Health
Stop Talking About Health Care, Start Talking About People
If we want Americans to be healthy, we must change the conversation.
Articles
Collaboration
Saving Lives Through Partnership
How a structured but adaptable collaboration model is mobilizing organizations to achieve a common goal.
Philanthropy & Funding
Time to Reboot Grantmaking
Social sector organizations need a “healthy diet” of funding to achieve maximum impact, a concept neatly captured by the Grantmaking Pyramid now used by the Ford Foundation.
PODCAST
Measurement & Evaluation
Learning How to Listen to Beneficiaries
Valerie Threlfall of the Fund For Shared Insight, Krystle Onibukon of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, and Brad Dunning of the Center for Employment Opportunities talk about building quality feedback loops.
Civic Engagement
Can We Sustain It?
How to transform the fervor of political resistance into a new era of civic engagement.
Global Issues
Optimizing on the Edges
Combining tools such as design thinking, behavioral science, and evaluation can shape programs to improve patient experiences and change health behaviors.
VIDEO
Nonprofits & NGOs
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Software For Good
What can social sector organizations learn from large companies about using data to maximize impact?
Scaling
What Exactly Do We Mean by Systems?
Everyone is talking about systems. Or at least, that's how it seems in my wonkish corner of the philanthropic world. You can't attend a conference or even have a meeting without hearing about systems, whether it's people trying to disrupt them, map them, learn from them, or catalyze them.
Collaboration
The Next Wave in Fundraising Collaboration
Three considerations for nonprofits looking to work together to raise funds.
Business
Data: The Next Frontier for Impact Investing
A call for investors to share their data to expand the field’s understanding of the breadth and depth of activity.