Douglas Easterling
Biographic Data
| ID | 4169953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Easterling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Easterling |
| SIGNATURE | EASTERLING D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9457-5160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Emergent Models of Place-Based Philanthropy
Traditional approaches to place-based philanthropy, including comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs), are characterized by four design features: 1) a centralized stakeholder group that serves as the primary nexus for the foundation’s engagement; 2) an extensive planning process on the front end; 3) the planning group’s initial strategy serves as the basis for the foundation’s investments throughout the initiative; and 4) foundation staff play…
Enticing Institutions to Become More Inclusive and Responsive
Equity-focused foundations have generally sought to change institutions, systems, and structures through advocacy, policy change, and community organizing — either on their own or by supporting activist organizations. This article examines an alternative philanthropic strategy: directly engaging and supporting the institutions that need to become more diverse, inclusive, and responsive to the communities they should be serving. The Colorado Healt…
The Academic Learning Health System
The learning health system (LHS) has emerged over the past 15 years as a concept for improving health care delivery. Core aspects of the LHS concept include: promoting improved patient care through organizational learning, innovation, and continuous quality improvement; identifying, critically assessing, and translating knowledge and evidence into improved practices; building new knowledge and evidence around how to improve health care and health…
Place-Based Philanthropy With an Adaptive Lens
With place-based philanthropy, a foundation provides extensive, long-term support for a comprehensive mix of programs within specific communities, with the expectation that this will produce benefits at a communitywide level. One of the key questions in designing a place-based initiative is how much the foundation will control local decision-making. In some initiatives, the foundation dictates the issues that community groups must address and/or …
The Yin and Yang of Equity-Centered Philanthropy
Foundations face two competing imperatives when they commit to advancing equity. On the one hand, they are counseled to support and follow the lead of community-based groups that are on the front lines of social change. On the other hand, they are also being challenged to use their power and influence to act boldly to change inequitable structures, policies, and institutions. These two orientations, yin and yang, can take a foundation in differen…
How Can Foundations Promote Impactful Collaboration
Funders are increasingly looking to interagency and cross-sector collaboration as a strategy to solve complex, large-scale issues, but many collaborative groups fail to generate an impact with their work. This is due in part to funders’ own practices, such as pre-specifying the problem to be solved or limiting their grantees’ ability to adjust their strategy. The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts has been intentional about facilitating t…
The Cultivation Approach to Place-Based Philanthropy
Cultivation is a decentralized approach to place-based philanthropy where the foundation seeks to activate local stakeholders and assist them in translating their ideas into action. Rather than convening a strategic planning process, cultivation presumes that the seeds of high-payoff solutions are already circulating somewhere in the community. The foundation’s role is to support local stakeholders in developing and implementing their own ideas i…
Becoming Strategic
While a number of observers have offered advice to foundations on how to be more effective with the implementation, evaluation, and adaptation of their strategies, there is little guidance on how foundations should go about designing their strategies. This study fills that gap by analyzing the strategic thinking of health conversion foundations when they determined how they would address various social determinants of health. Based on interviews …
Appendix - Program Officer Practice Profile - Using Implementation Science to Translate Foundation Strategy
Healthy Places North Carolina (HPNC) distinguishes itself from other foundation-sponsored community change initiatives by promoting the crucial role that program officers play in cultivating positive community change.Program officers meet individuals and organizations from throughout the community, encourage them to pursue new projects, introduce new ideas, promote grant opportunities, and connect actors who are not currently working together.To …
Full Issue
In the Bay-area, a place on the cutting edge of family giving, some of the country's most experienced and entrepreneurial donors will join with national thought leaders for a deep-dive dialogue about a perennial pushpull in family philanthropy
Getting Real With Strategy
Foundations are increasingly coming to appreciate the importance of strategy. But simply having a strategy – even an explicit strategy – does not guarantee that a foundation will actually achieve its goals. To implement a strategy effectively, a foundation needs to operationalize it in the form of specific functions that staff will carry out and needs to create an organizational infrastructure that supports the strategy. The field of implementati…
Using Implementation Science to Translate Foundation Strategy
