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July 23, 2015 — By Larry Kramer
Funding research is an element of nearly all our grant making programs and strategies—running a wide gamut that encompasses everything from ascertaining who takes advantage of the Bay Area's diverse performing arts to quantifying women's contributions to the economies of sub-Saharan Africa.
Research matters because knowledge is a powerful force for change, and high-quality evidence and analyses are indispensable to sound decision-making. The Hewlett Foundation thus has a vital interest in ensuring that the research we fund is both rigorously done and widely shared—which is why, for example, we decided last year to openly license our own work and to require grantees who receive project-based funding to openly license the work so produced.
We are equally concerned that any research we generate or support be done according to the highest ethical standards, especially when it involves living subjects. And while one might assume that this could or should take for granted, we think it important to say so clearly and unequivocally. Beginning this month, then, we will be adding language to our grant agreements stating that grantees doing research with human subjects "must have appropriate standards to ensure compliance with generally accepted research ethics," through the use of institutional review boards, informed consent policies, and the like. We are, in addition, asking grantees to warrant that such rules and processes will be followed and will require that grant dollars be returned if either of these conditions is not met.
These changes are not meant to impose needless burdens on our grantees. To the contrary, the new language states expressly that we do not wish to "micromanage or seek to interfere in the implementation of grants"—which is why we have not specified a particular review process beyond requiring that the one in place meet generally accepted ethical norms. Each grantee organization should be free, within that constraint, to develop the rules and processes that best suit its culture and capacity. By affirmatively stating our expectation that appropriate rules and review processes are in place and be followed, however, we hope to signal the importance of research ethics.
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July 21, 2015 — By Lindsay Louie
When Fay Twersky and I started in our roles with the Hewlett Foundation's Effective Philanthropy Group (in 2012 and 2013 respectively), we heard again and again that there was less funding available for infrastructure – the essential tools, networks and supports that foundations and nonprofits need to improve their practice – than there used to be. Many we spoke with asked if we would increase our infrastructure funding budget.
These requests were one key reason we helped launch a collective funding effort, the Fund for Shared Insight, to gather and focus funding on supporting learning and improvement in the philanthropic sector. But they also got us thinking about the data on infrastructure funding. We work regularly with other infrastructure funders, but we wondered if we had a complete picture of the funding environment. Was infrastructure funding really decreasing, and if so, to what extent?
To answer the question, we commissioned the Foundation Center to analyze nearly a decade of their FC 1000 dataset (2004-2012), which includes grants of $10,000 or more awarded annually by 1,000 of the largest private and community foundations in the United States. The report examines the grants in the dataset that are explicitly for nonprofit and philanthropic infrastructure support. Notwithstanding some limitations in the dataset, we have learned a lot from this analysis. We plan to support the Foundation Center to update the report with 2013 and 2014 data next year. You can find the full report on the Foundation Center's website, and read a blog post about it by Foundation Center Director of Research, Steven Lawrence, as well. The report is openly licensed under Creative Commons because we hope others will use it in ways that support their work.
Here are some highlights from the report:
Funding dips and rebounds. U.S. foundation support for nonprofit and philanthropic infrastructure totaled over $1 billion between 2004 and 2012. Funding has fluctuated over that period, reaching a high of $136.2 million in 2006 and dropping to $100.6 million in 2010 after the recession. In 2012, it was $134 million – nearly back to the high water mark of the period studied in this report. So it's not surprising that grantees were reporting to us in 2013 that there was less funding for infrastructure – it was still rebounding from the lows seen after the recession. We will need a few more years of data to see if the upward trend since 2010 continues.
Funding for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Infrastructure, 2004-2012 Source: Foundation Center FC 1000 dataset
Philanthropy is growing, but infrastructure funding isn't keeping pace. While the total dollar amount of infrastructure funding is nearly back to 2004-06 levels, infrastructure funding has decreased as a percent of total giving because overall giving has grown during the period. In 2004-2006, infrastructure funding was 0.65-0.85% of total giving – but then it dropped for five straight years to under 0.60%, and only got back to 0.60% in 2012. Not only has giving increased over the last decade, but the number of foundations and nonprofits has grown substantially as well. There were 66,000 foundations in 2004 and there are over 100,000 today (Foundation Center). The number of public charities grew 29.6% in the decade since 2002, with 963,243 registered public charities in 2012 (National Center for Charitable Statistics). This means there are many more foundations and nonprofits to use and engage in the infrastructure and many new organizations on one of the steepest parts of the learning curve.
Funding is relatively concentrated, though some shifts are occurring. In 2004, the top five funders accounted for more than half (53%) of all infrastructure support from the FC 1000. By 2012, the top five funders accounted for just 32%. On the recipient side, funding has actually concentrated, with the top five recipients receiving 32% of total support in 2012, up from 24% in 2004.
So what does this all mean?
First of all, it does not mean that organizations appearing in this report – the top five or even the top 20 – don't need additional support. They all have significant goals and need our continued (and increased) support to do the work they do. Organizations not appearing on the list do as well.
For funders who support infrastructure, we hope this report offers you a more detailed context in which to orient your funding.
For nonprofit and philanthropic infrastructure organizations, hopefully this data puts your experiences with funding into context and helps as you plan for the future.
And for foundations not yet supporting infrastructure in a significant way, we need you! Consider what organizations help you strengthen the work you do and the work your grantees do, are aligned to your approach, and/or whose work you value and fund them. Funding has to keep pace so that our sector's infrastructure organizations can continue to help us all improve our work.
