Uncommon Partners: The Power of Foundation and Corporation Collaboration

Mark Kramer, Marc Pfitzer, Karin Jestin

With their separate spheres of influence, corporations and foundations are each powerful agents for transforming public policy, promoting transparency and convening influential parties. This paper, produced by the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of the Harvard Kennedy School, provides a preliminary exploration of the rationale and potential for foundation-corporation collaborations, together with a framework for constructing them, and case studies that suggest their power.