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Whether you’re working on a local collective impact initiative or a national public-private partnership; whether you’re a practitioner or a researcher; whether you’re looking for basics or a detailed look at a particular topic, our Resource Library can help you find the information and tools you need for your cross-sector thinking and practice. The Library — which includes resources from research organizations, advisory groups, training organizations, academic centers and journals, and other sources — spans issue areas, sectors, and partnership types.

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  • Academic Courses and Programs on Cross-sector Collaboration

    • The Intersector Project
    • 2017

    There are a number of academic courses, programs, and certificates offered in the United States in which cross-sector collaboration is a major theme. We hope this list will be useful for educators who are interested in how this topic is being taught at universities across the country…

  • What Barriers? Insights from Solving Problems through Cross-Sector Partnership

    • Living Cities
    • Allison Gold
    • 2013

    In this paper, Living Cities offers “a strategic framework for cross-sector partnerships including describing and defining the traits that make up a strong foundation, factors that influence success, and behaviors of high-impact efforts. In addition to the theory, the paper steeps these ideas in four…

  • Collective Impact

    • Stanford Social Innovation Review
    • John Kania and Mark Kramer
    • 2011

    This landmark SSIR article introduced the concept of collective impact and its five conditions of collective success. “Collaboration is nothing new. The social sector is filled with examples of partnerships, networks, and other types of joint efforts. But collective impact initiatives are distinctly different. Unlike…

  • Designing and Implementing Cross-Sector Collaborations: Needed and Challenging

    • Public Administration Review
    • John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, and Melissa Middleton Stone
    • 2015

    ✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Theoretical and empirical work on collaboration has proliferated in the last decade. The authors’ 2006 article on designing and implementing cross-sector collaborations was a part of, and helped stimulate, this growth. This article reviews the authors’ and others’…

  • Designing and Managing Cross-Sector Collaboration: a Case Study in Reducing Traffic Congestion

    • The IBM Center for the Business of Government
    • John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Melissa M. Stone, and Emily O. Saunoi-Sandgren
    • 2009

    “This report focuses specifically on a cross-sector collaborative effort to significantly reduce traffic congestion in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota. The organizers of the program concluded that a collaborative, multi-modal approach was crucial to making real headway on a longstanding, costly, nearly intractable…

  • U.S. Department of Transportation
  • Sharon Greene et al.
  • 2017

“This discussion paper was developed for transportation professionals who may be involved in a Public-Private Partnership (P3) concession project. P3 concessions are an integrated service delivery approach where a public transportation agency enters a contractual agreement with a private sector entity to deliver a service…

  • University of Maryland
  • Emma Weaver
  • 2017

“Recently in the U.S., Public-Private Partnerships (P3) have been increasingly utilized as a mechanism for closing the gap between revenues and expenditures in transportation mega-projects, however public perception remains a major challenge to successful utilization. Recent projects have run into issues with public perception particularly…

  • Utilities Policy
  • R. Richard Geddes and Eoin Reeves
  • 2017

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “The capacity of individual U.S. states to utilize public-private partnerships (PPPs) is influenced by the existence and nature of PPP enabling laws. We examine the nature of PPP enabling legislation and how it varies across states. Although commentators stress…

  • Urban Affairs Review
  • Susan E. Clarke
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “The renaissance in place-based, cross-sector local collaboratives in American cities is distinguished by diverse strategies and actors. This exploratory research compares early stages of two collaborative initiatives — one relying on traditional state-centric collaboration models and the other drawing…

  • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  • Eric J. Boyer, David M. Van Slyke, and Juan D. Rogers
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This article investigates the roles and impacts of public involvement in public-private partnerships (PPPs). Our findings contribute to the literature on public-private collaborations by demonstrating the ways that the facilitation of deliberative activities can provide administrative benefits to PPPs….

  • Journal of Health Organization and Management
  • Colleen Casey, Jianling Li, and Michele Berry
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “The purpose of this paper is to analyze the institutional and social forces that influence collaborative data sharing practices in cross-sector interorganizational networks. The analysis focusses on the data sharing practices between professionals in the transportation and public health…