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Shrewd Awakening

By Avichai Scher

After many years of excluding the disability community, philanthropy is starting to make changes. The Ford Foundation’s awakening on disability inclusion offers a model for the rest of the sector.

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Participatory Grantmaking Is Your Future

By Nikki Brown-Booker

Funders must abandon top-down, one-sided funding approaches in favor of partnerships with the disability community.

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Equity Is Fundamental to Implementation Science

By Audrey Loper, Beadsie Woo & Allison Metz

Implementation science has not advanced equitable outcomes routinely, explicitly, or intentionally. Here’s how it can.

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Trust the People

By Blake Strode & Amy Morris

Centering equity in funding relationships requires trust. It also takes time, resources, and a willingness to shift power to the people closest to the problem.

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Youth Leadership in Action

By Steven D. Cohen, Leonard Burton & Elliott Hinkle

Youth and young adults helped develop and implement a new initiative, Youth Thrive, that addresses the challenges they face in foster care.

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Community Takes the Wheel

By Winsome Stone, Matthew Billings & Rebecca Boxx

A new framework, Evidence2Success, gave the Children and Youth Cabinet a road map to put equity at the center of its work with young people.

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Equity in Implementation Science Is Long Overdue

By Ana A. Baumann & Pamela Denise Long

Implementation researchers and practitioners must examine how the field can be truly equitable. A systemic approach offers a path forward.

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Listening to Black Parents

By William Jackson & Kristine Andrews 4

Black children experience racial discrimination in academic environments that actively deplete their self-worth. By accessing the cultural knowledge of Black parents, Village of Wisdom co-designed a liberatory approach to education.

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Faith-Based Organizations as Leaders of Implementation

By Rubén Parra-Cardona, Ofelia Zapata, Maria Emerson, Deliana Garcia & Rev. Jairo Sandoval-Pliego

Implementation science must recognize faith-based organizations as key leaders of change in underserved immigrant communities.

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Community-Defined Evidence as a Framework for Equitable Implementation

By Linda M. Callejas, Gilberto Perez Jr. & Francisco J. Limon

The Bienvenido Program engages Latinx communities to better understand their mental health concerns and to develop a program that meets their needs.