Collective Impact

Thanks to a robust public-private partnership, Blue Shield of California has accelerated and expanded California’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution as a third-party administrator. In March 2021, in collaboration with Blue Shield…

Nikolaj Gilbert joined PATH, a global public health organization headquartered in Seattle, in January of 2020 – just as the first cases of COVID-19 began appearing globally and shortly before…

Baltimore is one of many U.S. cities that turned to a resilience corps in the past year to tackle the dual crises of the pandemic and unemployment, problems that have disproportionately impacted…

For decades, California, like much of the United States, has struggled with gaps in its health care workforce. Today, seven million Californians live in Health Professional Shortage Areas—a federal designation for counties…

Focus our processes on learning and improvement. Many foundations ask grantees and prospective grantees to jump through hoops that take up too much of their precious time, are out of…

In the United States, environmental giving comprises just 3% of total philanthropy (Giving USA). And it’s been stuck at this paltry amount of total charitable giving for more than a…

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide both a stimulus and a framework for corporate sustainability efforts: This is reflected in the 2018 BSR/Globescan State of Sustainable Business Survey, where more than 70 percent…

In enacting Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act, California voters in 2004 created and charged the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission with the responsibility of driving transformational…

In the summer of 2018, Mayor Naheed Nenshi of Calgary, Canada, decided to make mental health and addiction the cornerstone of his third term. Like many cities in North America,…

Tell us about the purpose of your organization. Rachel’s Network is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together women at the intersection of the environment, philanthropy, and women’s leadership. Our members…

The pandemic has hastened the need to evolve our businesses. For companies and entrepreneurs, this type of innovation doesn’t just mean bettering our products and services; rather, it entails taking…

As of this month, the majority of the global population has been impacted by the pandemic for more than a year. For the first time in a century, pretty much…