What’s Already Out There (USA)
What’s Already Out There is a “compendium of community-based programs that are effectively addressing urgent national issues.” Written by the Pew Partnership, Most of the examples profiled in this report incorporate collaboration in some way, but it also features a chapter dedicated specifically to collaborative programs, and describes each one in a highly organized and helpful way.

The North End Renewal Corporation (Canada)
This paper from the Centre for Community Enterprise’s newsletter tells the story of the North End Renewal Corporation in Winnipeg, which is working to bring economic and community development to the North end of the city through multisectoral collaboration. The project brings together neighbourhood residents, business owners, government, and community organizations in the area.

Civic Partners - The Search for Solutions This lively and informative booklet is the Pew Partnership’s introduction to their Civic Partners project, which is aimed at increasing community engagement by building partnerships—collaborations between citizens, organizations, and governments. These essays include informative interviews, lessons from real collaborative projects, and advice from people who are working at engaging their communities through collaboration.

Planned Serendipity By examining the experiences of 13 Pew Partners, the authors of Planned Serendipity were able to identify eight factors that they say led to “planned serendipity”—a set of identifiable characteristics that seemed to produce miraculous results when they were combined. By using these collaborative methods, they found that the solutions they found were more effective than the sum of their parts. This book is designed to help other communities duplicate these successes.

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