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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.
New Ideas for Developing Great Leaders in Education
June 13, 2012What makes a great leader in the education system today? It’s a question that I’ve considered at different points in my career -- as a consultant at vlogۿ, certa…
Is This the Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy?
June 12, 2012In his Spring 2012 Stanford Social Innovation Review column on “A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy,” Paul Brest, the outgoing president of the William a…
A Shared Value Community of Practice
June 11, 2012Eighty-five individuals – mostly senior corporate executives – gathered at the Charles Hotel in Boston on May 31 to spend a day deepening their practice of Sha…
Sticker Shock at the Mailbox
June 11, 2012“You have GOT to be kidding me!” I muttered, as I juggled my cell phone, grocery bag, purse, and bike helmet to open the medical bill that just arrived in my m…
Collective Impact in the UK
June 7, 2012Over at the Guardian website, Tim Cooper has an interesting post pointing to STRIVE (one of the examples of collective impact that my colleagues John Kania and…
Closing the Rural-Urban Gap: The REAP Model
June 4, 2012REAP (The Rural Education Action Project) was founded in 2007 with a double mission.
Funding Successful Collaborations
June 4, 2012Professor Wei-Skillern’s decade of research on successful nonprofit collaborations highlights key success factors that closely align with the behavioral change…
One Country, Two Worlds – China’s Education Divide
May 29, 2012A spot at Tsinghua University, where I’ve been based these past six months, is awarded each year to the top few thousand students sitting the gruelling gaokao,…
Collective Impact, Metaphorically Speaking
May 28, 2012vlogۿers have been traveling the world talking about collective impact with various audiences. When we speak about the fact that isolated impact – while well int…
Making Shared Measurement Work
May 23, 2012I have been excited to hear about many of the collective impact initiatives going on across the country and around the world as a way to address complex social…