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The Power of Public Opinion Research to Better Understand Communities and Inform Philanthropic Strategy

Matthew Carr

The Walton Family Foundation uses opinion research to helps us better understand public views and make meaningful, data-informed funding decisions

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Strategy and Learning
Breaking Ground: How Behavioral Science Can Help Cultivate Cover Crop Adoption Among Farmers

Kara Stevens

In the heartland, Practical Farmers of Iowa is testing new ways to shape farmer decision making to protect water and soil

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Strategy and Learning
How Shared Learning Can Drive More Effective Philanthropy

Johanna Morariu

A new guide to “participatory learning” offers foundations a roadmap to building trust with communities and having greater, more lasting impact

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Strategy and Learning
Making Decisions Based on Our Collective Knowledge, Not Just the Most Recent Data Point

Johanna Morariu

The foundation is exploring new ways of interpreting data and evidence to evaluate impact

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Strategy and Learning
Using an “APPLE” to Uncover the Hidden Potential in a Successful Grant

Mark Shields

A foundation-created evaluation tool helps improve future grantmaking

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Fixing Broken Systems Is Hard Work – And So Is Understanding Progress

Johanna Morariu

Philanthropy needs better approaches to measure its long-term impact. The Walton Family Foundation and peer philanthropies are learning and working together to build them

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Strategy and Learning
Learning and Improving Together: Taking a Fresh Approach to Understanding Grantee Impact

Johanna Morariu

The Walton Family Foundation is updating our evaluation tools to place trust and shared learning at the center. Here’s why.

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Strategy and Learning
Evaluating the Successes and Challenges of COVID-19 Relief Funding

Johanna Morariu

What we’ve learned about managing polarities in crisis grantmaking

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Strategy and Learning
Eliminating Bias and Noise from Philanthropic Decision-Making

Johanna Morariu

We asked Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman about how addressing flaws in human judgment can improve organizational decisions

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Strategy and Learning
How We Can Learn As Much From Failure as Success

David Wilkie

When teams talk about what went wrong, they learn what works, what should change and what to do better

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