Marie Colombo

Biographic Data

ID	3793839
NAME	Marie Colombo
GIVEN NAMES	Marie
FAMILY NAME	Colombo
SIGNATURE	COLOMBO M
AFFILIATIONS	Skill (Czechia)
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	7
TOTAL CITATIONS	11
WORKS AS AUTHOR	7
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2019
H-INDEX	1

Full Issue #11.2 on Collaborative Learning
Open AccessTeresa Behrens, Pat Robinson et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2019References: 1
describe the Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative, a multiyear collaboration of 17 funders in Los Angeles County, California, that supports nonprofit organizations to collaborate and restructure in a variety of forms. As the initiative evolved, its evaluation and learning system had to have the ability to evolve with it. This article presents key design aspects of the system, describes how it evolved over time, and shares insights and learnings
Evaluating for the Bigger Picture
Open AccessThomas M Kelly, Prudence R Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2019
Foundations investing in community systems change often fail to prioritize field-level and cross-initiative evaluation questions in building initiatives. As a result, many of the documented evaluations of such investments lack translatable lessons specific and influential enough to drive related decisions and actions of others in the field. This article developed from ongoing, multiyear peer learning across several foundations that collectively c…
Changing in Place
Open AccessMarie Colombo, Bob TobinARTICLEThe Foundation Review2017
At work where Detroit’s kids live. In 2006, the Skillman Foundation committed $100 million to a decade-long investment in six neighborhoods. (See Figure 1, page 83.) Through this Good Neighborhoods Initiative, the foundation directed a majority of its grantmaking toward an intensive focus on changing the conditions where, at the time, one-third of Detroit’s children lived. The goal was to ensure that children in those places were safe, healthy, w…
Executive Summary
Open AccessLisa Simon, Amber Slichta et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2014
Improvement collaboratives are short-term learning systems that bring together teams from multiple organizations to seek improvement on a focused topic within the organizations. This article describes findings from four collaboratives conceived and funded by the Health Foundation for Western & Central New York. Findings suggest that the foundation's collaborative model -an adaptation of the intra-organizational Breakthrough Series model for use i…
From Citywide to Neighborhood-Based
Della M Hughes, Marie Colombo et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2014References: 1
This article explores the Skillman Foundation’s shift in its approach to fulfilling its mission to improve the lives of children and youth and to making grants – moving from a traditional grantmaker to a place-based investor and change-maker. · Three aspects of Skillman’s approach have directly shaped the evolution of its youth-development investments: recognizing Detroit’s economic, social, political, and environmental challenges; articulating o…
Foundation Readiness for Community Transformation
Open AccessPrudence R Brown, Marie Colombo et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2009Cited by: 10References: 3
This article describes the internal structures and processes adopted by The Skillman Foundation to support the iterative practice of “learning and doing” in the first phase of a rapidly evolving, ambitious community change enterprise in six Detroit neighborhoods
Parental Division of Labor in Adolescent Sexual Socialization
Open AccessGreer Litton Fox, Marie Colombo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Ethnography1988Cited by: 1References: 10
How parents describe their responsibility for sexual socialization of their teenage children is explored in this article. This analysis relies upon intensive interview data with black and white mothers and fathers from a larger qualitative study of intergenerational patterns of sexual communication. It was possible to identify four different patterns that couples used to divide responsibility for this aspect of parenting. Additionally, four disti…

Parental Division of Labor in Adolescent Sexual Socialization
Open AccessGreer Litton Fox, Marie Colombo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Ethnography1988Cited by: 1References: 10
How parents describe their responsibility for sexual socialization of their teenage children is explored in this article. This analysis relies upon intensive interview data with black and white mothers and fathers from a larger qualitative study of intergenerational patterns of sexual communication. It was possible to identify four different patterns that couples used to divide responsibility for this aspect of parenting. Additionally, four disti…
Foundation Readiness for Community Transformation
Open AccessPrudence R Brown, Marie Colombo et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2009Cited by: 10References: 3
This article describes the internal structures and processes adopted by The Skillman Foundation to support the iterative practice of “learning and doing” in the first phase of a rapidly evolving, ambitious community change enterprise in six Detroit neighborhoods
Executive Summary
Open AccessLisa Simon, Amber Slichta et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2014
Improvement collaboratives are short-term learning systems that bring together teams from multiple organizations to seek improvement on a focused topic within the organizations. This article describes findings from four collaboratives conceived and funded by the Health Foundation for Western & Central New York. Findings suggest that the foundation's collaborative model -an adaptation of the intra-organizational Breakthrough Series model for use i…
From Citywide to Neighborhood-Based
Della M Hughes, Marie Colombo et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2014References: 1
This article explores the Skillman Foundation’s shift in its approach to fulfilling its mission to improve the lives of children and youth and to making grants – moving from a traditional grantmaker to a place-based investor and change-maker. · Three aspects of Skillman’s approach have directly shaped the evolution of its youth-development investments: recognizing Detroit’s economic, social, political, and environmental challenges; articulating o…
Changing in Place
Open AccessMarie Colombo, Bob TobinARTICLEThe Foundation Review2017
At work where Detroit’s kids live. In 2006, the Skillman Foundation committed $100 million to a decade-long investment in six neighborhoods. (See Figure 1, page 83.) Through this Good Neighborhoods Initiative, the foundation directed a majority of its grantmaking toward an intensive focus on changing the conditions where, at the time, one-third of Detroit’s children lived. The goal was to ensure that children in those places were safe, healthy, w…
Full Issue #11.2 on Collaborative Learning
Open AccessTeresa Behrens, Pat Robinson et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2019References: 1
describe the Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative, a multiyear collaboration of 17 funders in Los Angeles County, California, that supports nonprofit organizations to collaborate and restructure in a variety of forms. As the initiative evolved, its evaluation and learning system had to have the ability to evolve with it. This article presents key design aspects of the system, describes how it evolved over time, and shares insights and learnings
Evaluating for the Bigger Picture
Open AccessThomas M Kelly, Prudence R Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Foundation Review2019
Foundations investing in community systems change often fail to prioritize field-level and cross-initiative evaluation questions in building initiatives. As a result, many of the documented evaluations of such investments lack translatable lessons specific and influential enough to drive related decisions and actions of others in the field. This article developed from ongoing, multiyear peer learning across several foundations that collectively c…