Working across boundaries : making collaboration work in government and nonprofit organizations
(Book - Regular Print)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index.

Publisher description: A practical guide for nonprofit and government professionals who want to learn the techniques and strategies of successful collaboration. This book shows how to make collaboration work in the real world. It offers practitioners a framework for developing collaborative relationships and shows them how to adopt strategies that have proven to be successful with a wide range of organizations. Filled with in-depth case studies-- including a particularly challenging case in which police officers and social workers overcome the inherent differences in their cultures to help abused children-- the book clearly shows how organizations have dealt with the hard issues of collaboration.