HOW DO YOU BUILD A STRONGCROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIP TO

IMPLEMENT THE PRINCIPLES OF COLLECTIVE IMPACT AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS?

Presented to:The Integration Initiative Learning Community #8

Oakland, CAMarch 11, 2014

Why are we talking about cross-sector partnerships?

2

The innovation in collective impact, is not the principles…

Source: Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work, Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 2012.

Interest-based frame of cross-sector partnerships

Group Exercise #1

• Individually, complete the cross-sector partnership assessment form.

• Come back together as a group, and identify the following:– What is your team’s answer to each question?– Which questions did team members answer differently?– Which answers surprised you?

Round Robin!• Which questions did team members answer

differently?• Which answers surprised you?

What do your answers mean?Let’s go over them together!

What is Living Cities learning about building stronger cross-sector

partnerships to implement the principles of collective impact?

Result

Charge

Authority

Authorized Empowered

Representatives

Level of Intervention

Structure

Informal Formal

Trust Building & Maintenance Cycle

Problem-Solving Cycle

Look out for these patterns and misalignments!

17

18

The Bermuda Triangle

Result

ChargeLevel of

Intervention

Representatives & Structure

20

The Form-Perform Paradox

21

Weak Analyzing & Reflecting

Group Exercise #2• Compare your cross-sector partnership’s traits and

behaviors to the traits we just went through. • Where were things aligned and misaligned with

the model? • What are your interpretations of why that is? (Try

and identify at least 3 interpretations of why that could be).

• What are 2-3 things you can commit to trying to do in order to strengthen your partnership?

Final Round Robin!What is one thing that you site is going to commit

to trying to better strengthen your cross-sector partnership’s structure/behaviors?

24

Alison Gold

Assistant Director of Knowledge & Impact

Living Cities

Phone: 646-442-2238

Email: agold@livingcities.org

Twitter: @AKGold11, @Living_Cities #xsector

Web: www.LivingCities.org