Seeing, Facilitating, and Assessing Systems Change

To make progress on challenging issues of social and environmental problems, strategic funders understand the need to address the systems that maintain and exacerbate them. Drawing on secondary research, advisory experience, and conversations from a series of convenings, this report illustrates how funders can design for and measure progress on systems change that is more effective, sustainable, and scalable—one that also adopts the lessons learned from COVID-19 and where philanthropy has a unique role.