July 17, 2015 — By Ruth Levine
It's surprisingly hard to be a by-the-book grantmaker because being an imperfect person gets in the way. When I depend too much on my own gut instincts, give in to obligations of friendship, guilt, or a sense of compassion, or feel sure that success is just a matter of working harder and harder, I'm unlikely to make the best decisions about strategies or grants. But those are, of course, very common sentiments among humans. Which is why it sometimes feels like the more human I am, the less good at grantmaking I can be.
I know that sounds harsh. Let me explain.
At the Hewlett Foundation, we design and implement philanthropic strategies that are intended to make the greatest positive difference for each dollar granted—a high bar. We value long-term relationships with high-performing grantees insofar as their work is aligned with our strategies. But we're supposed to make clear-eyed, rational choices about changing or ending relationships if the evidence tells us a different approach is likely to produce better outcomes. We build strategies around logic; portfolios around grantee organizations' capacities. The calculus of grantmaking, at least as practiced here, is mostly a left-brain exercise.
But, being people, we naturally have a hard time paying more attention to objective information, accumulated evidence, and coherent theory than to our hunches and hopes. It's hard to say no to friends, and sometimes it's equally hard to feel good about recommending a grant to an organization led by someone we don't much care for—even if the organization itself has much to offer. We may even find ourselves a little bored, sometimes, with the long-term, steady partners and have more fun thinking about all the new projects we could support if those same resources were uncommitted. And maybe most challenging of all, as people who in our past lives have worked intensely and dug deep into details, it's disconcerting to realize that as funders we often do more for grantees by getting out of the way. It's tempting to be part of the action, not just watching from the sidelines as the real work gets done.
To help us stay upright in the tug-o-war between heart and head, we have some tools and techniques. These include a strategy process, designed by our Effective Philanthropy Group, that asks fundamental questions and requires us to articulate assumptions underlying our theories of change. It also establishes expectations about external evaluations that will give us information about shortcomings we might otherwise be blind to. For the grant-by-grant decision-making, we have a practice of sharing proposals with colleagues for an independent view, and of having open discussions about whether a new idea genuinely adds value or is just novelty for its own sake. Feedback from our biannual grantee perception survey, administered by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, helps remind us how much organizations we support appreciate the latitude we try to give them to carry out their work as they see fit. And, quite frankly, a heavy load of grantmaking provides its own form of discipline: we just don't have time to get overly involved in the day-to-day work of grantees.
Our practices are designed to help us fight off favoritism, faddishness and (one hopes) foolish infatuation with our own ideas. Fortunately, though, they don't squeeze out all the space for being a human. What I see in my colleagues, in fact, is that some of their very best grant strategies leave room for inspiration, creativity, and serendipity; their most fruitful relationships with grantees are built on trust; and they do their work each day with passion and humor. As it turns out, the best grantmakers are people, with all the imperfections and contradictions that implies. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
July 10, 2015 — By Ruth Levine
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Let's call it the Zero Year.
You'd be hard pressed to find it in most grant proposals, but it's there. It's just that the first year of a new program or organization is often disguised as a typical period of work: a full complement of staff working at full tilt, delivering services, producing studies, or promoting policy change. Grantseekers usually project that they'll spend quickly from Day 1, and they promise funders that we'll see lots of productivity and impact. Eager for a new idea to hatch quickly and grow, we buy into the fantasy.
Then, somewhere around month nine we start hearing (occasionally sheepish) explanations for slow spending and a lack of results—often accompanied by a question about whether it's possible to get a no-cost extension on the grant. Although we almost always agree, it's with a twinge of disappointment and a sense that we should have known better. We've seen this movie before. Eventually, when the evaluation report is written years later, we'll see it in black and white: "Due to significant delays in initiating activities, the entire timeline of the work program lagged."
You know, we'd all be a lot happier—and look a lot smarter—if we just acknowledged reality and embraced the Zero Year. It's not a goose egg; it's an important period of early development.
During the first months of any new effort, leaders are dedicated to under-the-radar and relatively low-cost activities like recruiting, planning, setting up in-office systems and policies, establishing new partnerships, and going through the sometimes painful and always time-consuming process of getting activities off the ground. That's a necessary precondition to successful work later on, but it's not the work itself. And the rate of spending during the first year, and particularly during the first six months, is usually far less than half of any later period. And, quite naturally, there are few visible products, and no impact. That's not failure; that's just life.
While it's tempting to jump over the start-up phase in any grant proposal, it would be far better to describe it in detail and with realism—to build a Zero Year into both budgets and timelines. Grantees and funders could then have a conversation about what it really takes to put together the right team, to set up a website, and to do all the other vital, unglamorous things needed to initiate "real work." Together we could figure out what a sensible spending trajectory looks like, and when we might reasonably expect to see results. We could redefine success for the Zero Year as where an organization needs to be by its end in order to thrive in every subsequent year. And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if, in the discussion of the Zero Year, we figure out that it makes more sense to make a longer grant, giving the grantee greater financial security, a more realistic timeline for seeing results, and all the benefits that go along with it.
Best of all, by calling out the Zero Year as a specific and necessary step along a multi-year journey, we'd be honest not just with each other but also with ourselves.
July 9, 2015 — By Sara Davis, Jessica Bearman and Marc McDonald
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This article was collaboratively authored by Sara Davis, Director of Grants Management for the Hewlett Foundation, Jessica Bearman of Bearman Consulting and Marc McDonald, Director of Grants Management for the AARP Foundation. It is cross-posted from GMNSight, a publication of the Grants Managers Network. -Ed.
