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…
✴︎ Available with free registration This Working Group guide is for a meeting focused on identifying indicators and/or key data points for shared measurement and can be used with the Template for Shared Metrics. Specifically, the resource guides partners in: Recommending the key indicators linked to…
✴︎ Available with free registration “While all initiatives play out differently due to local content, this checklist of suggested activities can help support the implementation of a collective impact initiative, to be executed by the backbone organization and initiative partners. This checklist was developed through…
✴︎ Available with free registration “This template is a tool for action planning work groups to use in laying out the structure and plan for implementing strategies to help reach the initiative’s goals. The template consists of three sections to guide the structure and planning…
✴︎ Available with free registration “This toolkit includes a number of tools for the formation of a Steering Committee. … The tools have been generalized to be applicable across contexts; however, because no two collective impact efforts are the same, these resources should be considered…
✴︎ Available with free registration “The backbone organization in a collective impact effort both helps maintain overall strategic coherence and coordinates and manages the day-to-day operations and implementation of work, including stakeholder engagement, communications, data collection and analysis, and other responsibilities. The following resources are…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Shape Up Somerville is a city-wide collective impact campaign to reduce obesity and promote health in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. A resource for collective impact backbone organizations, funders, and partners, this case study provides an overview of…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Partners for a Competitive Workforce is a collective impact initiative in Cincinnati, Ohio, focused on ensuring that employers have the talent they need to compete, and people have the skills they need to get good jobs to advance…
“StriveTogether aimed to improve education outcomes by coordinating the actions of diverse community stakeholders — nonprofit service providers, school districts, government, parents, businesses and others. StriveTogether had an intense focus on collective impact — “the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to…
“Leaders and organizations are acknowledging that even their best individual efforts can’t stack up against today’s complex and interconnected problems,” writes Living Cities President & CEO Ben Hecht in this contribution to HBR.org. “They are putting aside self-interests and collaborating to build a new civic…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher This report looks at collective impact as a framework for improving “outcomes for opportunity youth — the nearly 7 million Americans between 16 and 24 who are neither employed nor in school. Top Takeaways Opportunity youth face a…