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Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is increasing and becoming more strategically important. Based on 15 case studies, this article presents a cross-sector collaboration framework consisting of four components. First, the collaboration continuum provides a conceptual framework for categorizing different types of partnerships and studying their possible evolution through three principal stages: philanthropic, transactional, and integrative. Second, the collaboration value construct facilitates the analysis of the definition, creation, balance, and renewal of the value generated in different types of alliances. Third, a set of alliance drivers is identified that determines the nature and functioning of the partnerships. Fourth, alliance enablers that contribute to the effective management of the relationship are set forth. The article discusses the dynamics of the alliance marketplace. The research builds on and extends existing interorganizational research theories by providing a distinctive conceptual framework and new empirical understanding of cross-sector alliances. Future research needs are identified.

AbstractHow do nonprofits figure into the lives of business leaders? And how do business leaders figure into the lives of nonprofits? The intersections exist but there is relatively little systematic research to document empirically this piece of the nonprofit picture. This article aims to help fill that void by presenting research results regarding the who, when, where, why, how, and so what of the involvement of businesspeople in the nonprofit sector, particularly as board members.

The roots of malnutrition are found in economics, education, agriculture, and health. This multiple etiology requires that approaches to the problem engage many different institutions. These organizations can be viewed as constituting an International Nutrition Institutional Network. The functions of this system are collection and dissemination of information, provision of goods and services, financing, and coordination. Significant problems, however, have been identified in the performance of these functions. These are organizational: poor coordination, vague responsibility delineation, inadequate evaluation, people limitations, and internationalnational relationships. They are also political: policy vacuum, knowledge gaps, and priority conflicts. Unless these are rectified, the Network's effectiveness will remain severely limited.

The path of exploration / James E. Austin and Gustavo Esteva -- Food needs and capacities : four centuries of conflict / Gustavo Esteva -- The conception of SAM / Mario Montanari -- State-owned enterprises : food policy implementers / James E. Austin and Jonathan Fox -- Channeling credit to the countryside / Raul Pessah -- SAM and seeds / David Barkin -- Generating and disseminating technology / Gustavo Viniegra Gonzalez -- The peasant initiative / Rodrigo A. Medellin E. -- Feeding Mexico City / Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara -- SAM and the Mexican private sector / Carlos Guillermo Sequeira -- SAM's cost and impact on production / Armando Andrade and Nicole Blanc -- SAM's influence on food consumption and nutrition / Jacobo Schatan W. -- SAM, energy, and structural change in the agricultural sector / C. Peter Timmer.