This Nonprofit Quarterly article takes a critical look at collective impact: “FSG was able to popularize the concept of collective impact — which is, arguably, a good thing: we do, of course, want people working together. But we believe that the systems-change approach, while more
“In ‘Social Entrepreneurship’s All-American Mind Trap,’ published in the Nonprofit Quarterly’s summer 2017 issue, Fredrik Andersson and Ruth McCambridge explore how this type of social-purpose initiative is ‘being imaged and defined as an act primarily of an individual rather than a collective.’ The authors present
“Welcome to Husch Blackwell’s inaugural Public-Private Partnership Trends Report. During the past year, our team reviewed the agreements for every public-private partnership (P3) project in the United States that reached a financial close between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2017. Our findings and insights
“We at Spark Policy Institute and ORS Impact are excited to release the findings of a ground-breaking study in partnership with 25 collective impact sites in the U.S. and Canada as part of the Collective Impact Research Study. The study sought to shed light on a
“Collaboration is appealing in concept but challenging in practice. While extensive resources … exist online to support collaborative efforts, the fact remains that we human beings are simply not very good at making ‘we’ work. And yet, most changemakers today acknowledge that to address the
“The Office of School Design and Charter Partnerships (OSDCP) at the New York City Department of Education (DOE) developed and executed a plan for district-charter collaboration, which they called the District-Charter Partnerships (DCP) initiative. This document describes the results of a mixed-method study of DCP
This SSIR article looks at one of many ‘healthy campus’ movements that have taken off at universities across the United States. “At the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), we laid the groundwork for the Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) in 2012 to create a social
“Hurricane Katrina placed tremendous stress on America’s emergency response systems. No single agency possessed the capacity required to address the needs of those affected by the hurricane. One element seen lacking in the immediate response to the hurricane was a well-coordinated effort taking advantage of
“The scale of society's evolving challenges gradually surpasses the capacity of the public sector to address them. Coping with these challenges requires budget-short governments to look for innovative ways to transform and improve their operations and service provisioning models. While in many cases transformation starts
“Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have been justified because they release public funds or save on distortionary taxes. However, the resources saved by a government that does not finance the upfront investment are offset by giving up future revenue flows to the concessionaire. If a PPP can