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From Breadth to Depth: The Blank Family Foundation Tackles Mental Health
There has been a blizzard of coverage of the U.S. mental health crisis over the last several years, but the precise causes — and effective solutions — to our collective deterioration are harder to identify. That’s why, when the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation decided to address mental health and wellbeing as a core funding area, it started with a wide-lens approach. The team wanted to understand the contours of the issue they were taking on, and began two years ago with a learning grants approach: working to understand the issues while supporting organizations on the front lines.
“Many times, foundations, when they’re developing a strategy, stop the grantmaking and take a period for that strategy development,” said Beth Brown, managing director for mental health and wellbeing at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation (AMBFF). “But the way we&#;ve approached mental health over the past couple of years, we&#;ve been making a series of learning grants. So rather than developing a strategy and then investing, we&#;ve been investing in learning.”
The urgency of the crisis drove the foundation’s approach. “It was an area the board and the chairman realized we needed to start to invest in pretty quickly, and
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Tara began working in the development field in at Simmons College in Boston, where she was hired as a major gifts and development research assistant and ultimately went on to serve as Assistant Director of Prospect Research. Later in her career, she worked as a Senior Research Analyst at MIT, as Associate Director of Prospect Management & Research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and as Director of Development Research at Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP).
Tara originally joined The Helen Brown Group in as a Research Associate and ShareTraining Coordinator. She rejoined the Group as a Senior Researcher in , and has since gone on to serve as Assistant Director of Research and Consulting; Assistant Director & Data Insight Lead; Associate Director of Research and Consulting; and Director, Research & Consulting, her current role.
She has also been an active volunteer with NEDRA for many years. From , she served on NEDRA&#;s Board of Directors and was Vice President, Secretary, Editor of NEDRA News, and Chair of the Website & Technology and Volunteer Committees. Since , Tara has been a member of NEDRA’s Research Basics Bootcamp faculty, co-teaching a tri-annual course on the essentials of prospect research. In the past, she was also a volunteer with
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