Dear Readers, As you know, The Intersector Project works to provide free, publicly-available resources to practitioners from the business, government, and non-profit sectors to promote stronger and more effective cross-sector collaborations. We are launching an effort to improve one of our key resources, The Intersector Toolkit: Tools
The Multi-City Innovation Campaign (MCIC) is a intersector partnership among local governments from across the country.
Our weekly briefing keeps you up to date on the latest insights into the intersector and intersector collaboration from the past week.
Several questions emerged at ASPA that we hope researchers and practitioners will lend their expertise and experience to answering.
The site relaunch is key to The Intersector Project’s ongoing efforts to provide practitioners in every sector with the tools they need to implement collaborative solutions to society’s complex problems.
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.
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.