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Cross-sector partnerships, a distinct type of collaborative governance, have in recent years attracted increasing attention from governments, civil society organizations, foundations, philanthropists, and business organizations. Such partnerships are perceived as an essential and desirable strategy for coping with complex public challenges and for promoting innovative social programs. This chapter examines, from the perspective of civil society, the roles played by civil society organizations in cross-sector partnerships and the relationships that are formed between these organizations and government within the framework of cross-sector partnerships. It will present and discuss research findings regarding the activities of civil society organizations in cross-sector partnerships conducted in Israel in recent years.
Author’s Note: Some of the materials presented in this chapter are based on Almog-Bar, M. & Schmid, H. (2018). Cross-sector partnerships in human services: Insights and organizational dilemmas. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(4s), 119–138 and some of the findings are derived from research on cross-sector partnerships in Israel, funded by the Government-Civil Society Initiative, a partnership between seven government ministries and the JDC-Israel Institute for Leadership and Governance.
The author wishes to thank her students, Roni Lior, Yael Hadas, Hadas Bar Siman Tov, Eitan Dunitz, Gilad Hadas, Uri Carmi, Alon Kuba, and Ortal Wasser, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who assisted in the collection of data.
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Civil society is defined as follows: “civil society is the sphere of institutions, organizations and individuals, located between the family, the state and the market in which people associate voluntarily to advance common interests” (Anheier 2004, p. 22).
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Almog-Bar, M. (2021). Civil Society Organizations in Collaborative Governance: Cross-sector Partnerships as a Test Case. In: Sher-Hadar, N., Lahat, L., Galnoor, I. (eds) Collaborative Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45807-2_10
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