Knowledge Center

OMG’s Work in Community Safety and Obesity Prevention Featured in RWJF Issue Briefs

Building off 30 years of advising community change, OMG has recently deepened our understanding of the role of community safety in advancing childhood obesity prevention.  Recent work is illustrated in two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Issue Briefs.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Strengthening OMG's Consulting Competence

Racial and ethnic heritage often impede people’s pursuit of quality education, health, home, and community. Persisting negative attitudes, policies, and structures continue to create disparities that keep African Americans and Latinos at a disadvantage.
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University/Community Partnerships for Urban Revitalization

For decades, urban universities focused inward, shielding themselves from the impact of the long-term disinvestment that destroyed their neighboring communities.  In many cities today, universities have been realizing that their own success is tied to that of their neighbors, and have formed partnerships with their local communities to jointly drive urban revitalization. In this Issue Brief, we share some of the lessons we have learned about building strong university and community partnerships for urban revitalization.
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The Ins and Outs of Evaluating Technical Assistance

In large-scale, complicated, and often messy initiatives aimed at shifting large scale systems, policies, or practices, the lines between technical assistance and formative evaluation can get very murky very quickly. For the past 30 years the OMG Center has found itself squarely in the center of this murkiness. In this Issue Brief, we share some of the lessons we have learned about building strong relationships with technical assistance providers and grantees through structured and actionable feedback processes.
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Si, Se Puede (Yes, We Can)

In this Issue Brief we shine a spotlight on how fundraising approaches from the United States must be contextualized to match a country’s cultural norms.  We describe how a national nonprofit in Mexico boosted its revenues and reignited its sense of accomplishment by rethinking the concept of a “challenge grant” and changing Board members’ mindset about fundraising.
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