cross-sector partnerships 101: structuring your cross-sector partnership so it can support your...

CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIPSPresented to:

The Integration Initiative Learning Community #9Catalyst Ranch, Chicago, IL

June 17, 2014

Today’s Agenda

Session 1: Structuring Your Cross-Sector Partnership So It Can Support Your Initiative’s Success

• Ideation Exercise

• Living Cities’ thinking on cross-sector partnerships

• Site Team Exercise: Shaping your Partnership’s Structure

•What questions does the group exercise raise for you?

--Short Break--

Today’s AgendaSession 2: Turning Your Strategy into Reality!

• Perspectives on Building Cross-Sector Partnerships to Achieve Impact

• The Room is Your Panel!

• Site Team Exercise: Identify 3 (or more) strategies/activities to do before the next TII Learning Community to strengthen your cross-sector partnership

• Share your site team’s commitments!

CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS 101: STRUCTURING YOUR CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIP

SO IT CAN SUPPORT YOUR SUCCESSPresented to:

The Integration Initiative Learning Community #9Catalyst Ranch, Chicago, IL

June 17, 2014

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

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

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 (aka feedback culture)

Problem-Solving Cycle (aka feedback loops)

Accounting for differences in…

Power Authority Expertise

Group Exercise: Shaping Your Cross-Sector

Partnership Structure

Popcorn!What’s 1 thing that came up in your site team’s

exercise that you’d like advice or ideas about how you could approach it?

CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS 201: TURNING BIG IDEAS INTO REALITY

Presented to:The Integration Initiative Learning Community #9

Catalyst Ranch, Chicago, ILJune 17, 2014

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Perspectives on Building Cross-Sector Partnerships to Achieve Impact • Monique Baptiste, Director, Strong Healthy

Communities Initiative (Newark, NJ)• Maria Hibbs, Director, Partnership for New

Communities (sunsetted) & consultant (Chicago)• Eric Muschler, Program Officer, McKnight Foundation &

Participant in Corridors of Opportunity (Minneapolis-St. Paul region)

• Carmen Rojas, Associate Director of Collective Impact, Living Cities (Moderator)

The Room is Your Panel!What is one thing that you site is going to commit

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

Group ExerciseWhat are 3+ strategies or activities that your

site team commits to doing before the next TII Learning Community to strengthen

your cross-sector 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?

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 intentional about structure, representatives (and their differences), vision, accountability, trust, & problem-solving.

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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