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“Trust is a foundational element for effective collaboration. Since lack of understanding and trust can hamper effectiveness, building trust is a priority and a challenge for public managers partnering across organizational and sectoral boundaries. Interviews with cross-sector collaborators indicate that the challenge is based in part on inadequate cross-sector understanding. Studying successful cross-sector partnerships can thus inform scholarship and practice. This article applies existing trust frameworks to qualitative partnership data. Findings reveal that trust is exhibited in different ways, depending on the type of partnership. While scholarship calls for integrated treatments of trust, this research suggests that collaborative trust may be interpreted differently across sectors and partnerships.”