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- Corporate/CSR, Global Health, U.S. Health
The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress
The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…
- Foundation Strategy
Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders
Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.
Aspen Institute Fund Supports Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth
August 12, 2013Exciting collective impact news!
The Data We Have and the Data We Need
August 7, 2013It is tantalizing to envision what the nonprofit sector could achieve with the vast amounts of data and sophisticated analytical tools that already exist in th…
Challenging Three Long-Held Assumptions About Evaluation
July 26, 2013The evaluation field, like most established disciplines, operates on a series of assumptions that govern practices, tools, and modes of behavior. However, in r…
Collaboration to Transform Indicators into “Markers That Matter”
July 24, 2013I had the recent pleasure of working on vlogۿ’s recently released report Markers that Matter: Success Indicators for Early Learning and Education.
Choose Your Indicators Wisely – A Case for Use
July 16, 2013This blog post is thefourth in a series focusing on a study of early learning success markers (indicators), ages 0-8, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation…
Why Is The U.S. Healthcare System Still Broken & How Do We Start Fixing It?
July 11, 2013Spoiler alert: the U.S. healthcare system is horribly broken. Okay, maybe that doesn’t actually come as much of a shock to anyone who has read a newspaper hea…
Love is the Cure
July 9, 2013Earlier this year, we had the privilege of working with the Elton John AIDS Foundationto help refresh its grant making strategy. The new strategy builds on tw…
Defining Parent Leadership and Kindergarten Readiness
July 8, 2013This blog post is the third in aseries focusing on a study of early learning success markers (indicators), ages 0-8, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.…
Coalition Fatigue and Collective Impact
July 1, 2013Bangladesh’s garment industry has been in the news – and the hot seat – lately in light of the Rana Plaza tragedy. Over 1000 lives were lost in the worst indus…