New strategies sometimes require foundations to shift their staffing, organizational structures, administrative processes, and, possibly, their culture. The field of implementation science offers guidance to foundations as they effectively implement strategies that depart from prevailing practice. This article focuses on two specific tools from implementation science: the practice profile and the Implementation Drivers Assessment. The practice pr…
Reconciling Community-Based Versus Evidence-Based Philanthropy
One of the dominant tensions in philanthropy involves the question of whether foundations should focus their grantmaking on projects that come from the community versus projects that have a base of scientific evidence. How a foundation answers this question leads to different strategic orientations. This article describes how this tension was expressed and resolved during The Colorado Trust’s early years of initiative-based grantmaking. The commu…
Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities
Objectives. To examine the leadership attributes and collaborative connections of local actors from the health sector and those outside the health sector in a major place-based health initiative. Methods. We used survey data from 340 individuals in 4 Healthy Places North Carolina counties from 2014 to assess the leadership attributes (awareness, attitudes, and capacity) and network connections of local actors by their organizational sector. Resul…
Executive Summaries
Place-based funders seek to improve specific neighborhoods, deploying a variety of resources such as charitable support, technical assistance, social and political connections, and direct services. This article tells the story of a placed-based initiative to develop well-being and wealth in the historically underserved Diamond Neighborhood in San Diego. It describes the transformation of a space into place through the development of Market Creek.…
Achieving Communitywide Impact by Changing the Local Culture
With place-based initiatives foundations generally seek to engage a broad set of local stakeholders in developing high-payoff strategies and to build their capacity. However more fundamental changes may be needed to bring about the ambitious impacts that foundations have in mind. This article explores the idea of changing community culture as a means of achieving large-scale impacts. In trying to shift a community’s culture, a foundation is inher…
Getting to Collective Impact
Foundations have a long tradition of convening and funding collaborative groups with the hope that this will lead to large-scale impact. · Although funder-driven collaboration sometimes leads to breakthrough solutions, foundations have also pushed the participating organizations into artificial, awkward, and unsustainable efforts. · This article argues that funders should support naturally emerging networks and should tailor their support to matc…
Achieving Synergy With Collaborative Problem Solving
Collaborative problem solving has a long and important tradition in philanthropy. While there are notable success stories, it is clear that large-scale impact does not occur by simply bringing various stakeholders together around a common agenda and then offering them funding for planning and implementation
Factors Associated with Collaboration Among Agencies Serving Children with Complex Chronic Conditions
Building the Capacity of Networks to Achieve Systems Change
Networks have historically played an essential role in promoting progress in areas such as social justice, political reform, environmental protection, and public health
SP6-46 Risk perception of smoking and quitting in Hungary
Introduction Despite improvements in tobacco control smoking is the leading, preventable risk factor for premature death and disability in Hungary. The purpose of this study was to identify the determinants of smoking and quitting in Hungary. Methods The first wave of a quantitative longitudinal study was delivered in 2009. A sample of individuals (n=2250) aged 16–70 years was selected from the seven geographical regions of Hungary. The survey wa…
P1-343 Gender differences in home smoking restrictions in Hungary
This publication was made possible by Grant Number 1 R01 TW007927-01 from the Fogarty International Center, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the NIH
Promoting Community Leadership Among Community Foundations
Faced with increased competition for donors and calls for measurable impact, many community foundations (CFs) are adopting a more proactive, strategic approach to philanthropy – one that has come to be known as "community leadership
Speak Your Peace
Speak Your Peace: The Civility Project” (SYP) was developed by The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation and the Millennium Group to improve the civility of public discourse, under the premise that this would strengthen community decision making, expand civic engagement, and increase residents’ interest in elected office
The Colorado Trust's Healthy Communities Initiative
This article summarizes how 29 diverse communities throughout Colorado implemented the Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative (CHCI), which was conceived and funded by The Colorado Trust to engage community residents in the development of locally relevant strategies to improve community health
Fair Rules for Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository
Geologic repositories are designed to resolve the ever-growing problem of high-level nuclear waste, but these facilities invite intense local opposition due to the perceived severity of the risks and the possibility of stigma effects. This analysis examines whether the perceived fairness of the siting process affects local residents' support for hosting a repository. In particular, a survey of 1001 Nevada residents is used to test the hypothesis …
