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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.
Rethinking Evaluation: From Reporting to Learning
September 25, 2025Evaluations, whether formative or summative, should be learning-oriented—helping funders and implementers adapt, avoid wasted effort, and strengthen real impac…
How Fostering a Learning Culture Can Improve Your Strategy
June 22, 2023ֱ's Nikhil Bumb, Allison Kaika, Gabriella Cova, and Mikayla Redding joined Capital + SAFI in La Paz, Bolivia for several in-person strategy workshopsAs soci…
How Can Funders Support Grantee Cohorts as Part of a Systems Change Strategy?
April 21, 2023How funders can think more strategically about how they use grantee learning cohorts as a tool for systems change.
Partnering for Change, Committing to Learning
December 14, 2021Strategic learning and evaluation are important tools for cross-sector collaboration—to monitor and understand progress, to support accountability, and to help…
- Collective ImpactCorporate/CSREconomic DevelopmentEducation & YouthFoundation StrategyGlobal DevelopmentGlobal HealthStrategic Learning & EvaluationSystems ThinkingU.S. Health
End of Year Reflections 2020
December 17, 2020“During these unprecedented times…” That’s a phrase I hope to never read again, and not simply because it’s such a cliché. The very notion of an unprecedented …
Rethinking Outcomes in a Crisis Context
May 26, 2020In this critical time, and with a sense of urgency, many philanthropic organizations are shifting the ways in which they are supporting grantees. In addition …
Learning in a Time of Crisis
April 7, 2020Many philanthropic organizations are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by developing rapid-response funding mechanisms, resources, and revised grant policie…
Top Reads from 2019
December 16, 2019As ֱ enters its 20thyear of supporting social impact funders and leaders across sectors, we are appreciative of our clients and partners around the world. Y…
How Do You Evaluate Systems Change? A Place to Start.
November 22, 2019Systems change has received much attention in recent years as grantmakers have increasingly set out to change underlying conditions that hold systemic challeng…