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Video: Upside Down or Right Side Up?

Our assumptions shape how we see the world and our narratives about it. In this video example, we see a world map as upside down; however, that is only because we've always been told it goes the other way.

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Narrative Change to Improve Older Youth Practice

Narrative change is critical in for older youth in foster care. This resource shares how to support a 12-month cohort to do it.

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Systems Change Webinar Recording and Slide Deck

A webinar and accompanying slides offering Champions a deeper dive on FFI's systems change framework.

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Two Philanthropic Leaders Walk Into a Fishbowl … and Get Real

Philanthropy is a field created through the accumulation of power and money. Like so many fields — and so many of us — it needs to be healed as it helps heal. Is this possible? Is there even an alternative?

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Carrying the Flame Forward: Good Endings & New Beginnings

Read the letter from FFI’s Founder & CEO Katya Fels Smyth about our journey winding down the organization over the past eight months and how the work will continue.

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How We Think About Outcomes

This guide helps align community and funder expectations for outcomes in complex, community-based interventions that resist standard measurement approaches.

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A Lot to Lose

This working paper critiques the over-reliance on evidence-based models in social policy and presents alternative approaches to avoid potential harm.

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Why Philanthropy Needs a Community Bill of Rights

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.

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Leveraging Procurement for Systems Change in New London, CT

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.

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SHIFT: From Short-Term Change to Lasting Wellbeing

This toolkit provides guidance for the philanthropic community and other stakeholders interested in supporting long-term, sustainable change for people living at the intersection of poverty, violence, trauma and oppression.

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Data Collection Analysis Tool

This tool provides a list of questions to consider when collecting program data, either required by the program itself or by a funder.

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