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…
“Collaboration is important for effecting large-scale changes, but it is difficult, time-consuming, and requires sustained effort on the part of all collaborating parties. Collaboration among organizations within a single sector (education, policy, or advocacy, for example) is easier than collaboration across sectors, where differences in…
“The link between pay for success and building the evidence base for social programs is not always intuitive, but it’s a critical relationship.” In this video, Urban Institute’s Pay for Success Initiative’s “Justin Milner explains how pay for success elevates evidence to innovate the way…
This article from Government Executive discusses an IBM Center for the Business of Government report that examines “collaboration within the context of homeless policy networks … While this report specifically investigates the role of leading in continuum of care (CoC) homeless programs and the leadership…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher In this contribution to SSIR, 100Kin10 Co-founder and Executive Director Talia Milgrom-Elcott discusses networked impact, an emerging model for social change, and offers five key principles for such efforts.
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “The corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature has increasingly explored relationships between civil society and social movements, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and corporations, as well as the role of NGOs in multi-stakeholder governance processes. This paper addresses the challenge…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This paper explores the relationship between business experience in cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) and the co-creation of what we refer to as ‘dynamic capabilities for stakeholder orientation,’ consisting of the four dimensions of (1) sensing, (2) interacting with, (3)…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Some collaboration can be painfully difficult with the result that problems are either ignored or smoothed over until the collaboration falters or disintegrates, or self-interest and personal agendas take over and conflict quickly arises. Collaboration and partnerships work well in…
This case study looks at The Long Beach Courthouse, which “was the first major civic building in the United States to be delivered as a performance-based infrastructure (PBI) public-private partnership (P3) project, in which the developer makes the initial investment and the public sector makes…
“The growing body of literature on partnerships has paid most attention to their implications at the macro level, for society, as well as the meso level, for the partnering organisations. While generating many valuable insights, what has remained underexposed is the micro level, i.e. the…
The Wicked Problems Plaza (WPP) … “is a novel and structured way of facilitating dialogue between stakeholders from different backgrounds. In order to come up with creative — but nevertheless realistic — ideas, approaches to wicked problems need to address their complexity and preferably also…