“How do you help people quickly understand a complex challenge together, generate practical pathways to action, and build genuine commitment to working together, all at the same time? CoCreative developed the following method for leaders at a public company who wanted to collaborate with their
“Often, the large scale collaborative work needed to meaningfully address a complex problem depends on one or more organizations to provide ongoing support such as facilitation, convening, research, evaluation, and fundraising. Although the term ‘backbone’ comes from collective impact literature, the concept of a backbone
✴︎ Available with free registration The easiest and least effective way for partnership to emerge is to just let them happen.” But this resource outlines “a five-step process that individuals or groups can use to be much more deliberate in building strategic partnerships” and to “determine
“Given the growing number of partnerships, monitoring and evaluation of, for, and through partnerships faces new challenges. Partnering raises critical questions about the extent to which collaboration actually adds value in terms of both process and outcomes, and how judgments are made (Atkinson, 2005). Evaluating
“Partnerships between public sector, private sector and civil society have become increasingly prominent during the past years. The three sectors are acknowledged to be interdependent, and the objectives of one sector can often only be achieved in partnership with participants from the other sectors. Partnerships
Created for recipients of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP), “this toolkit has something for everyone. For programs with little partner experience, the toolkit provides how-to’s and basic information on starting partnerships or conducting
“Partnerships are an important mechanism for building and sustaining capacity among Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC) programs. Partnerships bring together a diversity of skills and resources for more effective outcomes. By making the best use of different but complementary resources, partnerships can increase program efficiency. To
“Project-based cross-sector partnerships to address social issues (CSSPs) occur in four “arenas”: business-non-profit, business-government, government-non-profit, and trisector. Research on CSSPs is multidisciplinary, and different conceptual ‘platforms’ are used: resource dependence, social issues, and societal sector platforms. This article consolidates recent literature on CSSPs to improve
In this blog post for The Intersector Project, Kirsten Foot looks at the tensions that can arise from uneven power dynamics in cross-sector collaboration, drawing from her research on partnerships to counter human trafficking. “The communication in and through which collaboration occurs is simultaneously interpersonal
“The GlobeScan/SustainAbility Surveys offer a unique, collaborative platform that uses research-driven insights, including targeted surveys of the most influential thought leaders in the sustainability arena from over eighty countries, to explore the biggest sustainability challenges.” “For this survey, we asked expert stakeholders representing business, government, NGOs,