One of the great challenges in any organization, and one that reaches across all sectors is making sure the ideas and vision of the organization are in sync with the practices and operations needed to implement them well. Philanthropy is no different. Grantmaking practice is the "how" of grantmaking: decisions about how grants are structured and deployed, application and reporting processes, systems and requirements, and all the many explicit or tacit assumptions about what combination of grantees and grant structures make up a successful portfolio. Although not often described this way, practices are the most public and direct expression of what a grantmaker values. They are the first — and often the only — thing that the community sees of the funder. For all of these reasons, grantmakers can learn and strengthen their work by bringing together the two sides of their "brain" — grantmaking programs and grantmaking operations — more explicitly.
If we agree that practice is fundamental to, or at least a part of successful strategy, it makes sense that we'd think and talk about how grantmaking structure and process can best support grantmaking goals. But these conversations are often missing or don't include the right people. When these connections are missing or fuzzy, there is usually corresponding fuzziness about the information that might be needed to know if it's working. For example, some funders describe themselves as providing risk capital, but haven't had an explicit conversation about what constitutes a "risky" grant. They may not have determined how much of the portfolio should fit those criteria. And they may not be collecting key data to reflect on whether they are hitting their target over time.
Although many funders value practice in theory, it's not always evident in their day-to-day work. In a recent GMN survey of about 500 grants managers*, the vast majority of respondents stated that their boards didn't "get" the connection between how grants were structured and their ultimate success, and nearly half believed that their CEOs lacked a firm grasp of this connection. More concretely, fewer than half reported that their organizations evaluate practices, have practice-related goals in their strategic plan, invite feedback on practices, engage grants management in leadership conversations or discuss practices at the board level or during staff meetings.
Grants management is a linchpin
Some grantmakers, on the other hand, are deliberately working and learning across the operation/program divide in ways that build knowledge and effectiveness. In these organizations, grants management has frequently assumed a new and more central role, integrally tied to learning and thoughtful implementation of grantmaking. It makes sense. First, grants management systems hold massive amounts of data about grantmaking implementation. As technology has improved, the potential for pulling useful and actionable information from these systems is ever greater. Secondly, grants managers are generalists and process specialists, with knowledge and understanding of grantmaking practice that crosses the borders of different program and issue areas. Their birds' eye view across portfolios has the additional advantage of prioritizing the interests of the foundation as a whole, rather than in a particular program area.
Connecting the process and systems people with the program people allows for fluid conversations and learning to take place throughout the lifecycle of a grant. For example, data about average grant term or percent of restricted versus unrestricted support are tracked and made available at key moments for monitoring. Program staff can learn in real time about the structure and details of their portfolio—geography, focus, type of organization, population served or other key indicators. When grants management participates in early program conversations, systems can be set up to serve program goals and data can be integrated into decision-making. But to accomplish this level of integration, grants management-focused staff need to be in the room at the right times – to listen, participate, and even facilitate important conversations.
It is also true that some grants managers lack the right background or temperament for an expanded role. They may function as "rule police" in their organizations, a legacy that's hard to shake. Even for grants managers with greater interest, credibility, expertise, and opportunity, the reality of limited time and resources means that the day-to-day demands of grants management may make it hard to find time to proactively analyze and share data, contribute to strategy conversations, and gather data and feedback. To make the shift to a more strategic role, many grants management professionals will need to step up and fully engage with the opportunity to more effectively and efficiently oversee their grants.
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July 2, 2015 — By Pat Scheid
There's no question that the potential of the 'data revolution' first described in the U.N.'s "A World that Counts" report has captured the imagination of the international development community, especially data-wonks and donors concerned with how the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals will be measured. In the many discussions that have ensued, a consistent theme has been an aspiration to realize the potential of 'non-traditional data sources.' Non-traditional, for these revolutionaries, means not just the oft-cited Big Data, but forms of citizen-generated information that can shed light on real-world living conditions and public opinion.
Case in point—Senegal. In February, a team at Université Cheikh Anta Diop's Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Transformations Économique et Sociales in Dakar revealed the results of their 2014 national assessment of children's learning known as Jàngandoo (which means "learn together")—part of a growing movement of civil society organizations who are carrying out independent, citizen-led efforts to measure basic learning of children ages six to fourteen in reading and Math in nine countries in East and West Africa, South Asia and Mexico. (Les resultats en francais).
Jàngandoo has only been up and running for three years, but policymakers in Senegal have taken notice. M. Serigne Mbaye Thiam, Senegal's Minister of Education and no stranger to open data efforts, opened the national dissemination event, noting Jàngandoo's contribution to providing policy makers and ordinary citizens timely data on the status of children's learning that is easy to understand and interpret so that they can plan together actions for improving the quality of education. Since then, Jàngandoo has been rolling out regional dissemination events that have opened up a dialogue between citizen's groups and local education officials about why children aren't learning and what can be done about it.
Like other citizen-led assessments of learning, Jàngandoo takes place in homes rather than at school, and therefore captures data on children who do not attend regularly, have dropped out or never attended school, measuring learning earlier and more broadly than official national or regional assessments, which typically take place later in the primary cycle. Jàngandoo's learning assessments are administered in multiple languages—French, Wolof, Pulaar and Arabic, depending on the child's home language. According to UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015, Jàngandoo is the only national-level assessment that has measured Senegalese children's learning levels below Grade 9 in almost 10 years. The most recent PASEC, which measured children's performance at the end of class 2 and class 5 in eight Francophone countries, including Senegal, is from 2007.
