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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…

To help users find relevant, quality resources from our Resource Library, we create curated lists on a variety of topics, bringing important practitioner- and academic-oriented work to the forefront.

  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Daniel Gooch, Asimina Vasalou, and Laura Benton
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Impact is embedded in today’s research culture, with increasing importance being placed on the value of research to society. In interdisciplinary and cross-sector projects, team members may hold distinct views on the types of impact they want to create….

  • Public Management Review
  • Carey Doberstein
  • 2016

✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Collaborative governance institutions consisting of government and civil society actors often emerge to solve complex policy problems. Yet decades of research on collaborative governance has found that realizing the ‘collaborative advantage’ is often very difficult given the multitude of actors,…

  • International Affairs
  • Madeline Carr
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Despite its centrality in the national cyber security strategies of the US and the UK, the public-private partnership is a nebulous arrangement, which is especially problematic in the context of critical infrastructure protection. Privately owned and operated critical infrastructure…

  • American Pediatrics
  • Megan Sandel, Elena Faugno, Angela Mingo, Jessie Cannon, Kymberly Byrd, Dolores Acevedo Garcia, Sheena Collier, Elizabeth McClure, and Renée Boynton Jarrett
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Population health is associated with the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods. There is considerable scientific and policy interest in community-level interventions to alleviate child poverty. Intergenerational poverty is associated with inequitable access to opportunities. Improving opportunity structures within neighborhoods may…

  • Business & Society
  • Michelle Shumate, Yuli Patrick Hsieh, and Amy O’Connor
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Using the symbiotic sustainability model as a framework, this research investigates how many and with which businesses top non-profit organizations report partnerships. We examined the websites of the 122 largest, most recognizable U.S. non-profits. These websites included information about…

  • Public Administration Review
  • Younsung Kim and Nicole Darnall
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “While many scholars have discussed the merits of collaborative governance, especially for addressing complicated modern policy challenges, the literature has paid less attention to how business can serve as an effective collaborative partner during the formation of mandatory policies…

  • Policy Studies Journal
  • Tyler Scott and Craig Thomas
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “The public policy and public management literatures together support a vibrant discussion of collaborative governance. Much of this scholarship takes a broad perspective focusing on questions such as what collaborative governance is; why collaborative governance emerges; or why individuals…

  • Scandinavian Journal of Management
  • Annmarie Ryan and Lisa O’Malley
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This paper considers the mutual value co-creation that can occur when both parties in a cross sector partnership learn to innovate within the relationship. Despite suggestions that there are often asymmetrical returns to the business partner, non-profit partners also…

  • Community Development
  • Jeff Raderstrong and Tynesia Boyea-Robinson
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “How to better involve community members in collective impact initiatives has been a central question for many collective impact practitioners. This article presents a synthesis of research surrounding the questions of why community members must be more involved in…

  • International Journal of Innovation and Learning
  • María Jesús Barroso-Méndez, Clementina Galera-Casquet, and Víctor Valero-Amaro
  • 2016

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “In recent years, there has been growing awareness that the solution of social problems requires the joint action of different actors. In this sense, cross-sector social partnerships (CSSPs), particularly, partnerships between businesses and NPO, have become widely adopted by…