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- Corporate/CSR, Global Health, U.S. Health
The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress
The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…

- Foundation Strategy
Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders
Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.
The Future of Healthcare in America
September 5, 2013I was recently on a call with a large national US Health funder who asked us the question, “Where is the field of collective impact in healthcare headed?” This…
Corporate Social Innovation at Scale: How to Get the Recipe Right
September 4, 2013Innovation is deeply engrained in corporate DNA, as the engine to outperform competition in increasingly saturated markets. Evidence of business’ tremendous in…
Developmental Evaluation and Complexity for Breakfast
August 30, 2013In a recent blog post on GrantCraft, Kevin Chin, Knowledge and Evaluation Officer at The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, discusses his experience at the 2013…
Overwhelmed by Information Overload?
August 28, 2013Today, as I was enjoying 15 minutes of sun on a sidewalk bench, I was struck by how many people are on their cell phones all the time. We have information over…
The Cancer Divide: From Recognition to Action
August 28, 2013The cancer disease burden in developing countries is growing rapidly. This year over half of the nearly 13 million cancer cases diagnosed worldwide and two-thi…
Overcoming the Seductive Logic of Randomized Control Trials
August 22, 2013Progress in social policy, as in other fields, requires strategic trial and error – i.e. rigorously testing many promising interventions to identify the few th…
Keeping el Sueño de MLK Alive
August 19, 2013Something beautiful about working in philanthropy is that we have the opportunity to connect our work with larger movements that are at the core of our values …
Avoiding Scattershot Evaluation
August 13, 2013Show me an organization with a complex, multi-pronged social impact strategy and I will show you an organization that could use a strategic learning and evalua…
Aspen Institute Fund Supports Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth
August 12, 2013Exciting collective impact news!
The Data We Have and the Data We Need
August 7, 2013It is tantalizing to envision what the nonprofit sector could achieve with the vast amounts of data and sophisticated analytical tools that already exist in th…