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Cross-Sector Partnerships 101: Structuring Your Cross-Sector Partnership
So It Can Support Your SuccessAlison Gold
Assistant Director of Knowledge & Impact, Living Cities For the Presidio Institute Cross-Sector Leadership Fellows
@AKGold11@Living_Cities#xsector
Today’s Agenda1. Ideation Exercise
2. Living Cities’ thinking on cross-sector partnerships
3. Individual Exercise: Shaping your Partnership’s Structure
4. Pair Exercise: What questions does the group exercise raise for you?
5. The Room is Your Panel!
6. Commitments
7. Wrap Up!
1. What has worked well in cross-sector partnerships you have participated in in the past?
2. What hasn’t worked in cross-sector partnerships you participated in in the past?
Ideation Exercise
Popcorn!What ideas stood out for you on
the idea board?
Why are we talking about cross-sector partnerships?
The Interest-based Frame
Partners Community
Who changes views,
behaviors, policies, or
funding flows, etc.
Collective Impact
Pay for Success
Shared Value
Public-Private Partnership
Sponsorship
All partners
No partners
Who benefits
What model of cross-sector partnership should you be using? (Beta Version)
Co-blab-oration vs. Collaboration
Source: Chris Thompson’s Regional Physics Blog http://regionalphysics.blogspot.com/2013/11/coblaboration-vs-collaboration-for.html
Co-blab-oration Collaboration
Focused on assigning blame or taking credit Focused on outcomes
Stakeholders participate to protect
Stakeholders participate to generate value
Opinions rule Data is king
Talk exceeds action Actions emerge from engagement
Informal process Intentional, rigorous process
Result
Structure
Informal Formal
Representatives
Representatives & Structure
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The Bermuda Triangle
Result
ChargeLevel of
Intervention
Cross-Sector Partnership Bermuda Triangle Matrix of Alignment and Misalignment
Result Charge Level of Intervention Alignment?General Thinking Program/Project Delivery AlignedGeneral Thinking Systems Change MisalignedGeneral Doing Program/Project Delivery AlignedGeneral Doing Systems Change MisalignedGeneral Thinking & Doing Program/Project Delivery AlignedGeneral Thinking & Doing Systems Change MisalignedSpecific Thinking Program/Project Delivery MisalignedSpecific Thinking Systems Change MisalignedSpecific Doing Program/Project Delivery AlignedSpecific Doing Systems Change MisalignedSpecific Thinking & Doing Program/Project Delivery AlignedSpecific Thinking & Doing Systems Change Aligned
Shaded boxes indicate crux of misalignment
Trust Building & Maintenance Cycle
Problem-Solving Cycle
Accounting for differences in…
Power Authority Expertise
Individual Exercise: Shaping Your Cross-Sector
Partnership Structure
Partner Exercise
Popcorn!What’s 1 thing that came up in your exercise that you’d like advice or ideas about how you could approach it?
The Room is Your Panel!
Individual ExerciseWhat are 3+ strategies or activities that you
commit to doing before the next Fellows convening to strengthen your cross-sector partnership?
Final Round Robin!What is one thing that you commit to doing to
strengthen your cross-sector partnership’s structure/behaviors before the next Fellows
convening?
3 Closing Thoughts1. Collaboration, not co-blab-oration
2. There’s no recipe, you’re going to have to develop one that works for your context and goals.
3. Your partnership is more likely to succeed if you’re clear about results, and intentional about structure, representatives (and their differences), vision, accountability, trust, & problem-solving.
Alison Gold
Assistant Director of Knowledge & Impact
Living Cities
Phone: 646-442-2238
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @AKGold11, @Living_Cities #xsector
Web: www.LivingCities.org