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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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…
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…
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…
✴︎ 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’…
“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…
Colton Crossing, in Southern California’s San Bernardino County, is one of the busiest railway junctions in the United States, serving as many as 120 trains per day — causing trains to idle at the crossing for more than 50 minutes on average and up to…
This Toolkit provides practical knowledge for practitioners from government, business, and non-profit sectors to diagnose, design, implement, and assess cross-sector collaborations. While collaboration can refer to a broad range of interactions between multiple parties, The Intersector Project focuses on collaborations characterized by shared decision-making processes…
The Augusta Warrior Project (AWP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of “warriors” — veterans, as well as military personnel who are in between tours — in the Central Savannah River Area. AWP estimates that there are over 66,000 warriors living in…
In the winter of 2010, snowstorms in Boston resulted in adverse road conditions and traffic delays, causing parents to worry about their children riding home on public school buses. During the blizzards, Chris Osgood, Co-Chair of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM), was…
The percentage of foreign-born U. S. residents has quadrupled since the 1970s, reaching over 40 million — nearly 14 percent of the population — in 2012. Tom Wahlrab, Executive Director of Dayton Ohio’s Human Relations Council (HRC), was aware of the challenges immigrants face building…
“Collaborative governance draws from diverse realms of practice and research in public administration. This article synthesizes and extends a suite of conceptual frameworks, research findings, and practice-based knowledge into an integrative framework for collaborative governance. The framework specifies a set of nested dimensions that encompass…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Collaborative Governance is the first book to offer solutions by demonstrating how government at every level can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively. John Donahue and Richard Zeckhauser show…
“This guide focuses on collaborative governance, an emerging set of concepts and practices that offer prescriptions for inclusive, deliberative, and often consensus-oriented approaches to planning, problem solving, and policymaking. Collaborative governance typically describes those processes in which government actors are participants and/or objects of the…
“For 30 years, well into the 1970s, factories along the Acushnet River emptied waste laden with Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) that flowed into the harbor. PCBs, once widely used as liquid coolants and insulators in industrial equipment, are dangerous environmental pollutants. … The U. S. Environmental…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Because they reflect clashing beliefs about the desired ends and means of public policy, value conflicts are challenging and sometimes even impossible to resolve. If the increasingly widespread use of collaborative governance is to bear fruit, researchers and…