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We are always learning through our work, and we seek to accelerate change more broadly by sharing our frameworks, approaches, and lessons learned.

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When the Best Offense is a Good Defense


2019

We talked to advocates and funders to better understand how they think about advocacy on the defense. We wanted to understand whether it was a distinct category of work and the degree to which there were useful frameworks and tools for evaluating it.

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Briefs / Reports
2026

Fund for Shared Insight was a 12 year, $78 million initiative that supported nonprofits in gathering feedback from clients and funders in listening, responding, and shifting power. ORS Impact evaluated a decade of this work, and in this report we share Shared Insight’s core accomplishments, contributions to the philanthropic and social sectors, and lessons learned.

See the full report here.

 

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Briefs / Reports
2026

Fund for Shared Insight was a 12 year, $78 million initiative that supported nonprofits in gathering feedback from clients and funders in listening, responding, and shifting power. ORS Impact evaluated a decade of this work, and in this report we share Shared Insight’s core accomplishments, contributions to the philanthropic and social sectors, and lessons learned.

See the Executive Summary here.

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Frameworks
2025

In continuing our work to support Public Welfare Foundation’s exploration of criminal justice transformation advocacy coalitions, ORS Impact has conducted this literature scan to provide more context and targeted information about the conditions that enable coalition success. Through this process, we have identified 10 conditions that contribute to coalition success: shared vision and goals, coalition culture, resource availability, staff roles and leadership, governance structures, strategy and theory of change, diversity of membership, collaboration and partnership, community engagement, and power sharing.

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Frameworks
2025

To help Public Welfare Foundation explore advocacy coalitions that transform criminal justice, ORS Impact has conducted this literature scan to better understand what factors play into coalition formation and how they might be leveraged in pursuit of stronger, effective coalitions. We have identified six variables that contribute to the formation of coalitions: external shocks and catalysts, resource availability, existing networks and social ties, key actors, ideological alignment and belief systems, and political will and systems.

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