Change Research Survey
During the Spring of 2021, Einhorn Collaborative commissioned a nationally representative study of 18-26-year-olds to understand their interest in various types of service and advocacy activities.
Good Medicine For Healthy Child Development: Nurturing Relationships
In the United States today, some 27,000 pediatricians provide care to 24 million children under the age of six. Many pediatric practitioners are overburdened
Emotional Connection
The Nurture Science Program (NSP) at Columbia University Medical Center focuses on a new, evidence-based understanding of the critical role emotional connection plays in healthy child development. Emotional connection describes a mutually positive nurturing relationship between parent and child that is crucial to modulating and regulating emotions, learning, and behavior.
Untethered: A Primer on Social Isolation
Untethered provides a cogent overview of the causes, consequences, and varieties of social isolation, weaving together insights from a range of disciplines. The primer also describes a variety of domains in which constructive and creative action is taking shape, including the built environment, technology, and civic engagement.
Friendships Matter: The Role of Peer Relationships in Interfaith Learning and Development
This report highlights the impact close interworldview friendships have on interfaith learning and development and provides recommendations on how to structure collegiate experiences to prepare graduates who are able to constructively engage in our religiously diverse democracy.
CSSP Case Study, Moving Beyond the Family Engagement Check Box
This case study examines the partnership that the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and Family Voices undertook to create and implement a process for engaging families in the Pediatrics Supporting Parents (PSP) initiative. It provides valuable insights about best practices for engaging families and describes a framework for implementing family engagement in systems-level initiatives.
Family Voices Framework for Assessing Family Engagement in Systems Change:
To explore strategies for ensuring, enhancing, and supporting the meaningful engagement of families at the systems level of health care, Family Voices created this Issue Brief which describes barriers to effective family engagement and identifies four domains and corresponding key criteria that provide a framework for considering how well organizations and agencies are engaging families.
Field Building for Population-Level Change
Many funders seeking to create population-level change are finding that scaling individual organizations isn’t enough. It takes meaningful, intentional coordination across a social change field’s actors—field building—to spark change on a massive scale. Bridgespan’s recent report identifies four key principles for funders to embrace to create conditions for field builders that accelerate their impact.
New Bridgespan Group Research Examines How Funders Can Spur Systems Change by Supporting “Field Catalyst” Organizations
The Bridgespan Group study looks at ways of achieving large-scale social change by focusing on organizations that serve as “field catalysts” harmonizing the coordination and progress of myriad actors within an ecosystem. Bridgespan studied more than 20 o f these entities and created a set of due diligence criteria and a process that funders can use to assess and invest in these organizations.
SSIR on Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations. In this 2011 article, John Kania & Mark Kramer describe Collective Impact, a systemic approach to social impact that focuses on the relationships between organizations and the progress toward shared objectives. They also explain the five conditions of successful collective impact initiatives.
