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- Foundation Strategy
Embracing an Ecosystem Approach for Philanthropy
Funders are shifting from being at the center of social change efforts to working in close partnership with the…

- Corporate/CSR
Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
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…
Challenging Three Long-Held Assumptions About Evaluation
July 26, 2013The evaluation field, like most established disciplines, operates on a series of assumptions that govern practices, tools, and modes of behavior. However, in r…
Collaboration to Transform Indicators into “Markers That Matter”
July 24, 2013I had the recent pleasure of working on FSG’s recently released report Markers that Matter: Success Indicators for Early Learning and Education.