The TruePoint Center

The non-profit TruePoint Center brings to bear the expertise of the TruePoint consulting firm – integrating such areas as strategy, organization design, leadership development and change management – to advance social impact. We do this by working with leaders of charitable and philanthropic organizations, social enterprises, and multi-organization initiatives. For more than a decade the TruePoint Center has been deeply involved in promoting increased innovation in the fields of early childhood development and global health. Our work has led us to long-standing relationships with the Harvard Center on the Developing Child; Grand Challenges Canada’s Saving Brains initiative; the Palix Foundation and the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative; and a range of individual early childhood programs on the journey to sustainable impact at scale.

Scaling Whole Child Development in Adversity

For more than a decade, the TruePoint Center has been working internationally with a remarkable set of innovators as they seek to scale their early childhood programs serving families of young children facing adversity. This project represents an ongoing effort to synthesize what we are learning about scaling such programs and to gather relevant tools and resources to help innovators put that learning into practice. We invite you to join us on this learning journey.

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Collaborations and Initiatives

The TruePoint Center has been deeply involved in advancing the field of early childhood development through its work with:

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

The TruePoint Center partners with the Center on the Developing Child in its mission to drive science-based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity.

Grand Challenges Canada Saving Brains initiative

TruePoint Centre Canada provides a learning platform for innovators in early childhood development in low- and middle-income countries supported by GCC and other Saving Brains Partners.

Strategy and Business Planning

The TruePoint Center advances our mission through partnering in business planning, strategy, and evaluation. Examples include Tools of the Mind, Avance, and the Palix Foundation and aeioTU.

CLEAR Initiative

The TruePoint Center interviewed leaders of human service groups in low- and middle-income countries to document their remarkable responses to COVID-19 and to understand what underpinned their resilience and adaptive capacity.

Alberta Family Wellness Initiative

TruePoint Center Canada partners with the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative, a knowledge mobilization program to support childhood development and addiction prevention and treatment.

Advancing Research and Practice

Krapels, van der Haar, Slemming, de Laat, Radner, Sanou Simeon, Holding, P. “The Aspirations of Measurement for Change.” Frontiers in Public Health Issue 8 (2020).
Cavallera, Tomlinson, Radner et al., “Scaling Early Childhood Development: what are the barrier and enablers?” BMJ Archives of Disease in Early Childhood (2019).
Radner et al., “Practical Considerations for Transitioning Early Childhood Development Interventions to Scale: An Analysis of the Saving Brains Portfolio.” Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences (2018).
Shonkoff, Radner, and Foote, “Expanding the Evidence Base to Drive More Productive Early Childhood Investment.” The Lancet, October 4, 2016.
Patton, Foote and Radner, “A Foundation’s Theory of Philanthropy: What it Is, What it Provides, How to Do It.” The Foundation Review Vol. 7, Issue 4 (December 2015).
Gagnon, Foote, Quinn Patton, Radner, Patrizi, Bare, Sherwood and Behrens, “Reflections and Commentary on a Theory of Philanthropy.” The Foundation Review Vol. 7, Issue 4 (December 2015)
Radner, Foote, and Patton, “The Theory of Philanthropy of the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative.” The Foundation Review, Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2015).
Chapter in Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice (Guilford Press, 2015), “Science and How We Care for Needy Young Children: The Frontiers of Innovation Initiative."
Radner, Silver, and Foote, “Lab and Village: Reimagining how science can serve children.” UNICEF: State of the World’s Children 2015 (2015).

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