The Colorado Trust's Healthy Communities Initiative
This article summarizes how 29 diverse communities throughout Colorado implemented the Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative (CHCI), which was conceived and funded by The Colorado Trust to engage community residents in the development of locally relevant strategies to improve community health
Promoting Community Leadership Among Community Foundations
Faced with increased competition for donors and calls for measurable impact, many community foundations (CFs) are adopting a more proactive, strategic approach to philanthropy – one that has come to be known as "community leadership
Getting to Collective Impact
Foundations have a long tradition of convening and funding collaborative groups with the hope that this will lead to large-scale impact. · Although funder-driven collaboration sometimes leads to breakthrough solutions, foundations have also pushed the participating organizations into artificial, awkward, and unsustainable efforts. · This article argues that funders should support naturally emerging networks and should tailor their support to matc…
Using Implementation Science to Translate Foundation Strategy
New strategies sometimes require foundations to shift their staffing, organizational structures, administrative processes, and, possibly, their culture. The field of implementation science offers guidance to foundations as they effectively implement strategies that depart from prevailing practice. This article focuses on two specific tools from implementation science: the practice profile and the Implementation Drivers Assessment. The practice pr…
Getting Real With Strategy
Foundations are increasingly coming to appreciate the importance of strategy. But simply having a strategy – even an explicit strategy – does not guarantee that a foundation will actually achieve its goals. To implement a strategy effectively, a foundation needs to operationalize it in the form of specific functions that staff will carry out and needs to create an organizational infrastructure that supports the strategy. The field of implementati…
Speak Your Peace
Speak Your Peace: The Civility Project” (SYP) was developed by The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation and the Millennium Group to improve the civility of public discourse, under the premise that this would strengthen community decision making, expand civic engagement, and increase residents’ interest in elected office
Achieving Communitywide Impact by Changing the Local Culture
With place-based initiatives foundations generally seek to engage a broad set of local stakeholders in developing high-payoff strategies and to build their capacity. However more fundamental changes may be needed to bring about the ambitious impacts that foundations have in mind. This article explores the idea of changing community culture as a means of achieving large-scale impacts. In trying to shift a community’s culture, a foundation is inher…
Achieving Synergy With Collaborative Problem Solving
Collaborative problem solving has a long and important tradition in philanthropy. While there are notable success stories, it is clear that large-scale impact does not occur by simply bringing various stakeholders together around a common agenda and then offering them funding for planning and implementation
Building the Capacity of Networks to Achieve Systems Change
Networks have historically played an essential role in promoting progress in areas such as social justice, political reform, environmental protection, and public health
The Fail-Safe Society
How Can Foundations Promote Impactful Collaboration
Funders are increasingly looking to interagency and cross-sector collaboration as a strategy to solve complex, large-scale issues, but many collaborative groups fail to generate an impact with their work. This is due in part to funders’ own practices, such as pre-specifying the problem to be solved or limiting their grantees’ ability to adjust their strategy. The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts has been intentional about facilitating t…
The Cultivation Approach to Place-Based Philanthropy
Cultivation is a decentralized approach to place-based philanthropy where the foundation seeks to activate local stakeholders and assist them in translating their ideas into action. Rather than convening a strategic planning process, cultivation presumes that the seeds of high-payoff solutions are already circulating somewhere in the community. The foundation’s role is to support local stakeholders in developing and implementing their own ideas i…
Enticing Institutions to Become More Inclusive and Responsive
Equity-focused foundations have generally sought to change institutions, systems, and structures through advocacy, policy change, and community organizing — either on their own or by supporting activist organizations. This article examines an alternative philanthropic strategy: directly engaging and supporting the institutions that need to become more diverse, inclusive, and responsive to the communities they should be serving. The Colorado Healt…
Place-Based Philanthropy With an Adaptive Lens
With place-based philanthropy, a foundation provides extensive, long-term support for a comprehensive mix of programs within specific communities, with the expectation that this will produce benefits at a communitywide level. One of the key questions in designing a place-based initiative is how much the foundation will control local decision-making. In some initiatives, the foundation dictates the issues that community groups must address and/or …
