LEARNING & EVALUATION
OUR FRAMEWORK
- Demonstrating how we are being accountable to our mission, vision and values articulated in our strategic plan
- Assessing and adjusting our internal and external processes to be better partners with community members
- Sharing how we are moving the needle on issues that are impacting the region
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ROADMAP TO CHANGE
HOW WE LEARN
- Letters of inquiry, grant applications, site visits and year-end reports from grantee partners
- Conversations with health leaders in our region
- Collaborative tables with local funders and with residents in our service region
REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS
Since 2021, we have worked alongside our partners to develop and implement an evaluation framework that centers equity. Our learning and evaluation framework reflects our core values and centers lived experience and evidence-based practices to share wisdom, cultivate trust and maintain the highest standards for stewardship of our Foundation’s resources. We designed it to work in concert with our grantmaking practice, programmatic strategy, and commitment to community responsiveness. Therefore, this framework aims to ensure that we are on the right path toward our impact as a foundation.
In this report, we share insights about how our grantmaking practices and strategies—the who and how we fund—have shifted in the past five years to align with our strategic plan. While this report looks back at our grantmaking practice and grantee partner data from 2018 to 2021, it is important to understand the evolution of our grantmaking and priorities to inform where we must go as a foundation. We have gained insights that have validated how an equity lens, and moving at the speed of trust, has helped us refine our grantmaking to meet evolving hyperlocal health needs, influence the broader health ecosystem in our region, and advance health equity.