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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.
Responding To Health Challenges Through Grassroots Mapping
March 7, 2012Innovative community-focused information sharing and mapping techniques have literally exploded in the last years.
Beyond Thinking Evaluatively
March 6, 2012Imagine if every philanthropic organization had a system that helped its leadership, staff, and board answer pressing questions about its strategy; questions s…
The Essential Intangibles of Collective Impact
February 29, 2012In January, my colleagues and I published Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work to help expand the understanding of collective impact and provide gr…
Re-Defining Access: Who’s Responsible?
February 27, 2012Over the last decade, significant investment and effort has been spent developing products to address diseases of the developing world, including malaria, TB, …
Environmental Shared Value Opportunities
February 27, 2012There is a natural link between shared value and environmental issues: use less and create money. Reducing energy, materials, or natural resources used in prod…
How Can We Make Systems Work Faster for Early Learning
February 25, 2012Recently, for our project work on early childhood care and education, my vlogۿ colleagues and I reviewed the work of a few, well-regarded projects that have been…
The Case for Classroom Observations
February 15, 2012A recent longitudinal study by economists at Harvard University and Columbia University shows strong teachers create outcomes extending beyond the classroom an…
Taking Collective Impact to the Next Level
February 14, 2012vlogۿ released its newest article around the concept of collective impact, Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work a few weeks ago, and we have already …
Valuing Values
February 13, 2012I love our values statement. Most people probably pass by the framed copy in each office, or the page on our website, without pausing to think much about it. I…
Reflections on Teaching in India
February 6, 2012As a ‘Teach for India’ fellow, I have witnessed first-hand the immense challenges associated with teaching in a resource-poor environment, having taught two 2n…