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Re-envisioning Public Broadcasting: The Ford Foundation and the Public Broadcast Laboratory
Get PDFThis report explores the rise and fall of the Public Broadcast Laboratory (PBL), a short-lived television experiment created and funded by the Ford Foundation. PBL aired at a moment of transition and transformation for the noncommercial television sector. Both the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television had issued proposals to put the sector on stronger financial footing, and the latter's recommendations provided the blueprint for the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act. Federal support, coupled with the greater public attention it augured, brought both enthusiasm and scrutiny to noncommercial television. PBL, conceived prior to the passage of the act and debuting two days before it was signed into law, intended to demonstrate the potential of a nationally interconnected public television service. Based on a preliminary examination of Ford Foundation records on PBL, this report illuminates how PBL's aspirations were crafted with little attention to or interest in the history, development, audiences, frictions, and aspirations of the noncommercial television sector. To unpack the history of PBL is to see how this pivotal moment in the development of public television paradoxically was propelled less by the wisdom and experience of those who had built the sector than by the enthusiasm of journalists and producers who sought to escape the limitations of the commercial sector by reinventing public broadcasting
From Experiment to Institution: The Rockefeller Foundation's Role in Shaping Public Health in Colonial India
Get PDFDuring the 1930s, the Rockefeller Foundation began to offer technical expertise and funding to develop and improve public health measures and initiatives across colonial India. This paper explores one type of initiative that the Foundation led - Â the establishment of health units. In later years, the Foundation's role in driving India's community development during the 1950s can be traced back to this earlier period of experimentation in public health. The broader aim of this research is to reveal alternative agencies beyond the state that had an important role in contributing to shaping development projects in India. In relation to public health since the ending of the First World War, state governments had limited financial power and capacity and increasingly relied on non-state actors, both from within and beyond India, to help fund public health projects, as well as broader development projects. This paper demonstrates that not only did the Rockefeller Foundation have an immediate impact on securing improvements on public health ideas and practices, but it also had a long-term impact on shaping popular perceptions towards health, as well as state approaches towards public health
Multistakeholder Partnerships: A Policy Brief for Policy Makers
Get PDFTo address today's most pressing social and environmental challenges, we need to partner across sectors. These challenges are complex, interlinked, and systemic—and cannot be solved by any one sector alone. Multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) offer a collaborative, long-term approach to address these challenges more effectively. This brief draws on three regional studies led by WINGS and its partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to provide guidance to policymakers on how to enable and strengthen multistakeholder partnerships
GuÃa para Empezar un Negocio en Louisiana
Get PDFEnglish: The Business Start up Guide in Spanish is a downloadable PDF that contains an explanation of the legal business entities, the steps to registering/formalizing a business in Louisiana and provides a step by step tutorial for 20+ entrepreneurial trades including construction, food and beverage, salon/spa etc.Espanol: La GuÃa de Inicio de Negocios en español es un PDF descargable que contiene una explicación de las entidades comerciales legales, los pasos para registrar/formalizar un negocio en Luisiana y proporciona un tutorial paso a paso para más de 20 oficios emprendedores, incluyendo construcción, alimentos y bebidas, salón/spa, etc
At Common Cause: How Development Funders and Philanthropy Collaborate in Africa
Get PDFPhilanthropists, development aid agencies, multilateral banks, and development finance institutions are taking a fresh look at how they can achieve more together. It comes at a critical moment when overseas aid budgets are shrinking, and social needs are growing.This report focuses on collaborations that benefit Africa. The research involved talking with representatives of 29 development funders, foundations, and intermediary organisations in late 2024 and early 2025. Based on the interviews, they identified three models of collaboration that follow a sliding scale of formality and structure: 1) information sharing and networking; 2) pooling capital for increased impact, including blended finance that de-risks socially beneficial investments to attract private investors; and 3) joint initiatives that draw on participants' technical skills and networking ability to magnify the impact of financial commitments
The Connection Opportunity: Insights for Bringing Americans Together Across Difference
Get PDFExperts often warn of a growing crisis of connection. Yet in a time when Americans feel divided, do they really want to connect with others—especially with those who are different from them? And if they do, what's standing in their way?To answer these questions, More in Common conducted a two-year study involving over 6,000 Americans nationwide, with regional spotlights on the Pittsburgh, Kansas City, and Houston metro areas. Our research focused on four key areas of difference: race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion, and political viewpoint. Our study reveals that most Americans value and are interested in connecting across difference, especially when working toward a shared goal. When asked what challenges stand in the way of forming these connections, Americans most commonly report a "lack of opportunity." Furthermore, the more people believe others are engaging across difference (and value such engagement), the more interested they are in doing so themselves.Strengthening a culture of connection in a nation as diverse as the US is not just possible—it's necessary for creating a flourishing, pluralistic society. Our study provides insights into what fosters interest in connection. We also give broad recommendations for how to build more meaningful connections across lines of difference nationwide.Community leaders, organizations, and individuals can use these findings to better understand what drives connection and uncover strategies to foster deeper, more meaningful relationships across difference in their communities
Communicating in a Polarised Environment : Insights and practical strategies for philanthropy communications professionals
Get PDFThis practical guide equips philanthropy communicators to navigate division, misinformation and declining trust. It offers strategies to reframe messages, engage diverse audiences and foster dialogue across ideological divides. It invites communicators to critically reflect on how their own practices may contribute to polarisation and how to shift towards empathy, clarity and bridge-building.For communications teams working in complex, polarised contexts, this guide provides practical tools, reframing strategies, values-based segmentation and futures-thinking, to navigate with clarity, empathy and confidence. It encourages moving beyond persuasion toward restoration and co-creation, enabling more inclusive and emotionally intelligent engagement.Drawing on themes like truth decay, affective polarisation and values in transition, it showcases innovative practice for communicating in complex socio-political environments. It fosters shared practices and narratives that help the sector connect across divides. Through team exercises, crisis scenario planning and ethical reflection, it supports foundation capacities to respond to reputational risks, misinformation and cultural shifts, so the sector remains adaptive, principled and united.The report is a product of the Communications in Philanthropy Community of Practice, and was created to support communications professionals with the practical tools needed to shift from persuasion to restoration and co-creation
Women and Mexicoâs Green Revolution: State, Agronomic, and Popular Gender Imaginaries
Get PDFThis paper explores how Rockefeller Foundation-funded maize and sugarcane improvement programs reified the gender imaginaries of the Mexican state during the Green Revolution. Namely, this paper is concerned with the way the Mexican state perceived women's roles and how agronomists contributed to these views. In seeking to "modernize" rural Mexico, the Mexican state pushed forth gender scripts that ultimately erased the social and economic contributions of women to the Green Revolution. In abetting this vision, agronomic improvement programs added to a cultural hegemony that alienated Mexican women from the products of their labor, including agricultural goods. I peel back this trajectory by drawing from secondary literature on the Mexican state's gender imaginaries, Rockefeller Foundation records, cultural products, and oral history
Quality Improvement Project Improves Pediatric Provider Engagement with Families Around Home Visiting
Get PDFThis poster was presented at the New Mexico Pediatric Society Wylder Lecture Series (https://www.nmaap.org/wylder-lecture-series) on September 20, 2025. It summarizes findings from a quality improvement project conducted with the University of New Mexico Carrie Tingley General Pediatric clinics to increase the percentage of eligible families who receive information about home visiting from their medical provider