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What Barriers? Insights from Solving Problems through Cross-Sector Partnership

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What Barriers? Insights from Solving Problems through Cross-Sector Partnership

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  • 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 examples of cross-sector partnerships working on different issues, in distinctive ways, in diverse geographies:

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