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 only with purchase from publisher “In this paper we analyze whether cross-sector partnerships enable companies to respond to the specific conditions at the base of the pyramid (BOP). We develop three hypotheses in which we argue how cross-sector partnerships support companies to face…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This article is a theoretical contribution to reconsidering the boundaries that are central features of collaborative public management. We identify two contrasting ways of doing boundary work: one oriented to treating them as barriers that promote separation and…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public management and policy scholars have empirically demonstrated that in complex policy arenas, governments depend on the collaboration of policy actors outside their direct control to produce needed goods and services. Government-sponsored shared-cost programs are one of the…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Public-private partnership (PPP) projects specify outputs rather than inputs. While changes are inevitable over long concession periods, output specifications should facilitate the negotiation of foreseeable changes. An experimental approach based on game theory was adopted to evaluate the…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “This paper presents a theory of the role of culture in collaborative policy networks. It builds on the literature that analyzes the factors related to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of collaborative arrangements by demonstrating the importance of…
“Companies are increasingly expected to join with other organizations — both public and private — to address social and environmental problems,” write McKinsey & Co’s Marco Albani and Kimberly Henderson. In this article, Albani and Henderson offer seven ways to make such alliances successful, including…
This article in Government Executive describes the Silicon Valley Talent Partnership — “a major cross-sector collaboration that promotes public-private partnership projects in California’s Silicon Valley” — and interviews Executive Director Lea King to discuss how $1 million in new funding from the John S. and…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Since the initial publication of ‘Collective Impact’ in Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2011), collective impact has gained tremendous momentum as a disciplined, cross-sector approach to solving social and environmental problems on a large scale,” write John Kania,…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher In this contribution to SSIR, Center for American Progress’ Tracey Ross discusses a new report that details how the federal government can facilitate partnerships between communities and anchor institutions to increase economic opportunity.
Cross-sector collaborations “come in all shapes and sizes and have adapted to the specific conditions found in local communities or state and federal governments,” write John J Forrer, James Edwin, and Eric Boyer in The Public Manager. They discuss four basic CSC approaches — including…