Predicting Community Adoption of Collective Impact in the United States: A National Scan

Anne Marie Boyer, Katherine R. Cooper, Shaun M. Dougherty, Rong Wang, Michelle Shumate

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Abstract

Collaborative governance research examines the role of individuals, organizations, and partnerships within a community to understand why particular interorganizational networks emerge. We take a different tact, arguing that communities adopt collaborative governance models based upon exposure to the models and the individual and organizational resources in a community. We conducted a web-based national-level scan of communities in the United States (N = 1,162) for the presence of one model of collaborative governance, education-focused collective impact. We found that spatial proximity, poverty rate, and individual resources each predicted the existence of collective impact in a U.S. county. Implications for collaborative governance research are drawn from the results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)736-758
Number of pages23
JournalNonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Volume51
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2022

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Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Army Research Office (grant number W911NF-16-1-0464).

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Army Research OfficeW911NF-16-1-0464

    Keywords

    • collaborative governance
    • collective impact
    • cross-sector collaboration
    • education
    • social movements

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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