Unlike other citizen-led assessments, Jàngandoo also measures children's knowledge of their own culture and environment, including certain aspects of sustainable development. Such locally-driven experimentation can also contribute to how UNESCO and others think about localizing how education for sustainable development gets measured in West Africa, a region where the effects of climate change and drought are an ever-present reality in nearly every child's life.
Jàngandoo is an initiative of the Université Cheikh Anta Diop's Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Transformations Économique et Sociales (Laboratory for Research on Economic and Social Transformation—LARTES). LARTES works with a network of twelve civil society organizations and a local technology firm that deploy a cadre of trained data gatherers armed with PDAs to reach all 45 departments of Senegal—all of whom make up what is known as Jàngandoo.
What's striking about LARTES is that its staff is comprised mainly of young men and women representing a new breed of independent researchers in West Africa. If there is a data revolution, these are the revolutionaries. What's their latest innovation? Ask Professor Abdou Fall, Jàngandoo's leader, about his vision for on demand, a la carte data services for local governments who aspire to develop data-informed plans for improving their schools. Their first client: the Mayor of Dakar.
All this takes coordination and careful oversight, but also a particular vision for how data can be used to solve real development challenges. The sort of vision set out by the Africa Data Consensus for bringing different data communities together to generate "data for public good and inclusive development".
While the global-level conversations about the data revolution are creating needed energy and networks, a cadre of data revolutionaries in civil society and tucked away in government agencies is also hard at work. Their progress often depends upon external funding that runs out before they can institutionalize their efforts. Perhaps what is needed then is a revolution in financing that will nurture the work of country-level data heroes like the LARTES team at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal. People who think differently about "data for whom," "data for what" and the speed at which data can be made useable to change people's lives for the better.
June 26, 2015 — By Heath Wickline
Denise Smith Amos, writing for Jacksonville.com, on the decision by the Duval County Public Schools Board—the district is the sixth largest in Florida and the twenty-second largest in the United States—to adopt the EngageNY open educational resources (OER) curriculum for its elementary schools:
Instead of hardback textbooks, Duval's elementary students will learn math and reading from sheets of paper and other materials downloaded from an online website.
A divided Duval School Board voted last week to adopt the free online program called EngageNY as its main curriculum for elementary reading and math next year, instead of buying new textbooks. The district expects to print out much of the materials.
It's an unusual step for a major urban district, but it is becoming more common as districts across the country scramble to find good materials that align with tougher academic standards in the national Common Core and Florida's similar college-ready guidelines.
By downloading materials instead of purchasing textbooks, Duval will save $10 million over two years, he said, while gaining greater assurance that students can meet Florida's standards.
Instead of hardback textbooks, Duval's elementary students will learn math and reading from sheets of paper and other materials downloaded from an online website.
A divided Duval School Board voted last week to adopt the free online program called EngageNY as its main curriculum for elementary reading and math next year, instead of buying new textbooks. The district expects to print out much of the materials.
It's an unusual step for a major urban district, but it is becoming more common as districts across the country scramble to find good materials that align with tougher academic standards in the national Common Core and Florida's similar college-ready guidelines.
By downloading materials instead of purchasing textbooks, Duval will save $10 million over two years, he said, while gaining greater assurance that students can meet Florida's standards.
The Hewlett Foundation supported the development of the EngangeNY materials through a series of grants to the University of the State of New York Regents Research Fund.
June 23, 2015 — By Dana Schmidt
The ultimate measure of success in education is not whether or not children attend school, but whether they learn. And creating a system in which learning is valued requires finding out what children are learning and building broad awareness about it. It was these two principles that inspired the organization Pratham in India to mobilize and train volunteers to conduct household surveys of children's learning. Since 2005, Pratham's Annual Status of Education Report (ASER, which means "impact," for short), has provided estimates of reading and math abilities—the fundamental building blocks for more advanced skills—for children aged six to sixteen in every rural district, aggregated for every state and for India as a whole. What's more, Pratham's pathbreaking efforts have inspired similar assessment efforts in nine other countries across the developing world. This is a growing movement that my colleague Ruth Levine and I have written about before.
The Hewlett Foundation has supported citizen-led assessments since the early days of our Quality Education in Developing Countries initiative—part and parcel of our strategy to place learning at the center of the definition of success in education. By involving citizens in an assessment simple enough to be understandable by even illiterate parents, a broadly shared picture of progress in improving education, from the household to the national level, has emerged. This process has fostered the transparency, accountability, and participation in education that lies at the heart of our next phase of work in international education.
Given the centrality of this work to our past and future strategies, the Foundation commissioned an evaluation to better understand the extent to which citizen-led assessments have been successful in their aims. Have citizen-led assessments succeeded in building awareness of the learning crisis? Moreover, has assessment translated into meaningful actions that will ensure more children are mastering the basic skills they need to succeed later in school and in life?
The full report on the findings from that evaluation, conducted by Results for Development, is worth a read—both by those who are engaged in efforts to improve learning and by those who are interested in harnessing data and engaging citizens to enhance government accountability.
My own top three takeaways from the evaluation are:
1.Thanks to citizen-led assessments, education debates are now focused on learning. Citizen-led assessments are by no means the first efforts to measure learning. They are, however, the first efforts to measure foundational skills of reading and math independently and at scale. Before ASER came along, the global community did not know just how many children were failing to learn even the most basic skills. Shockingly dismal results—like the fact that half of Indian fifth graders are unable to read—demonstrated in stark terms that challenges in learning are pervasive and start early. This wake-up call contributed to a shift in discourse within countries and internationally.
