Interest in collaboration between government and private, grantmaking foundations has grown considerably in recent years both in the USA and abroad. In the USA, one outcome of the increased interest has been the emergence of liaison offices in federal agencies tasked with facilitating partnerships between government and grantmaking foundations and others, such as corporate philanthropic programs. As the government/foundation relationship is still under-conceptualized, we propose a framework that extends general government/nonprofit relationship typologies to grantmaking foundations and present empirical evidence on the foundation roles that government liaison officers prioritize in developing partnerships with their foundation counterparts. Empirically, the article is based on semi-structured interviews with these officers in U.S. federal cabinet departments and independent agencies. Having foundation funding substitute for government outlays factors heavily for government liaison staff. At the same time, the role of foundations in seeding government innovation plays a relatively modest role, despite the prominence of the foundation innovation role in the literature. Rather than having government scale foundation-identified innovations, government liaison officers emphasize foundations funding support services that provide access to or enhance government programs and foundations providing expertise to help co-design better government programs.

近年来，无论是在美国还是在国外，对政府与私人赠款基金会之间合作的兴趣都大大增加了。在美国，人们越来越感兴趣的结果之一是联邦机构中出现了联络处，其任务是促进政府与赠款基金会之间以及诸如企业慈善计划之类的其他机构之间的伙伴关系。由于政府/基金会之间的关系仍未得到足够的概念化，我们提出了一个框架，该框架将一般的政府/非营利组织关系类型扩展到赠款基金会，并提供有关政府联络官在与基金会对口方建立合作伙伴关系中优先考虑的基金会角色的经验证据。根据经验，本文基于对这些美国官员的半结构化访谈 联邦内阁部门和独立机构。用基金会资金代替政府支出会大大增加政府联络人员的费用。同时，尽管在文献中突出了基金会创新的作用，但基金会在推动政府创新方面的作用相对较小。政府联络官没有让政府进行规模可识别的基金会创新，而是强调基金会的资金支持服务，这些服务可以访问或增强政府计划，而基金会则提供专业知识来帮助共同设计更好的政府计划。尽管在文献中突出了基础创新的作用，但基础在推动政府创新的作用中却起着相对适度的作用。政府联络官没有让政府进行规模可识别的基金会创新，而是强调基金会的资金支持服务，这些服务可以访问或增强政府计划，而基金会则提供专业知识来帮助共同设计更好的政府计划。尽管在文献中基金会创新的作用突出，但基金会在推动政府创新中的作用相对较小。政府联络官没有让政府进行规模可识别的基金会创新，而是强调基金会的资金支持服务，这些服务可以访问或增强政府计划，而基金会则提供专业知识来帮助共同设计更好的政府计划。