Strategy and Learning
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November 21, 2023This report examine the foundation's current grantee capacity-building practices and provides recommendations for enhancing the foundation’s approach.
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June 26, 2023Philanthropy 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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March 7, 2023The Walton Family Foundation is updating our evaluation tools to place trust and shared learning at the center. Here’s why.
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February 3, 2023The Walton Family Foundation has been on a learning journey for several years now. We have had successes, setbacks and detours. Our central insight so far: becoming a learning organization requires taking a systems-change view and applying it to our own work.
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June 13, 2022What we’ve learned about managing polarities in crisis grantmaking
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June 13, 2022The rapid distribution of $35 million in relief funding provided critical lessons in the opportunities and challenges of crisis grantmaking
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January 20, 2022We asked Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman about how addressing flaws in human judgment can improve organizational decisions
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January 6, 2022When teams talk about what went wrong, they learn what works, what should change and what to do better
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August 10, 2021The foundation is working to understand and address the challenges confronting philanthropic evaluators
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October 2, 2020As a chaotic 2020 heads to an uncertain 2021, double down on strategic thinking and continuous learning