Collaboration
The Importance of Place
Through place-based work, we have learned new ways to partner, collect data, and invest to bring systemic change and eliminate structural inequalities in our communities.
Tag: Cross-sector Collaboration
Excerpt
Collaboration
At the Intersection
Two excerpts from the edited collection, The Intersector, on building public trust through cross-sector collaboration between the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.
Health
Preventing the Next Pandemic
Governments, academia, civil society, philanthropists, and the private sector must jointly take five priority actions to stop the global spread of disease.
Government
Making the Government Adoption of Social Innovations Work
How small and medium NGOs and social enterprises can help the public sector successfully adopt and scale their innovations.
Economic Development
The Problem of Social Benefit
Economists have obsessed over the question of negative externalities, but market arrangements can also generate positive externalities. We should consider how to harness them for public good. | Open access to this article made possible by Harvard Business School Division of Research and Faculty Development
Nonprofits & NGOs
Building Relationships, Strengthening Neighborhoods
Systems change efforts that focus on boosting social capital and collective efficacy through building relationships within communities show promise. But do we have the patience to wait for them to work?
Collaboration
Collaborating to Solve Homelessness
Partnerships between nonprofit service providers and government agencies to address homelessness are more effective when the former play a leading role.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofits in the Era of Stakeholder Capitalism
The growth of double bottom line and impact investing can give nonprofits new ways to raise funds and opportunities to grow their influence.
Business
Reorient the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability
Corporate sustainability programs have grown dramatically, but biases have crippled their effectiveness. We identify three critical steps for reform.
Collaboration
How to Manage Large-Scale Public Crises
To address the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic disruptions, India’s government, businesses, and nonprofits had to work together. Their experience provides lessons for the world on crisis management.