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

The 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.

What we’ve learned about managing polarities in crisis grantmaking

The rapid distribution of $35 million in relief funding provided critical lessons in the opportunities and challenges of crisis grantmaking

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

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

The foundation is working to understand and address the challenges confronting philanthropic evaluators

As a chaotic 2020 heads to an uncertain 2021, double down on strategic thinking and continuous learning

How meaningful accountability systems can strengthen foundation learning and improve impact

The schools profiled in this report include traditional district schools as well as charter schools in five cities