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Harvard Business Review. One of the starkest lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic has been the deep health inequities present in the United States and around the world. Nearly everywhere, groups that have been economically and socially marginalized experienced higher...

Community Commons. The Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) is a framework that acknowledges that non-medical factors greatly affect health outcomes. While this concept originated long ago, the SDoH was published by the Wellesley Institute in 2011 in a concept paper,...

Deloitte. The 2020 Index ranks 163 countries’ social performance over the last ten years, based on 50 separate criteria. As a whole, the world is improving. Since 2011, the world average SPI score increased from 60.63 to 64.24, with the greatest gains in Access to...

Seattle Foundation Over the next 40 years, $59 trillion will be passed down across generations. So what does this massive shift in resources mean for philanthropy and our nonprofit community? As Millennials and Gen Xers from 21 to 40 take the reins, what will drive...

HealthTech Artificial intelligence has come a long way since it was first established as a field in 1956. Over 60 years ago at Dartmouth College, a group of scholars organized by computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term, said CDW Data Center...

Forbes In the past decade, grant-makers have focused on leveraging technology to better measure, manage, understand and report on philanthropy's true impact. The industry began to analyze itself and ask difficult questions about what kind of tangible change was being...

The Washington Post A July report by Deloitte’s Monitor Institute said early estimates of contraction in the U.S. nonprofit sector range from 10 percent to 40 percent. The report also said the need for nonprofit services will “dwarf” available resources.  “In the...

Harvard Business Review We found Public-Private Partnership project success had little to do with trying to force all parties to adhere to strict contractual obligations.  Instead, when we examined what led to productive working relationship over the life of these...

The New Yorker What the virus is doing is pulling a thread that is showing how many things are actually connected, and how deeply people are actually connected. But it’s also revealing the very different conditions in which we live because of social structures that...

Putnam Consulting Group Innovation almost always begins as a change in thought before it becomes a change in action. The field of health funding is a prime example of this; whereas health funding 20 years ago was almost entirely focused on clinical medicine, the field...