PORTFOLIO
PARTIAL LIST OF CLIENTS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Caring Across California, Together:
Investing in Cross-Sector Collaboration to Advance an Equitable Care Economy
CREATED FOR:
Blue Shield of California Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Metta Fund, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation
SUBJECT:
Detailed the results of a field-informed study examining the landscape and feasibility of cross-sector care economy collaboration in California and identifying how philanthropy can best support this collaboration.
On a Path of Self-Reckoning
CREATED FOR:
Walter & Elise Haas Fund
SUBJECT:
Offered reflections on how the Walter & Elise Haas Fund began to accelerate and amplified its discussions of how it could more effectively approach justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Results of the Fund’s JEDI Snapshot
CREATED FOR:
Walter & Elise Haas Fund
SUBJECT:
Shared the findings from an analysis of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund’s grantmaking using a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion lens.
Building Economic Security Today: Making the Health–Wealth Connection in Contra Costa County’s Maternal and Child Health Programs
CREATED FOR:
Maternal and Child Health Journal
SUBJECT:
Described how community input, staff feedback, and evidence from the field that the connection between wealth and health should be addressed compelled the Contra Costa Family, Maternal and Child Health Programs Life Course Initiative to launch Building Economic Security Today (BEST). BEST utilized innovative strategies to reduce inequities in health outcomes for low-income Contra Costa families by improving their financial security and stability.
Integrating the Life Course Perspective into a Local Maternal and Child Health Program
CREATED FOR:
Maternal and Child Health Journal
SUBJECT:
Described the Life Course Perspective and how one local Maternal and Child Health Program adopted and adapted this paradigm by creating and launching a Life Course Initiative to guide its programs and services, which was designed to reduce inequities in birth outcomes, improve reproductive potential, and change the health of future generations by introducing a longitudinal, integrated, and ecological approach to implementing maternal and child health programs.
SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Emergency Cash Benefits: Lessons From Innovation and Rapid Response
CREATED FOR:
Economic Opportunity Funders 2021 Fall Funder Learning Series
SUBJECT:
Explored lessons learned from 2020 emergency cash program experiments as well as efforts to scale up effective strategies to provide cash support to workers and families.
Why Care About Care? Intersectional and Intergenerational Policy Solutions for an Equitable Care Economy in a New World
CREATED FOR:
Asset Funders Network
SUBJECT:
Discussed the interwoven issues of the caregiving workforce, racial and gender justice, economic security, and health, within the context of the current pandemic, and intersectional short-term responses and long-term policy solutions.
The Potential of a Pilot: What Can Happen With Child Support Debt Relief?
CREATED FOR:
Asset Funders Network
SUBJECT:
Shared the results the San Francisco Child Support Debt Relief Pilot and its lessons and applications for other locations, and discussed how funders can support policy and systems changes that amplify the benefits of those programs.
Health & Wealth in California
CREATED FOR:
Asset Funders Network
SUBJECT:
Featured the Asset Funders Network grantmaker brief, The Health and Wealth Connection: Opportunities for Investment Across the Life Course, and highlighted the opportunity funders have to bridge interests and cross silos to make stronger connections between wealth building, economic security, and health.