In Kenya, for example, the latest education sector plan cites the Uwezo assessment findings and includes a central emphasis on improving learning outcomes. Globally, deliberations on setting the Sustainable Development Goals are headed towards a goal for education that focuses on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all. Citizen-led assessments are changing the debate about education.
2.Citizen-led assessments provide clues for what and how to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals. Not only have citizen-led assessments helped to shape what is in the Sustainable Development goals, they also provide insights on how those goals should be monitored. Here three points are important:
First, focusing on ensuring that children are mastering foundational skills and are doing so early in their education is critical. If we continue to leave children behind on these skills they will not have a fair shot at developing other deeper learning skills that are critical for their life chances.
Second, the evaluation results show that citizens can be reliable data collectors. Citizens can play a central role in monitoring whether their governments are making progress against their development goals.
The third and final insight is that learning assessment can be done meaningfully and affordably. The evaluation also tells us that even simple assessments provide reliable estimates of skills that matter—and they reveal whether goals of inclusion and equity are being met better than school-based assessments, which fail to capture children who drop out, attend irregularly, and/or attend informal schools. And they do all this at a fraction of the cost of other assessments, providing a clear model of the kind of meaningful, affordable monitoring mechanisms that will be needed for the new Sustainable Development Goals.
3.There are several avenues for citizen-led assessments to explore that may help to deepen their impact and influence. Although citizen-led assessments have had a tremendous influence on the education debate, they have not resulted in widespread, effective action for learning improvement. The evaluation provides a road map for how these assessment efforts can intensify their impact in the years ahead. Recommendations to improve quality, including the comparability of the findings across time and languages, have already been taken onboard. Experiments are also underway to extend the roles of volunteers and partner organizations to try to more effectively stimulate actions by citizens and governments that improve learning. Insights about the ways in which information on social service outcomes can drive social accountability stands to benefit not only the growing family of citizen-led assessments, but also the broader field of transparency and accountability.
Citizen-led assessment have accomplished tremendous progress in putting learning at the center of education. The results of this evaluation are well timed to help inform the current and growing members of the newly-established People's Action for Learning Network—which provides a platform for organizations to continue learning from each other, to draw on joint resources and expertise for improvement over time, and to nurture organizations who are interested in undertaking similar work—to iterate on a powerful design and move towards even greater progress.
UPDATE: The UNESCO Institute of Statistics, , a grantee of our Global Development and Population Program, recently took the initiative to translate this post into Spanish. Thanks to Alejandra Masa López and Ana Aznar Castillo of Spain's Instituto Nacional de Evaluacíon Educativa (INEE) for their work on the translation.
June 19, 2015 — By Ruth Levine
If I told you that a half-day training program creates life-changing benefits for women and their families, I'd understand if you were skeptical. Yet, implausible as that sounds, researchers at the University of California San Francisco Bixby Center have shown precisely how it can happen. And it's a story that deserves to be shared.
Let's start with the world as we know it. When a woman in the U.S. asks her doctor about contraception, she'll usually get a prescription for birth control pills or a recommendation that her partner use condoms. This has been the practice for many decades, despite the development of far more effective and convenient forms of birth control—the IUD and the contraceptive implant.
Although long-acting reversible methods of contraception, or LARCs, have been proven to be highly effective and safe for women of all ages, whether they have had children or not, most women don't hear about them from their doctors because of outmoded beliefs that these methods are appropriate for older married moms. Providers shy away from routinely offering LARCs because they may lack confidence in their ability to insert the devices correctly and clinic routines may not accommodate slightly longer visits. Even unfamiliarity with the right billing codes can prevent a woman from getting the most effective form of birth control—a particularly crucial issue now that the Affordable Care Act covers all methods.
These barriers to good care have bad consequences: Only 9 percent of women in the U.S. use LARCs, while they are much more popular in other industrialized countries. And because women who depend on pills and condoms are much more likely to get pregnant by accident than women who use long-acting methods, low use of the most effective birth control is partially responsible for the fact that half—yes, you read that right: half—of all pregnancies in this country are unintended.
Now: let's create a better world. A few years ago, a team of researchers at the University of California San Francisco, led by Cynthia Harper, decided to do something about this problem. The UCSF team developed a half-day training program to update physician knowledge and to train all clinic staff about the relative benefits and risks of different contraceptives, with a focus on LARCs. The aim was to raise the knowledge level about the most effective birth control methods—and the hope was that this would lead not only to more women using these methods, but eventually to fewer women being surprised by a pregnancy they had been trying to avoid. The training was distinguished by its use of up-to-date medical evidence, and by a comprehensive clinic-wide approach: everyone from schedulers to billing clerks to the doctors themselves learned about how to integrate underused contraceptives into their practice.
Then, in partnership with Planned Parenthood, the UCSF team tested the training program in the most rigorous way possible—through a randomized trial in which 40 clinics around the country were assigned by lot to either get the training or not. The researchers then measured changes in use of LARCs by patients coming in for family planning visits in all the clinics, and followed up with the patients to find out whether they became pregnant over the following year. (Both the development of the training program and the research were supported by grants from the Hewlett Foundation's Global Development and Population Program.)
The results, appearing in the Lancet this week, are impressive. They show for the first time how a clinic-based intervention can decrease unintended pregnancy. The researchers found, first, that in clinics where the training had been conducted, 71 percent of women were informed about LARCS, compared to 39 percent in the business-as-usual clinics. Second, in clinics where personnel had been trained, 28 percent of women coming in for a family planning visit chose an IUD or an implant, compared to 17 percent of comparable women in other clinics. Third, and most remarkably, the training halved the number of unintended pregnancies.
