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About our practice
We partner with social change leaders across the US, bringing equity-centered analytics and inclusive facilitation to launch new initiatives, shape strategies and investments, strengthen organizations, support program implementation, and measure impact. Learn more about what we believe and our commitment to gender equity and anti-racism.
Our Expertise
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Economic opportunity
We support our clients to strengthen economic security, advance economic mobility, and ensure high quality, rewarding work, especially for underserved populations. Our work spans education, workforce development, worker’s rights, and policy supports.
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Gender equity
We help our clients advance systems where all people can live free of gendered expectations and threats. In addition to a dedicated portfolio focused on building the power of women and girls—including gender lens investing, the care economy, ending gender-based violence, and advancing sexual and reproductive health—we apply a gender equity lens to all our work.
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Health equity
We work across health and its social determinants to close disparities in health outcomes. Our health equity work seeks to increase access and affordability, ensure products and services are designed to meet community needs, bridge siloes across health and other systems of support and care, and elevate community voice and leadership in health system decision-making.
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Community development
and leadershipWe recognize that advancing thriving communities requires integrated, coordinated investments across social and economic systems, and that communities themselves should be the ones to lead change. We help clients design and implement place-based partnerships for community development, and work to shift and build power among community leaders.
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Key Insights
Our work focuses on a range of topics, from strengthening equity in early childhood education, to shifting power in the philanthropic sector, to improving economic mobility through quality employment
Protecting Women’s Health Amid Changing Support and Shrinking Safeguards: A Call to Action for Funders
Drawing on Dalberg’s work with nonprofit, government, private sector, and philanthropic partners working to advance health and gender equity, we highlight five priority areas where philanthropic investment is especially critical in this moment.
Read moreFrom Community Engagement to Community-Led: Best Practices for Meaningful Impact
Too often, health policies and programs are developed from the top down, without meaningful incorporation of community members’ expertise. Valuing community experience as essential knowledge is key to building more equitable systems.
Read moreUnconventional Coalitions Will Shape the Future for U.S. Workers: The Role for Funders
Through our work with funders working in areas from workforce development to workers’ rights to climate, we have witnessed promising examples of how funders have supported coalitions that build new bridges across fields. Each example looks different: some coalitions span types of actors, while others span sectors. All offer lessons in the new types of coalitions that funders supporting workers need to explore today
Read moreMental Health in the Workplace: Perspectives from Sustainable Finance and Global Health Leaders
We engaged with two inspiring leaders who have witnessed the evolving role of mental health awareness in their respective fields—Erika Karp, a sustainable finance leader, and Dr. Derek Yach, a global health advocate—the authors of the report. In this article, they share insights on how we can build workplaces that prioritize mental well-being across sectors and drive positive outcomes for both employees and organizations.
Read moreInnovative Financing Models to Tackle the Affordable Housing Shortage
Dalberg worked with the Wakeland Housing and Development Corporation and Merritt Community Capital Corporation to explore innovative financing and social impact investing models aimed at scaling the development of affordable and supportive housing in California. Through this work, Dalberg identified five innovative financing models that not only address California’s severe housing shortage but also offer a scalable alternative to criminalizing homelessness.
Read moreNational Action Plan for Adult Literacy and the Launch of ALL IN
Low literacy is both a cause and an effect of intergenerational cycles of poverty and inequity in the U.S. Yet, only an estimated 10% of adults in need of literacy support are actually receiving services: the field of adult basic education is fragmented, underfunded, and under-researched. To begin to reverse this vicious cycle, the Barbara Bush Foundation commissioned Dalberg to support the development of a National Action Plan for Adult Literacy (NAP).
Read moreAn Interview with Joe Dougherty, Partner at Dalberg Advisors
Joe Dougherty has spent over 30 years at the forefront of economic development and workforce transformation—advising governments, philanthropies, and businesses in more than 30 countries. Joe explains why workforce development is no longer just a labor issue—it’s a civic imperative. He shares what’s working, what’s not, and what it will take to build more just, resilient economies for the two-thirds of adults without a college degree.
Read moreSelf-care Innovations in the Wake of Abortion Bans: A Spotlight on Aya Contigo’s U.S. launch
Dalberg supported Vitala to consider how they might bring their platform to the U.S. context. Vitala recently launched Aya Contigo in the U.S. on International Safe Abortion Day to support Latinx abortion seekers, who are disproportionately impacted by state abortion bans.
Read moreWhat we believe
- Dismantling systemic racism and white supremacy
- Advancing equity both internally and externally
- Shifting power to the communities most impacted by injustice and inequity
- Taking a gender and race explicit intersectional approach
- Analyzing root causes and designing systemic, expansive solutions
- Challenging patriarchal structures to create systems that work for people of all genders