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Current Issue: Volume 11, Issue 2 (2019) Collaborative Learning - Free Access
This open access issue, sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation, is free to read.Full Issue
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Designing for Emergence: The McCune Charitable Foundation Grows Agency Across New Mexico
Marilyn Darling, Heidi Sparkes Guber, Jillaine Smith, and Wendy Lewis
Better Together: Engaging Stakeholders in Learning and Leadership to Guide Foundation Resources Toward Adaptive Systems Change
Nadine Long, Kimber P. Richter, Jennifer Elise Avers, and Rick Cagan
Learning Together: Cohort-Based Capacity Building and the Ripple Effects of Collaboration
Sonia Taddy-Sandino, Mary Gray, and Danielle Scaturro
From Idea to Initiative: Real-Time Learning for a Funder Collaborative on Nonprofit Strategic Restructuring
Way-Ting Chen, Lynn Alvarez, Carrie Harlow, Shannon Johnson, and Jennifer Price-Letscher
Below the Waterline: Developing a Transformational Learning Collaborative for Foundation Program Officers
Annie Martinie, Jaime Love, Michael Kelly, Kirsten Dueck, and Sarah Strunk
Evaluating for the Bigger Picture: Breaking Through the Learning and Evaluation Barriers to Advancing Community Systems-Change Field Knowledge
Thomas Kelly, Prudence Brown, Hanh Cao Yu, and Marie Colombo
More Than Listening: Harnessing the Power of Feedback to Drive Collaborative Learning
Clare Nolan, Kim Ammann Howard, Kelley D. Gulley, and Elizabeth Gonzalez
Learning About Neighborhood Change Through Funder-Grantee Collaboration
Debra Dahab, Brooke Finn, Lois Greco, and Nancy Kopf
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