Summary:

The purpose of this case is to demonstrate an example of collaboration and encourage students to identify factors that may contribute to successful collaboration. This is looked at both from a start-up perspective and a sustained-program perspective. Public managers will often find themselves in situations where a network and/or collaboration are called for. In these cases traditional thinking in terms of top-down leadership or program implementation by a single agency are not appropriate. This case is designed to present a real world example where multiple agencies, in the public sector, not-for-profit sector, and private sector all worked in a cross-sector collaborative fashion and solved a problem that none of them would likely have been able to solve as a single agency.