolving specific problems like environmental conservation and infrastructure, also indirectly addresses the broader problems of unemployment.
While the possibilities for revitalizing Detroit are nearly endless, Write A House focused on one thing – matching writers with houses – and enlisted partners who shared that vision.