Reconciling Community-Based Versus Evidence-Based Philanthropy
One of the dominant tensions in philanthropy involves the question of whether foundations should focus their grantmaking on projects that come from the community versus projects that have a base of scientific evidence. How a foundation answers this question leads to different strategic orientations. This article describes how this tension was expressed and resolved during The Colorado Trust’s early years of initiative-based grantmaking. The commu…
Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities
Objectives. To examine the leadership attributes and collaborative connections of local actors from the health sector and those outside the health sector in a major place-based health initiative. Methods. We used survey data from 340 individuals in 4 Healthy Places North Carolina counties from 2014 to assess the leadership attributes (awareness, attitudes, and capacity) and network connections of local actors by their organizational sector. Resul…
Fair Rules for Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository
Geologic repositories are designed to resolve the ever-growing problem of high-level nuclear waste, but these facilities invite intense local opposition due to the perceived severity of the risks and the possibility of stigma effects. This analysis examines whether the perceived fairness of the siting process affects local residents' support for hosting a repository. In particular, a survey of 1001 Nevada residents is used to test the hypothesis …
The Fail-Safe Society
Conservation of Energy, Uncertainty Reduction, and Swift Utilization of Medical Care Among the Elderly
This study examined age differences in the timing of the decision to seek medical care. The data were obtained from a longitudinal study of 366 community dwelling adults aged 45 to 93 years. Subjects were paired for age, gender, and health status, and both members of a pair were interviewed when either one initiated a medical visit for a new problem. This allowed the authors to examine delay in care-seeking for individuals with new symptoms who d…
The role of compensation in siting hazardous facilities
Empirical evidence indicates that compensation can prove effective in gaining public acceptance for siting facilities on the benign end of the spectrum (e.g., landfills, prisons), but is subject to serious limitations when it comes to facilities that the public regards as particularly risky or of questionable legitimacy such as nuclear waste repositories. These facilities require creative mitigation measures such as independent inspections of the…
The Colorado Trust's Healthy Communities Initiative
This article summarizes how 29 diverse communities throughout Colorado implemented the Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative (CHCI), which was conceived and funded by The Colorado Trust to engage community residents in the development of locally relevant strategies to improve community health
Speak Your Peace
Speak Your Peace: The Civility Project” (SYP) was developed by The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation and the Millennium Group to improve the civility of public discourse, under the premise that this would strengthen community decision making, expand civic engagement, and increase residents’ interest in elected office
SP6-46 Risk perception of smoking and quitting in Hungary
Introduction Despite improvements in tobacco control smoking is the leading, preventable risk factor for premature death and disability in Hungary. The purpose of this study was to identify the determinants of smoking and quitting in Hungary. Methods The first wave of a quantitative longitudinal study was delivered in 2009. A sample of individuals (n=2250) aged 16–70 years was selected from the seven geographical regions of Hungary. The survey wa…
P1-343 Gender differences in home smoking restrictions in Hungary
This publication was made possible by Grant Number 1 R01 TW007927-01 from the Fogarty International Center, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the NIH
Promoting Community Leadership Among Community Foundations
Faced with increased competition for donors and calls for measurable impact, many community foundations (CFs) are adopting a more proactive, strategic approach to philanthropy – one that has come to be known as "community leadership
Factors Associated with Collaboration Among Agencies Serving Children with Complex Chronic Conditions
Building the Capacity of Networks to Achieve Systems Change
Networks have historically played an essential role in promoting progress in areas such as social justice, political reform, environmental protection, and public health
Getting to Collective Impact
Foundations have a long tradition of convening and funding collaborative groups with the hope that this will lead to large-scale impact. · Although funder-driven collaboration sometimes leads to breakthrough solutions, foundations have also pushed the participating organizations into artificial, awkward, and unsustainable efforts. · This article argues that funders should support naturally emerging networks and should tailor their support to matc…
Achieving Synergy With Collaborative Problem Solving
Collaborative problem solving has a long and important tradition in philanthropy. While there are notable success stories, it is clear that large-scale impact does not occur by simply bringing various stakeholders together around a common agenda and then offering them funding for planning and implementation
Executive Summaries
