Intersector Briefing: Smart cities
This month’s Intersector Briefing examines the role of business, government, and non-profit collaboration in building smart cities, which more and more localities are working to become
May 18, 2017
Data Tag
Intersector Briefing: Data Collaboratives
The articles in this month’s Intersector Briefing discuss data collaboratives — from what they can look like to why they’re important to what challenges they present.
March 02, 2017
Moving the needle on a county-wide problem: insights from Orange County’s homelessness cost study
The OC homelessness cost study holds actionable lessons for practitioners of cross-sector collaboration in a variety of issues areas.
February 14, 2017
Diving Into The Intersector Toolkit: Commit to Information Sharing
Cross-sector collaborations often involve managing many streams of data and information from the multiple actors involved, which can come with a variety of challenges.
February 07, 2017
What does it take to use data to change behavior in collective impact?
Living Cities is creating a blog series that will highlight lessons learned from their collective impact portfolio and share additional free tools and resources.
May 11, 2016
Facing a data gap in decision making, local governments look to cross-sector partners
Cities "need tools and expertise to close the gap between their intention to use data in decision making and their actual capacity to do so.”
March 14, 2016
Lessons in building a common fact base from Project Homeless Connect in San Francisco
Collaboration partners may have biases that influence their determination of what facts are relevant to the issue at hand, of what “the problem” really is.
October 28, 2015
Data as a decision-making tool for change
Spark Policy Institute's new toolkit provides advice for social innovators on where to turn for data and how to evaluate and present their results.
October 26, 2015
Innovators from tech industry work to make the public sector more data-driven
The public sector has struggled to keep up with the demand for more citizen-facing technology and access to data, resulting in an influx of tech executives from Silicon Valley to D.C.
July 06, 2015