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…
“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 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.
✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher “While most research on business–non-profit partnerships has focused on macro and meso perspectives, this article pays attention to the micro level. Drawing on various theoretical perspectives from both marketing and management, this study conceptually relates the outcomes of active employee…
✴︎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….
“This is a practical guide to help the private and social sectors [collaborate with other sectors to address social challenges.] It should help both sectors to be more aware of their different strengths and weaknesses and of how to go about approaching, engaging, and relying…
“Addressing community problems increasingly requires cooperation among the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors.” In this article from McKinsey Quarterly, “three executives explain how a civic alliance in America’s Minneapolis-Saint Paul region [called the Itasca Project] may point toward an operating model.”
“Public-private partnerships (P3s) for infrastructure projects have had a fitful history in the U.S. Despite their success in Canada, Australia, the U.K., and other countries, P3s have encountered numerous obstacles in the U.S., most notably public and political opposition to the notion of private involvement…