Bottom line: a short and relatively inexpensive training of health care providers dramatically reduces the emotional, physical, and societal costs of unintended pregnancy.
That, my friends, is true value for money.
June 16, 2015 — By Helena Choi
Quick- What do the following cities have in common: London, Arusha, Dublin, Cape Town, Marseille, Accra, Oslo, Nairobi, and Addis Ababa?
A) They were candidates to host the 2020 Summer Olympics
B) They are each home to three or more UNESCO World Heritage sites
C) They have hosted the "PopPov" annual research conference
The answer is C, or at least it will be soon. The past tense, hosted, will apply to Addis Ababa only after June 26, 2015. What makes the upcoming PopPov conference special is the topic of this post.
Since 2005, the Hewlett Foundation has supported the Population and Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov), a program aimed at building a body of evidence on the relationship between population dynamics and micro- and macro-economic outcomes. Nearly $30 million from the Hewlett Foundation and over $10 million from several European research councils and the World Bank have supported more than 100 research projects that resulted in well over 250 papers. (An earlier blog post about the evaluation of PopPov provides more details about the Initiative and its achievements.)
The primary goal of PopPov was to help re-energize the field of economic demography, which had become less salient within development policy circles over the preceding fifteen years or so, but still had much to offer on some of the most vexing public policy challenges. Contributing to the scientific body of knowledge and policy impact were important goals too, but secondary to this focus on people. The theory of change went something like: 1) attract top talent and support them to do cutting-edge research, which would result in 2) compelling research results, which then could 3) help policymakers make more informed policy decisions. The choice to prioritize field-building guided two key decisions about PopPov right from the beginning. The first was to support research through open calls, rather than being directive about the exact research questions to pursue. The second was to organize an annual research conference to allow for scholarly exchange around ongoing work.
Those annual conferences have truly been a smart investment. Sure, there are more than a few PowerPoint slides with complicated Greek letter-filled equations and tiny tables of regression results; this is a research conference, after all. But somewhere between Paul Schultz tearing apart another paper for methodological flaws, David Canning scooping up another young researcher to join him at Harvard, and Nkang Moses Nkang and Chalachew Desta Getahun, just two among the fifty or so dissertation fellows deepening their friendship over another meal, we have witnessed a field being reinvigorated. And that has been pretty magical.
The conferences have been a great opportunity to deepen collaborative relationships with the other funders and partnering organizations too. Over the years, the Center for Global Development and the Population Reference Bureau have served as the Secretariat for PopPov, taking on the responsibility for organizing the annual conferences, keeping up to date on the research outputs, identifying dissemination opportunities, and many, many other tasks. Four European research councils—NWO/WOTRO, Research Council of Norway, Economic and Social Research Council, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement/Agence Française de Développement—and the World Bank have co-sponsored research, and they have certainly helped to make PopPov a more global, vibrant network. These partnerships have helped to pave the way for other multi-donor research efforts, such as Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW), by setting an important precedent. The Institute of International Education managed the PopPov dissertation fellowship program, and has supported over fifty fellows to date. The evaluation pointed to the engagement of these young scholars in the population and development field as one of the greatest successes of PopPov. We couldn't agree more.
After a decade of supporting PopPov, the Foundation is planning to pursue a focused research agenda more closely aligned with the strategic objectives of our Global Development and Population Program. We're not exiting PopPov so much as evolving our approach in response to the lessons we have learned. Guided by the findings and recommendations from the evaluation, we intend to maintain the field we have helped to strengthen and to ensure important research results contribute to policy discussions, such as those around the formulation of the post-2015 development agenda setting process.
The upcoming PopPov conference will be the last research-focused meeting, and is being billed as the capstone event. At the risk of being a little self-congratulatory, we hope the conference provides an opportunity for all of us to reflect on and celebrate the achievements of PopPov.
As a program officer responsible for shepherding this work since I joined the Foundation in 2009, I've been doing some reflection too. Looking back on the past six years, I can sum up my emotions in three words: awe, frustration, and gratitude.
I still remember walking into my first PopPov conference in Cape Town in January 2010 feeling a little star-struck just by being in the same room with so many researchers whose papers I read in graduate school. Even now, I find it remarkable to see the many luminaries and would-be luminaries all deeply engaged in work on population and development issues under the PopPov tent.
While the field-building focus did draw many top names and new researchers, there's no denying that the choice to support research through open calls has made it challenging to influence policy decisions. Policies are rarely swayed by a single piece of research, and that's probably a good thing, since science works best when findings from multiple studies point toward the same conclusions. A body of work on a narrow topic, or a number of research projects focused on a particular country, are more likely to get the attention of policymakers. The "let a thousand flowers bloom strategy" PopPov pursued resulted in a beautiful field, but it has been difficult to create coherent "bouquets" from these flowers. It's been frustrating at times to not be able to draw a clear and quick line from research to policy impact. But I've since come to see that it can take many years for research to influence policy, and that impact comes in many forms (including in the form of spurring interest in additional research).
Overall, I feel grateful to have had a part in supporting and shaping the PopPov network. I look forward to seeing what will come from these thousand flowers—we've already seen the seeds of PopPov-funded research in the growing interest among African policymakers on the demographic dividend, for example. Many of the dissertation fellows—the seedlings—have gone on to pursue careers at top universities, think tanks, and the World Bank. There are numerous examples of cross-pollination too, as network members develop research collaborations that begin over coffee break chats at the PopPov conferences.
