Health
Keep Our New Health Systems
Community health workers, neighborhood clinics, and real-time data bolstered America’s COVID-19 response. They could now form the cornerstone for more equitable health care.
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Technology
Decolonize Data
The social sector too often extracts and siloes data from the communities it supposedly serves.
Collaboration
The Importance of Place
Through place-based work, we have learned new ways to partner, collect data, and invest to bring systemic change and eliminate structural inequalities in our communities.
Health
Preventing the Next Pandemic
Governments, academia, civil society, philanthropists, and the private sector must jointly take five priority actions to stop the global spread of disease.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Promise of Outcomes Funds
Efforts at improving global education too often fail to have the desired impact. Outcomes funds can help shift funders and policy makers toward the most effective approaches.
Philanthropy & Funding
Endow Black-Led Nonprofits
Endowments are often lacking for social change nonprofits—even more so for Black-led organizations. By closing this gap, we could radically transform how we confront society’s most pressing issues.
Open-access to this article made possible by The Bridgespan Group.
Collaboration
Two Experiments With Outcomes Frameworks
The new public management model of governance has failed. But an emerging collaborative and democratic approach shows promise.
Measurement & Evaluation
Putting Evidence to Use
Research does no good if its insights are irrelevant or not applied. Ensuring that evidence influences policy requires developing the right ecosystem and levers for accountability.
Philanthropy & Funding
Transformative Philanthropy for Racial Justice
We created the Democracy Frontlines Fund to enable experienced anti-racist organizers to do their crucial work. They taught us how to do philanthropy better.
Business
How to Make Stakeholder Capitalism Work
Stakeholders must have more power over the companies that affect them. Giving them a share in ownership and governance is the best way to ensure this.