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September 17, 2013 | Program Results Report
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a 25-year-old national program providing matching grants for innovative community-based projects aimed at improving the health and health care of underserved and vulnerable populations.
July 24, 2013 | Program Results Report
Between June 2006 and September 2012 consultants from Patrizi Associates convened four Evaluation Roundtables, one mini-Evaluation Roundtable, and one workshop with evaluation and program staff from foundations and prepared for a fifth roundtable.
July 14, 2008 | Program Results Report
Faculty at Emory University convened a symposium to explore the potential benefits to academic institutions as they increasingly develop new commercial ventures, and the potential threats they face to their integrity and their academic mission.
June 28, 2013 | Program Results Report
Scaling What Works supported the federal Social Innovation Fund, a public-private effort to strengthen communities, and also sought to expand the number of grantmakers collaborating to broaden the impact of high-performing nonprofits.
June 21, 2013 | Program Results Report
Researchers working through Extending the Cure published reports and journal articles on antibiotic resistance, proposed solutions, and disseminated findings. The project framed the challenge as one of safeguarding an essential social resource.
June 13, 2013 | Program Results Report
The Center for New Community conducted a grassroots effort to address health and related problems of immigrants working in meatpacking and poultry-processing plants in 12 rural communities in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
April 25, 2013 | Program Results Report
The Social Impact Exchange aims to fundamentally transform the way funds flow to high-quality nonprofit programs, using private sector investment models to identify effective strategies for addressing social problems and to harness support for them.
April 25, 2013 | Program Results Report
The Coverage Ideas from the Field call for proposals sought projects to increase the likelihood that the nation's health care debate would lead to solutions and build momentum to drive federal policy-makers to act.
February 25, 2013 | Program Results Report
Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living is a national program to develop affordable models of assisted living, with a focus on smaller and rural communities and low-income seniors.
December 20, 2012 | Program Results Report
Staff at the College of Allied Health and Nursing of Minnesota State University at Mankato created a curriculum and certification process for community health workers and advanced their role in the state's health care system.