Now that I've stretched the flowers metaphor way too far, I'll close with sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed to PopPov over the years, from our fellow funders and partners to all the researchers. (And by the way, in case you were wondering: Addis Ababa has never hosted the Olympics, but at the last summer Olympics in 2012, Ethiopia won three gold medals (all by women!); and there are nine UNESCO World Heritage sites in Ethiopia.)


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3 March 1979
Halton, Buckinghamshire, England
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Andrew Triggs Hodge
Andrew Triggs Hodge MBE (born 3 March 1979) is a British rower and a triple Olympic Gold Medallist and quadruple World Champion.
Born in Halton, Buckinghamshire, he moved to Hebden near Grassington in 1980. He went to Burnsall Primary School in Burnsall then Upper Wharfedale School, a secondary modern school in Threshfield. He then studied at South Craven School, a secondary school near Skipton, at sixth form. Before studying Environmental Science at the Stoke campus of Staffordshire University where he took up the sport of rowing with the Boat Club[1] on Rudyard Lake and St Catherine's College, Oxford where he undertook an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management.
Boat Race[edit]
Whilst at Oxford University, Hodge was a member of Oxford University Boat Club and took part in the Boat Race in 2005. Both universities had extremely strong intakes that year, with Cambridge boasting several world champions and the Oxford crew including 2004 Olympic silver medallist Barney Williams and eventual Beijing and London coxless four crewmate Pete Reed. Oxford, stroked by Hodge, won the epic contest by 2 lengths in a time of 16 minutes 42 seconds.
International rowing career[edit]
Hodge won his first senior international vest in 2002. He sat in the four seat of the Great Britain Eight, which made the final of the Rowing World Championships in Seville. He occupied the same seat a year later when the Eight won the World Cup event at Lucerne, and a bronze medal at the championships in Milan.
2004 was the year that Hodge entered the British rowing scene. The buildup to the Olympics for the GB Men's Rowing Squad was somewhat disrupted due to illness, injury and variable form. Hodge and his partner Alex Partridge then won the final selection trials. Partridge was promoted to Britain's top boat until sidelined by injury, Hodge remained in the eight. Illness to the Eight's stroke – Tom James – the night before their Heat in the Olympic competition was a particular blow, and whilst James returned for the repecharge, the crew failed to make the final, finishing 9th overall.
Having stroked Oxford to victory in the 2005 Boat Race, Hodge returned to international competition. Following the retirement of Matthew Pinsent, James Cracknell and Ed Coode, a new coxless four was formed with Andrew, his Oxford crewmate Pete Reed, Alex Partridge and Olympic Champion Steve Williams.
Hodge went on to win gold with this crew (Tom James was promoted in place of Alex Partridge) in Beijing to defend Great Britain's title in the event. Post-Olympics Hodge and Reed decided to attempt a pair project with a view to competing at London 2012 in that event. Unfortunately due to the emergence of the New Zealand pair of Eric Murray and Hamish Bond (future world best time holders and Olympic champions) the likelihood of a gold medal in the event was unlikely and so the pair were moved back into the coxless four in 2012 to strengthen that boat's chances. The crew of Hodge, Reed, Tom James and Alex Gregory went on to win the gold medal at the Olympic rowing regatta and beat their Australian rivals who had pushed them hard through the season.
Hodge was world champion in the men's eight and four during 2013 and 2014 respectively. After being diagnosed with glandular fever during 2015, Hodge was forced to miss the entire racing season. He began his comeback in the autumn of 2015 and was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the men's eight. After an inconsistent season, the British eight won Olympic gold on the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio over Germany and the Netherlands.
Other rowing[edit]
Hodge has been a member of Molesey Boat Club since 2000 when he moved to London.
Just hours after winning the 2005 World Cup event at Dorney Lake, Eton, Hodge made a guest appearance in St Catherine's College 1st VIII, who were competing in Summer Eights. He was joined in that crew by fellow international competitors Christopher Liwski and Colin Smith. Perhaps unsurprisingly, their opposition Hertford College succumbed easily.
Hodge was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[2]
- 2016 Rio de Janeiro – Gold, Eight (three)
- 2012 London – Gold, coxless four (stroke)
- 2008 Beijing – Gold, coxless four (stroke)
- 2004 Athens – 9th, Eight (four)
World Championships[edit]
- 2014 Amsterdam - Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2013 Chungju – Gold, Eight (six)
- 2011 Bled – Silver, Coxless Pair (stroke)
- 2010 Karapiro – Silver, Coxless Pair (stroke)
- 2009 Poznań – Silver, Coxless Pair (stroke)
- 2007 Munich – 4th, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2006 Eton – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2005 Gifu – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2003 Milan – Bronze, Eight (four)
- 2002 Seville – 6th, Eight (four)
World Cups[edit]
- 2013 Eton Dorney – Gold, Eight (Stroke)
- 2013 Sydney – Gold, Eight (Stroke)
- 2012 Belgrade – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2011 Lucerne – Silver, Coxless Pair (stroke)
- 2011 Munich – Gold, Coxless Pair (stroke)
- 2009 Banyoles – Gold, Coxless Pair (stroke)
- 2008 Poznań – Silver, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2008 Munich – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2007 Lucerne – Silver, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2007 Amsterdam – Gold, Eight (six)
- 2007 Linz – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2006 Lucerne – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2006 Poznań – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2006 Munich – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2005 Lucerne – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2005 Munich – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2005 Eton – Gold, Coxless Four (stroke)
- 2004 Lucerne – 6th, Eight (four)
- 2004 Munich – 4th, Eight (four)
- 2004 Poznań – 5th, Eight (four)
- 2003 Milan – Bronze, Eight (four)
- 2003 Lucerne – Gold, Eight (four)
- 2003 Munich – Bronze, Eight (four)
- 2002 Munich – 6th, Eight (four)
- 2002 Lucerne – 6th, Eight (four)
World Rowing Under 23 Championships[edit]
- 2001 – 6th, Coxed Four
GB Rowing Senior Trials[edit]
- 2010–2012 – 1st, Coxless Pair
- 2004–2008 – 1st, Coxless Pair
See also[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andrew Triggs Hodge.
