Featured Work
A sample of our work with leading nonprofits, funders, and public agencies throughout the country.
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2025
Learning in Times of Turmoil
Cultivating an Ecosystem of Care for Young Children and Families
geo 2025: quickstart Guide to participatory storytelling
Packard foundation: A vision for ffn care
Priority communities: Fostering INclusive and Resilient Economies
PROMISING MINDS EVALUATION: STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS FOR INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH
More Featured Work
2024
Fostering Participatory Learning Approaches in Philanthropy: A Guide for the Curious
Nourishing the Healthy Food Access System: The Story of the Healthy Food Community of Practice
The Power of Us: Leaning into the Messiness of Authentic Engagement
Voices of change: Evaluation of FVCA’s Project Leadership
Evolving for Equity: Integrating Developmental and Equity-Focused Evaluation
Striving for Equitable Completion: Strengthening Dual Enrollment in California
Shifting mindsets and narratives about the value & Deservingness of caregivers
Mapping Social Change Networks: A Guide to Why, What, How, and Who
Racial Equity in action at California Community Colleges
Learning from California Guided Pathways Project 2.0
A Window into the Journey of Fostering Community-Centered Health
AEA: Incorporating youth voice into participatory learning
AEA: Engaging diverse voices in foundation strategy, design, and evaluation
2023
art for justice in action
Lessons and Findings from SNI’s Community of Practice of California Health Systems
Advancing community-centered health experiences
reflections on the redi kc community of practice
2022
Tk Foundation Youth Development Learning Community
Informing Communities about COVID-19 Vaccination: Lessons from a Broad Vaccine Messaging Campaign in Missouri
DISH and La cocina: An Equitable, Inclusive, and Innovative Food Partnership
Shifting Philanthropic Practice in Times of Crisis: Funder Insights from COVID-19 Rapid Response Grantmaking
Ford Foundation’s strategy to end mass incarceration
Lessons from STarting smart and strong: Bringing early learning systems change to scale
Paving the Way for Inclusive Economic Recovery by Prioritizing Racial Equity
Emerging Lessons from Clinical-Community Partnerships in North Carolina
PropelNext Northern California 2021 Cohort
Embedding Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion into Practice
A Field Guide to Evaluation and Learning At Foundations
Career ladders: learning priorities for advancing equitable dual enrollment in california
Encore Physicians Program
Voices from the field: Building resilience capacities in early learning
AEA: Transforming learning by centering equity, community, y cultura
AEA: Participatory evaluation as a vehicle for trauma-informed evaluation
AEA: A fun space to explore participatory evaluation
2021
San Joaquin valley health fund
When it counts: An evaluation of the 2020 We Count la campaign
Equity and evaluation for packard’s starting smart and strong
How Funders Seek and Use Knowledge to influence philanthropic practice
Strategy Resilience: Getting Wise About Philanthropic Strategy in a Post-Pandemic World
A mission to improve health: The Story of Missouri’s Expanding Coverage Initiative
Broader Participation, Broader Benefits: Increasing the Value of Foundation Evaluation
james irvine foundation Priority communities
Leaning into Learning in Times of Crisis: A Case Study in Unity Care's PropelNext Journey
Making it count: The Early Childhood Census 2020 Fund
investing in the affordable care act: Lessons from Two of The California Endowment’s ACA Investments
AEA: Evaluation in Service of Foundation-Wide Racial Equity
2020
The ripple effects of truth, racial healing, and transformation
Getty Marrow Undergraduate program impact report
Scaling Programs for Family, friend, and neighbor caregivers
Protecting Immigrant Rights and Fostering a Culture of Inclusion
LIstening for change: Evaluators of color speak out about experiences with foundations and evaluation firms
Cultivating Organizational change
January Newsletter
We Count LA: REadiness to learn evaluation
AEA: IN Person and virtual tools for group learning
AEA: How evaluators can shine their light on equity
2019
The Foundation Review: More than Listening - Harnessing the Power of Feedback to Drive Collaborative Learning
The foundation Review: Learning Together - Cohort-Based Capacity Building and the Ripple Effects of Collaboration
Jewish Community Foundation of LA: Helping los angeles jewish nonprofits thrive
Oakland Unified School District: Key findings from the retrospective study
User Guide: Weaving successful partnerships
Propelnext: California 2018 cohort study
Foundation review: EarLy Childhood development systems change
Foundation review: Evaluators as conduits for Foundation Learning
AEA: Reflections from evaluators of color
AEA: Building Equitable Evaluation Capacity in Communities
AEA: Creative tools for building consensus
AEA: A Values-Driven Approach to Evolving Evaluative Practice
2018
CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK: Kaleidoscope
The California Endowment: GROWING A DIVERSE HEALTH WORKFORCE
Ending pandemics: South Asia One Health Disease Surveillance NetworK
The James Irvine foundation: Fair Work
Jobs for the Future: California Impact Strategy
LA PARTNERSHIP FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INVESTMENT
PACKARD FOUNDATION: STARTING SMART AND STRONG
Packard FOundation: Innovations in FAmily, Friend, and Neighbor care
PropelNEXT: Alumni study
PubLIC policy institute of California: logic model development
Southern California grantmakers: Truth, racial healing & transformation
User Guide: an exploratory dialogue among funders and evaluators
User Guide: Knowledge sharing guide to strengthen grantmaking
