Cross-Sector Collaboration

Recent decades have seen a resurgence of a century-old idea: schools, nonprofits, government agencies, and others can work together to forge opportunities for children in underserved areas. Research sheds light on the challenges and opportunities of these cross-sector collaborations.

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Cross-Sector Collaboration

Advancing Opportunities for Adolescents Initiative: Meet the Partnerships Our Advancing Opportunities for Adolescent initiative explores how cross-sector partnerships can leverage and support the contributions o...
October 8, 2025 resource
Cross-Sector Collaboration

Can Cross-Sector Partnerships Make a Difference for Adolescents? Yearlong effort explores how to better serve youth most in need through system-level partnerships
March 7, 2024 Article
Cross-Sector Collaboration

Cross-Sector Collaboration May Be ‘Invaluable’ in the Current Crisis Carolyn Riehl of Teachers College on role “collective impact” can play during pandemic
June 18, 2020 Article
Cross-Sector Collaboration

Building Impact A study of initiatives in eight cities concludes that they are a calming force and “show promise.”
December 1, 2019 report
Cross-Sector Collaboration

Cross-sector Collaborations for Education Show Promise, Face Challenges Upcoming report examines collaborations and their early impact on local school systems and educational outcomes.
June 18, 2019 Article
Cross-Sector Collaboration

Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs In successfully scaling up social programs through partnerships, nonprofits faced three key choices: their partner, their approach to spr...
September 1, 2017 report
Cross-Sector Collaboration

Collective Impact and the New Generation of Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education This report describes developments in the current generation of cross-sector collaborations for education and presents findings from a sc...
March 1, 2016 report
Cross-Sector Collaboration

Putting Collective Impact Into Context This working paper reviews the research on local, cross-sector collaborations to improve public education.
October 1, 2015 report

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