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 “Network-focused research in public administration has expanded rapidly over the past two decades. This rapid growth has created some confusion about terminology and approaches to research in the field. We organize the network literature in public administration using…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Collaborative networks in the public and non-profit sector face challenges that are typical for their institutional context. The typical characteristics that might impede the functioning of networks and, in particular, the development of trust and network effectiveness, are…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “The idea of the public-private partnership (PPP) has become one of the dominant forces in public sector reform over the recent period. Its advocates have no doubt that it leads to a better future, particularly in the area…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “Although stakeholder management is seen as one of the main success factors of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs), to date, limited research has investigated actual stakeholder management in PPPs. After positioning PPP in the current stakeholder management theory, a comparative…
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “While public entities are still increasingly interested in Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs), we recently observe increasing reluctance from private partners to engage in PPP-bidding. Up-front costs that PPP bidders make, are considered too high compared to the bidding chances,…
✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Public–private partnerships with large corporations offer potential benefits to the health sector but many concerns have been raised, highlighting the need for appropriate safeguards. In this paper we propose five tests that public policy makers may wish to apply…
✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Business improvement districts (BIDs) are distinctive, formalized partnerships between the public and private sectors operating as subgovernmental units at the local level. There were more than 650 BIDs in the United States in 2008 and an estimated 1,500 worldwide….
✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “Purpose: This paper reviews the normative literature of performance measurement within the context of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of current ex post evaluations of PPPs and identify a feasible direction…
✴︎Available only with purchase from publisher “This article looks at factors which have affected the shares of public and private money that have been going into public-private transportation partnership investments in the US. It looks at a number of recent partnerships and relates the importance…
“Nassau County Department of Health (NCDOH) formed a multi-sector partnership with hospitals, physicians, and community organizations to address the influenza pandemic. This article highlights the NCDOH’s efforts to “partner with the community utilizing a three-phase model to communicate, plan, and implement a strategy to ease…