Place-based funders seek to improve specific neighborhoods, deploying a variety of resources such as charitable support, technical assistance, social and political connections, and direct services. This article tells the story of a placed-based initiative to develop well-being and wealth in the historically underserved Diamond Neighborhood in San Diego. It describes the transformation of a space into place through the development of Market Creek.…
Achieving Communitywide Impact by Changing the Local Culture
With place-based initiatives foundations generally seek to engage a broad set of local stakeholders in developing high-payoff strategies and to build their capacity. However more fundamental changes may be needed to bring about the ambitious impacts that foundations have in mind. This article explores the idea of changing community culture as a means of achieving large-scale impacts. In trying to shift a community’s culture, a foundation is inher…
Appendix - Program Officer Practice Profile - Using Implementation Science to Translate Foundation Strategy
Healthy Places North Carolina (HPNC) distinguishes itself from other foundation-sponsored community change initiatives by promoting the crucial role that program officers play in cultivating positive community change.Program officers meet individuals and organizations from throughout the community, encourage them to pursue new projects, introduce new ideas, promote grant opportunities, and connect actors who are not currently working together.To …
Full Issue
In the Bay-area, a place on the cutting edge of family giving, some of the country's most experienced and entrepreneurial donors will join with national thought leaders for a deep-dive dialogue about a perennial pushpull in family philanthropy
Getting Real With Strategy
Foundations are increasingly coming to appreciate the importance of strategy. But simply having a strategy – even an explicit strategy – does not guarantee that a foundation will actually achieve its goals. To implement a strategy effectively, a foundation needs to operationalize it in the form of specific functions that staff will carry out and needs to create an organizational infrastructure that supports the strategy. The field of implementati…
Using Implementation Science to Translate Foundation Strategy
New strategies sometimes require foundations to shift their staffing, organizational structures, administrative processes, and, possibly, their culture. The field of implementation science offers guidance to foundations as they effectively implement strategies that depart from prevailing practice. This article focuses on two specific tools from implementation science: the practice profile and the Implementation Drivers Assessment. The practice pr…
Reconciling Community-Based Versus Evidence-Based Philanthropy
One of the dominant tensions in philanthropy involves the question of whether foundations should focus their grantmaking on projects that come from the community versus projects that have a base of scientific evidence. How a foundation answers this question leads to different strategic orientations. This article describes how this tension was expressed and resolved during The Colorado Trust’s early years of initiative-based grantmaking. The commu…
Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities
Objectives. To examine the leadership attributes and collaborative connections of local actors from the health sector and those outside the health sector in a major place-based health initiative. Methods. We used survey data from 340 individuals in 4 Healthy Places North Carolina counties from 2014 to assess the leadership attributes (awareness, attitudes, and capacity) and network connections of local actors by their organizational sector. Resul…
Becoming Strategic
While a number of observers have offered advice to foundations on how to be more effective with the implementation, evaluation, and adaptation of their strategies, there is little guidance on how foundations should go about designing their strategies. This study fills that gap by analyzing the strategic thinking of health conversion foundations when they determined how they would address various social determinants of health. Based on interviews …
How Can Foundations Promote Impactful Collaboration
Funders are increasingly looking to interagency and cross-sector collaboration as a strategy to solve complex, large-scale issues, but many collaborative groups fail to generate an impact with their work. This is due in part to funders’ own practices, such as pre-specifying the problem to be solved or limiting their grantees’ ability to adjust their strategy. The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts has been intentional about facilitating t…
The Cultivation Approach to Place-Based Philanthropy
Cultivation is a decentralized approach to place-based philanthropy where the foundation seeks to activate local stakeholders and assist them in translating their ideas into action. Rather than convening a strategic planning process, cultivation presumes that the seeds of high-payoff solutions are already circulating somewhere in the community. The foundation’s role is to support local stakeholders in developing and implementing their own ideas i…
The Yin and Yang of Equity-Centered Philanthropy
Foundations face two competing imperatives when they commit to advancing equity. On the one hand, they are counseled to support and follow the lead of community-based groups that are on the front lines of social change. On the other hand, they are also being challenged to use their power and influence to act boldly to change inequitable structures, policies, and institutions. These two orientations, yin and yang, can take a foundation in differen…
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