The Collective Impact of Suspending Suspensions

By Suzanne Bohan

An excerpt of Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How the Challenge Inequity

Revitalizing Community Connection

By Corey Binns 1

Reimagining the Civic Commons claims it has built the first comprehensive set of metrics that connect the impact of revitalization to things like trust between people, neighbors' perceptions of safety, and a community’s ability to draw together people of different incomes, races, and backgrounds.

When Rapid Equals Urgent

By Michael Seo

The Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights has pioneered a rapid response grantmaking model connected to the global grassroots.

Funding Feedback

By Katie Smith Milway 3

Fund for Shared Insight is pooling the cash and convictions of 13 philanthropies to build the field of end-user feedback. Can its leaders become role models for the positive change they seek to create? Open access to this article is made possible by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (Fund for Shared Insight).

Mastering System Change

By Christian Seelos & Johanna Mair 13

Organizations are increasingly turning to system change to tackle big social problems. But systems are complex, and mastering the process requires observation, patience, and reflection. To begin, here are two
approaches to pursuing system change.

Foundations as Interest Groups

By Marilyn Harris

While old foundations typically support traditional public-school institutions, new foundations are seeking to reshape or bypass them.