- ^ Gigi FLorentin-Lee. "Staffordshire University Boat Club Homepage". Archived from the original on 25 October 2009.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58929. p. 18. 31 December 2008.
- Kubatko, Justin. "Andrew Triggs Hodge Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
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Klitschko-Povetkin Issues Resolved, Finalized Deal Close
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Bernd Boente, the manager of WBO/IBO/WBA/IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko (60-3, 51 KOs), and Russian promoter Vladimir Hryunov, who also manages mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (26-0, 18 KOs), spoke to BoxingScene.com on Friday morning in a joint interview - where both men agreed that all of issues related to random drug testing have been resolved and both sides are well on their way to signing the finalized agreement on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. The fight between Klitschko and Povetkin is scheduled for October 5th in Moscow, Russia.
The biggest issue with finalizing the fight was the ongoing dispute regarding the selection of the organization to handle the random drug testing. Klitschko and his team wanted to use NADA, which is based in Germany. And Povetkin's side wanted RUSADA, based in Russia, to handle the testing.
The two sides, who met together on Friday morning in Hamburg, have hammered out the details. There will be a confidentiality agreement and the details of their agreement will not be disclosed with the media.
There was some confusion regarding some comments that were circulated in the Russian press, where Andrei Ryabisnky stated that Klitschko's side rejected the idea of random drug testing during training camp. That issue been solved as Ryabisnky stated that he was misquoted.
Ryabinsky is the Vice-President of the Professional Boxing Federation of Russia, and the event partner of Hryunov, who secured the rights to the card with a winning purse bid amount of $23 million dollars.
"I met with Mr. Ryabinsky today and there was a misunderstanding [with various comments written in the press]. That is why I didn't understand those comments because Wladimir, from the start, wanted full random testing during training camp. Those problems [have been resolved] and we are on our way [to a finalized deal]. I believe the contract will be signed on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week," Boente told BoxingScene.com.
Hryunov was equally excited.
"There are no more issues between the two sides. We had a great meeting earlier today. Mr. Ryabinsky has a lot of respect for Klitschko and his team. We are very excited that that everything is coming together and we look forward to signing the contract next week and then staging one of the biggest events in the history of boxing," Hryunov told BoxingScene.com.
i can't believe what i'm reading here , haye ran like a little girl , then *****ed about his toe . if his toe was hurting so bad how did he run so good . i swear these brits are…Comment by Pirao on 06-08-2013
[QUOTE=Burzum;13455008]Wouldn't mind Wlad-Haye II. [B]The first fight was close.[/B] Both promised KO so we need a second in a sense.[/QUOTE] No it wasn't. But I don't see who else Wlad could fight after that (except a string of Wach/Pianeta-like opponents…Comment by fladz on 06-08-2013
Confidentiality agreement? Excellent, what we need in boxing is for the drug testing in major fights to be shrouded in secrecy. Openness and transparency for something so important would be a nightmare.Comment by TGD on 06-08-2013
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In June 2010, then-Secretary of State Karen Handel was leading the pack of Republican gubernatorial hopefuls. Then pro-life activists took a coathanger to her political career.
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With just a sextant and a cask of rum he bought last Sunday, Gov. Nathan Deal has bravely ventured into the great uncharted territory of spending taxpayer money on schools and prisons and such. Here there be monsters.
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Someone must have spiked Athens-Clarke Commissioner Ed Robinson's Wheaties Thursday morning.
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Reps. Paul Broun and Bill Cassidy, R-La., have made a "friendly wager" over the Georgia-LSU SEC title game on Saturday.
If UGA wins, Cassidy will vote to repeal Obamacare. If LSU wins, Broun will vote to privatize Social Security. It's a win-win!
Kidding. Broun actually put up a meal of Chik-Fil-A and Coca-Cola for Cassidy's staff, while Cassidy is betting a spread of oysters and Louisiana hot sauce.
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Democrats lost the U.S. House, lost seats in state legislatures all over the country and lost every statewide office in Georgia last year. So what? They elected a new mayor in Winterville!
The Democratic Party of Georgia is citing, among other races, Emily Eisenman's win over incumbent Jim Mercer (I guess he's a Republican) as reason for the rank-and-file to get excited.
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In the midst of controversy over the sexual harrassment allegations against Herman Cain, the former pizza magnate won his first endorsement from a Georgia politician today. And it's from a woman, no less: State Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Buford.
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The Athens GOP came out this morning against the Clarke County education sales tax on the ballot today, while the Clarke County Democratic Committee is urging voters to support it.
What? Republicans oppose taxes and spending, and Democrats want more funding for schools? Shocking.
Here's what the local Republicans had to say:
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This just in from Secretary of State Brian Kemp:
"Atlanta – Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced today that the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Georgia has submitted a letter indicating the candidate whose name will appear on the March 6, 2012 Democratic Presidential Preference Primary Ballot. The candidate's name is Barack Obama.
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