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Reinventing Health Care Services
A doctor describes his groundbreaking, transdisciplinary effort to design more cost-effective care models for conditions that drive a large proportion of US health spending.
What If Funders Really Acted Like Purchasers?
The funder-as-purchaser model offers new frameworks to spur new thinking and advancements in the nonprofit sector.
Nonprofits
The Role of the Voluntary Sector in the Era of Health Reform
Dr. David Shern, CEO of Mental Health America, and Father Larry Snyder, President of Catholic Charities USA, discuss the potential of nonprofits as catalysts for innovation in health care reform.
Taking Exception to Exceptionalism
We need to shift the narrative to include the link between exceptional solutions and the systems change and scale needed to deliver a just baseline.
Funders Aren’t Investors, They’re Purchasers
Is it accurate or even appropriate for funders to think of themselves as—and act like—investors?
Becoming the Sustainability We Seek
So focused on short-term funding for survival, the nonprofit sector is losing its ability to implement innovative solutions to the world’s problems.
The Limited Returns on Fundraising Support for Nonprofits
How can a funder move beyond wishful thinking and achieve a high yield through fundraising support?
Global Issues
Global Health Speaker Series
Stanford Professor Robert Proctor presents scholarly research and advocates for pressure against the forces of the tobacco industry.
Macroeconomic Perspective on the Budget Deficit
Joe Minarik, senior vice president of the Committee for Economic Development, talks about the macroeconomic perspective on the U.S. budget deficit and its impact on the US economy.
