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When AI Augments Philanthropy: Disrupting the Typical Traps That Constrain Our Systems Change Strategies

Philanthropy has made systems change a fixture of its strategies, portfolios, and conferences, and yet the systems it seeks to influence keep behaving in remarkably durable ways. AI arrives at this moment as both an opportunity and a risk.
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  • Insight

Peer learning as a change strategy: three lessons from regional funder communities of practice.

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Action Resource: This is How We Build Power

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When AI Augments Philanthropy: Disrupting the Typical Traps That Constrain Our Systems Change Strategies

Philanthropy has made systems change a fixture of its strategies, portfolios, and conferences, and yet the systems it seeks to influence keep behaving in remarkably durable ways. AI arrives at this moment as both an opportunity and a risk.
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  • Insight

Peer learning as a change strategy: three lessons from regional funder communities of practice.

We convened two CoPs that covered the past, present, and future of racial equity and justice in philanthropic learning & evaluation
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Action Resource: This is How We Build Power

A resource for funders, community organizers, and all those interested in creating new philanthropic models that support true community self-determination.
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  • Insight

A Leadership Transition Message from CEI’s Board of Directors

Where we've been, where we are, and where we're going
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Building Power That’s Enduring, Not Episodic: Learnings From the Culture & Community Power Fund

How do marginalized communities build systemic power that is enduring rather than merely episodic? For many grassroots organizers, the answer is deeply rooted in culture.
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Moving to Offense in a Time of Collapse: A Scenario Framework for the Future of Equity-Centered Philanthropy

This report explores four plausible futures for equity-centered philanthropy over the next decade, offering philanthropic leaders a way to navigate profound uncertainty without losing sight of long-term equity goals.
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Learning-Oriented Accountability: How the Ford Foundation Navigates Impact & Social Justice

This teaching case features The Ford Foundation and its Natural Resources and Climate Change International Strategy.
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Learning: The Infrastructure Philanthropy Can’t Afford to Lose

When philanthropy abandons learning, it loses more than insight—it loses orientation. Learn why protecting and strengthening learning infrastructure is essential to philanthropy’s ability to act with both urgency and wisdom in moments of crisis.
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Building Power Through Birth Justice

Lessons from RWJF's efforts in advancing health equity by centering BIPOC-led birth justice organizations
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Building Power Through Local Base Building

Lessons from RWJF’s Investment in Multi-Issue Organizing for Racial and Health Equity
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Emergent Learning Can Make Your Systems Mapping More Robust and Equitable—Here’s How.

Emergent Learning principles, when applied to the systems mapping process, can support more equitable and robust systems mapping, strategizing, and learning, and thus a more accurate representation of the system you’re working in.
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A Framework for Embedding Learning in Systems Change

This five-step framework, developed and tested by a foundation, embeds learning in emergent systems change strategies. It prioritizes the testing of hypotheses and assumptions, uses learning questions, and calls for examining both confirming and disconfirming evidence.
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