This paper describes the use of concepts from Social Networks and Social Exchange theories to implement an evidence-based practice in afterschool programs

Includes a thorough literature review, initial investigation and taxonomy to describe new emergent networks: Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks, Policy Networks, Advocacy Networks, Watchdog Networks, Platforms, Standards Networks,  Governance Networks, Networked Institutions and Diasporas.

A framing article that introduces some of the current thinking around the uses and benefits of networks.

This essay raises the following broad questions: (1) What role can learning networks play in addressing wicked problems? (2) How can leaders of organizations in the food and agricultural sector facilitate and accelerate the development of such networks? (3) What

Provides insight into how movement networks seize the possibilities—and elude the pitfalls—of cross-issue collaboration.

Discussion of how national nonprofits with extensive “bricks and mortar” presence are leveraging their networks to battle major chronic disease. 

Advocates and funders have clear beliefs and assumptions about how policy change will happen. Those underlying theories can be enhanced by considering what different disciplines have learned about what conditions are necessary for success, which tactics to undertake in different

This paper is an early draft intended to share some of the improvement work ongoing at the Carnegie Foundation and the ideas that motivate it.

Provides four key operating “counterintuitive” principles that build a culture for collaboration success, based on research on successful networks. 

Describes the essential roles networks play in building strong social movements. It is based on experience with clients and in-depth research.