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Federal agencies, foundations, and nonprofit organizations that are funding solutions to long-standing social problems need to continually assess their efforts and use the findings to adapt and improve their funding strategies. This article discusses the value and guiding principles for embedding reflective practice into the grantmaking process. Although many funders and social change organizations espouse learning and adaptation as part of their culture, it is our observation that actual efforts…

The St. David's Foundation (SDF) is one of the largest grantmaking foundations in Texas. SDF invests proceeds from St. David's HealthCare to more than 60 nonprofit partners that operate healthy community programs in the Central Texas area. SDF has contracted with Community Science to develop a monitoring, learning, and evaluation (MLE) system to assist them to better manage and improve the effectiveness of SDF's grantmaking. In understanding the importance of…

Featured from the Intersector Project: A Guest Blog Post by Margaret (Meg) Hargreaves, Ph.D. Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs), commonly defined as 10 types of child abuse, neglect, and family exposure to toxic stress, comprise a complex, population-wide health problem with significant detrimental outcomes. Read the article here

Community Science evaluated MassDevelopment's Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) after it was first launched in 10 Gateway Cities in 2015. TDI aims to catalyze transformative redevelopment within focused districts in Gateway Cities, helping to accelerate economic growth and to benefit the people and small businesses connected with each district. The evaluation team assessed TDI's impact, documented TDI's influence within MassDevelopment (the sponsor organization), and recommended possible program adjustments. The team also…

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As part of its mission to conduct objective, rigorous research of community change processes, in 2016 a Community Science team completed and published a new valid and reliable index of collective community capacity. This article describes the new ACEs and Resilience Collective Community Capacity (ARC3) Survey in detail. ACEs. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are a complex population health problem with significant detrimental outcomes. ACEs are commonly defined as 10 types…