Developing a refreshed theory of change and strategic plan for Footsteps involved exploring and reconciling the viewpoints and interests of community members, staff, and board to build consensus around priorities for growth while maintaining a high quality of services for their diverse membership.

Our Data Ethics Guidebook and Toolkit can serve as go-to resources for foundation staff, evaluators, and nonprofit partners, delivering practical guidance and customizable tools for navigating ethical issues in research and evaluation.

To root out racial injustice, we studied the litany of structural barriers that impede the rise of racially inclusive and representative leaders in the outdoors.

The benefits—and challenges—of working across program teams surfaced tensions between the urgent need to work across sectors and long-held grantmaking practices structured by content area.

Our learning cycles with the Center’s climate change, nuclear weapons, and mass violence and atrocity teams tested their assumptions and informed ongoing adjustments to their policy advocacy strategies.

In-person outcome mapping sessions and deep dives with Health Care Leadership Program participants revealed how investment in individual health care leaders rippled out to changes in organizational culture and even state policy.