The interview with Chuck Harris, Blue Meridian Partners Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, explores the pioneering example of collaborative philanthropy promoted by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to fully scale promising programs for youth development

When reading the Chronicle of Philanthropy's May 1 feature story on the Leap Ambassadors Community, we got a kick out of a quotation by our friend Brad Dudding, the brilliant COO of the Center for Employment Opportunities. Perhaps channeling Mario, Dudding pulled off a rare triple mixed metaphor...

With Ayo Atterberry, senior associate with the Foundation’s Evidence-Based Practice Group and Leap Ambassador, we examine how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to empower grantees and help them become “evidence-based”

Our interview to Mr. Adam Phillipson, Great Apes Program Officer explores the conservation programs of the US-based grantmaking foundation

The Chronicle of Philanthropy acknowledges the "Leap Ambassadors Community" launched by Mario Morino and its work toward helping funders and their grantees build and sustain high-performing organizations

Our interview with Jeff Noel, President at Whirlpool Foundation and
 Vice President Corporate Communications & Public Affairs at Whirlpool Corporation, exemplifies how a corporate foundation can play a strategic role to address core needs of the business key stakeholders

An interview with Jon Baron, Vice President of Evidence-Based Policy at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, on how philanthropy can provide guidelines to private funders and public policies through impact assessment

The day after Christmas in 2013, a young boy named Emile in the small West African nation of Guinea came down with a high fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. He died two days later...

Two decades ago, Fred Ali, the leader of a nonprofit serving homeless youth, walked into the lobby of an imposing downtown Los Angeles office tower and pressed the button for the 30th floor. He got out of the elevator and headed toward the office suite of the Weingart Foundation.

We wish we had a nickel for each time we've had a discussion about helping grantees become high-performance organizations and heard a response like this from a funder: "I get it, but we're not exactly the Gateses or Waltons."