This document discusses cultivating and sustaining cross-sector collaborative networks. It describes a collaborative network as a network of autonomous entities that collaborate to achieve compatible goals. It states that system-level change can be orchestrated through stakeholders working across the whole system. It also discusses perspective shifts between the individual, organizational, and system levels as well as the roles of boundary-spanning activities and backbone support in collaborative networks.

1. Katherine
Skinner
Sarah
Lippinco0
Sam
Meister
Chris5na
Drummond
Cul5va5ng
and
Sustaining
Cross-­‐
Sector
Collabora5ve
Networks

2. Collabora5ve
Network:
Network
of
autonomous
en55es
that
collaborate
to
achieve
compa5ble
goals.
Affiliated
Communi/es
Consul/ng
Coerced
Migra5on
Research
Alliance
Dodging
the
Memory
Hole

3. system-­‐level
change
can
be
orchestrated
through
the
deliberate
work
of
stakeholders
across
the
whole
system.

4. Perspec5ve
ShiHs
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Credit:
Ilya,
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Individual
Organiza5on

5. Perspec5ve
ShiHs
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Credit:
Ilya,
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System
Individual
Organiza5on

6. Boundary-­‐Spanning
buffering
reflec5ng
connec5ng
mobilizing
weaving
transforming

7. Backbone
Support
Con5nuous
Communica5ons
Mutually
Reinforcing
Ac5vi5es
Common
Agenda
Shared
Measurement

8. Source:
H.
Preskill,
M.
Parkhurst,
J.
Splansky
Justler,
“Learning
and
Evalua5on
in
the
Collec5ve
Impact
Context”
(FSG,
2014)
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