Strategic collaboration in local government
This paper looks at “strategic collaboration
September 09, 2016
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Linking Workers to Job Opportunities in the Greater Cincinnati Area
Through the 2000s, the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana tri-state area faced a shortage of workers equipped with the skills to match the labor demands of Greater Cincinnati area employers. Unemployment in the region was at 8.6 percent, and 50 percent of the workforce lacked the necessary post-secondary education
September 09, 2016
Creating a Technical Training Program in New Hampshire
Safran USA and Albany Engineered Composites partnered in the 1990s to create innovative aerospace products. In 2012, their partnership yielded a new type of fan blade for airplane engines. Constructed of composite materials, the blade promised greater cost- and fuel-efficiency for the airplanes used by
September 09, 2016
Evaluating Complexity: Propositions for Improving Practice
✴︎ Available with free registration “While evaluation has traditionally focused on assessing programmatic impact according to pre-determined indicators, a new approach is needed for evaluating complex initiatives, as well as initiatives operating in complex environments where progress is not linear, predictable, or controllable. Nine propositions can
September 09, 2016
Improving Labor Relations in Jamestown
Shortly after Stan Lundine took office as Mayor of Jamestown in 1970, the city’s unemployment rate had reached 10.2 percent — more than twice the national average. In 1971, nearly 1,000 workers were unemployed, and an additional 2,800 jobs were in jeopardy as the largest
September 09, 2016
Evaluating cross-sector partnerships
“This paper aims at developing a framework for evaluation of cross-sector partnerships that allows for further knowledge production in this field. With a general evaluation model, partnerships in different geographical settings and with different aims can be analysed within the same framework whereby broader insights
September 09, 2016
Does Public Value Matter for Collaboration? Evidence from an Experimental Analysis
“This study concerns approaches to discerning, measuring, and assessing public values and the ways of creating them. In recent years there has been tremendous growth in both theory and practice associated with managing public service delivery through network structures. Much of this research has tried
September 09, 2016
Uncommon Partners: The power of foundation and corporation collaboration
This report is “intended only to provide a preliminary exploration of the rationale and potential for foundation-corporation collaborations, together with a framework for constructing them, and a few abbreviated case studies that suggest their power.” The authors write that their objective is “to help frame
September 09, 2016
Ingredients for Successful Partnerships
“For the development of new cross-sector partnerships it is required to know what the essence of successful partnership projects is. Which factors influence success or failure of partnerships is highly related to the specific context where partnerships operate. … Researchers and practitioners aim to understand
September 09, 2016
Advancing the Debate: Cross-Sector Partnerships, Business and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
“Cross-sector partnerships will be key to reaching those left behind in the MDG era and, ultimately, to achieving the post-2015 agenda. However, in order for such partnerships to succeed, this policy paper explores why: It is imperative to acknowledge and address the current lack of trust
September 09, 2016