Since publishing the original in 2011, the majority of FSG’s work supporting cross-sector collaboration has been focused on communities or regions in the U.S.—like in improving early childhood education in Houston, Texas, or to transform their juvenile justice system—and we have explored how to for a collective impact initiative.
As we have of what it takes to effectively implement cross-sector work, we have been asked to advise on a growing number of collaborations across national borders. Given the increasing interest in implementing collective impact across geographies and cultures, we wanted to share what we have learned from launching and advising funder-driven, transnational collaborative efforts.
In a new article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, “,” we discuss 2 important considerations for funders interested in transnational collaborations and share lessons from organizations doing this work, including Family Care First, the Tauber Family Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, Humanity United, and the Freedom Fund.
For more examples of global cross-sector collaboration, check out our interviews with the , a coalition of multi-sector stakeholders collaborating to address the global unmet need for glasses, and , a voluntary industry-wide strategy that aligns the world’s leading cocoa and chocolate companies, origin Governments, and key stakeholders on regional priority issues in cocoa sustainability.
