1. Stories & Learnings

Learnings

Get inspired and connected! Find all the learnings from staff, grantees, Fellows and more.

  • Coordinating the work of our contact hub

    Learning Staff note

    March 13, 2025

    We aim to be radically open in all that we do, and that includes being more accessible to more people and sharing what we learn along the way.

  • Making every dollar work through impact investing

    Learning Staff note

    March 13, 2025

    We have benefitted from the experience of other funders as we developed our impact investing approach. Now we are paying it forward and sharing what we have done and what we have learned.

  • Lessons from our impact investing experience

    Learning Paper

    February 17, 2025

    The spread of impact investing among foundations is a wonderful example of our field’s collaborative nature at its best. Now we’re ready to pay it forward by sharing our approach and what we’ve learned along the way.

  • Radically Open: Contact Hub

    Learning Paper

    February 14, 2025

    In this paper, we share what we’ve tried and learned thus far from creating the contact hub to make us more accessible to more people.

  • Radically Open: Performance Scorecard

    Learning Paper

    July 23, 2024

    For this paper, we are focusing on a newer practice for us: publicly reporting our performance on key indicators. We launched our performance scorecard on our website in May 2023.

  • Helping leaders thrive

    Learning Staff note

    June 25, 2024

    Investing in the capacity of people to lead change is one of the most effective ways to make our region better for everyone.

  • Ecosystem organizations: Great resources for the region

    Learning

    November 14, 2023

    Our region is filled with organizations that others just can’t do without. We call them Ecosystem organizations because they create the environment needed for others to solve problems in their communities. They’re recognized as go-to resources, infrastructure or intermediary organizations because they provide critical data analysis, advance public awareness and policy, spread great ideas and help build capacity or build and support leadership networks. As Ecosystem organizations, they work within and across sectors and issue areas to make the work of others better and stronger.

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