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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.

  • CRC Press
  • John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, and Laura Bloomberg
  • 2015

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher This book “brings together a stellar cast of thinkers to explore issues of public and cross-sector decision-making within a framework of democratic civic engagement. It offers an integrative approach to understanding and applying the concepts of creating public value, public…

  • Journal of Management in Engineering
  • Junxiao Liu et al.
  • 2015

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been widely used in the procurement of economic and social infrastructure projects. Since the operation of more and more PPP projects, there have been a number of explorations on the factors that contribute to their success….

  • Public Administration Review
  • Laurence J. O'Toole Jr.
  • 2015

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Published in 1997, the article ‘Treating Networks Seriously: Practical and Research-Based Agendas in Public Administration’ outlined the importance of networks for the field of public administration and suggested a series of research agendas that should be pursued. That argument has…

  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • Dana O’Donovan and Shruti Sehra
  • 2015

“When two organizations bond across sectoral lines, how do you keep the fire going?” ask the authors of this SSIR piece. They present lessons about what it takes to sustain a collaborative, cross-sector effort, and expand its impact over time. “There is a lot of…

  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
  • Chris Cornforth, John Paul Hayes, and Siv Vangen
  • 2015

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “As many of the challenges facing society are too complex to be addressed by single organizations working alone, non-profit organizations are increasingly working in collaboration with public authorities. The governance of non-profit–public collaborations is important for their effectiveness,…

  • Public Management Review
  • Christopher D. Higgins and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
  • 2015

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Joint venture public–private partnerships (PPPs) allow partners to share in the risks and rewards of joint production. But the literature offers little theoretical guidance on assessing performance and accountability in this type of PPP. This article fills this…

  • Public Management Review
  • Mariateresa Torchia, Andrea Calabrò, and Michèle Morner
  • 2015

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become popular worldwide as a way of improving health care service delivery. In order to enhance our knowledge of PPPs in the health care sector, we conduct a systematic review of forty-six articles published…

  • EY
  • 2015

“This report presents a strategic overview of best practices in public-private partnerships to accelerate investment in transport corridors and activate their economic gains. The core characteristics of successful projects across collaboration, capital, and risk and project management are explored, with a clear strategy for governments…