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In an article for Medium, FFI Founder and CEO Katya Fels Smyth shares a new name for an enduring phenomenon: wellbeing stripping. Because it's not just financial assets that are often drained from communities that can least afford it, as part of major development or public good projects.

FFI Senior Fellow Phyllis Becker, and Henry A. J. Ramos of The New School Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy explore how centering youth, families and communities creates more sustainable responses to crime.

The Fund for Shared Insight invited the Full Frame Initiative to share the Community Bill of Rights and Centering Community Self-Assessment Tool as integral resources for philanthropic organizations.

Not everyone in our country has equal access to our democracy, or to our democratic processes. Learn how designing for wellbeing can help support democracy in your community.

Michael Passero, Mayor of New London, Connecticut and Lotus Yu, Senior Manager of Engagement and Partnerships at the Full Frame Initiative share how the City of New London leveraged the government procurement process to distribute funds for transformative change that centers wellbeing and equity.

The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated use in our day-to-day work and lives requires a moment of reflection. Read our positions statement on AI and how we're adapting our work in response.

The way our country values people and places relies uniquely on financial capital as the instrument for measure and repair. We're advocating for a new economic framework that looks beyond financial capital and instead at wellbeing.

Learn about how organizations design programs and initiatives with wellbeing at the center, how they work past barriers, and what this approach has unlocked for themselves and their communities.

Infrastructure investments aren’t neutral. Imagine a future where people’s wellbeing is the starting place for how decisions are made about what, where, when and even whether we build. Our new tool is a step towards that future.

Are you interested in taking your systems change work to the next level? Join our Wellbeing Design Challenge to practice designing projects, initiatives and policy recommendations that create equitable access to wellbeing.

Learn how to design procurement to focus on equitable access to wellbeing so that you can direct funds to bidders who are doing transformational work.

In 2022, FFI was thrilled to bring together more than 100 leaders who are turning a fair shot at wellbeing into a reality at the inaugural Wellbeing Summit. Our charge? To learn from one another and design solutions for tackling some of our country’s largest challenges, together.