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View article: Regional Inclusive Growth Through Systems Philanthropy in Essex County, Massachusetts
Regional Inclusive Growth Through Systems Philanthropy in Essex County, Massachusetts Open
In 2016, the Essex County Community Foundation forged a cross-sector coalition of business, community, and civic leaders to identify the Massachusetts region’s greatest challenges and to develop a strategy for action. Income inequality was…
View article: By Us and For Us: A Story of Early Childhood Development Systems Change and Results in a Rural Context
By Us and For Us: A Story of Early Childhood Development Systems Change and Results in a Rural Context Open
Since 2007, the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund — a donor-advised fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation — has invested in early childhood development in Coös County — New Hampshire's largest and most rural and economically disadva…
View article: Executive Summaries
Executive Summaries Open
The Denver Foundation launched the Basic Human Needs Navigator Learning Community in February 2014 to help navigators working with local organizations and community members improve their practice and identify similarities and differences i…
View article: Back Matter
Back Matter Open
The Denver Foundation launched the Basic Human Needs Navigator Learning Community in February 2014 to help navigators working with local organizations and community members improve their practice and identify similarities and differences i…
View article: Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation
Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation Open
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill sign…
View article: Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?
Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population? Open
A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the offline population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in web mode, (2) offliners in face-to-face mo…
View article: Information, perceived education level, and attitudes toward refugees: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment
Information, perceived education level, and attitudes toward refugees: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment Open
From 2014 onwards, Europe has witnessed an unprecedented influx of refugees. We conducted a survey experiment with almost 5,000 university students in Germany in which we randomly shifted the perception of refugees’ education level through…