Strategy and Learning
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March 27, 2024The foundation is exploring new ways of interpreting data and evidence to evaluate impact
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March 4, 2024A foundation-created evaluation tool helps improve future grantmaking
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January 10, 2024When seeking out an evaluation partner, finding the right match is a challenge for both parties — the commissioner and the evaluator.
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December 13, 2023Successfully addressing vital social issues — like the movement for racial justice and addressing climate crises — requires large-scale initiatives that address equity, complexity and systems. This report offers ways of grouping systems change outcomes and helpful ways of thinking about complex social change work.
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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