Resources - Freedman Consulting, LLC

May 8, 2025

TA and Capacity Building in the Evolving Implementation Landscape: Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities for Philanthropy

Recognizing the need to understand how philanthropy can help communities in a new period of federal funding implementation in 2025 and beyond, Freedman Consulting’s What Works Plus (WW+) funder collaborative compiled…

May 1, 2025

Our Monthly US Tech Policy Roundup Series

Since March 2022, the Freedman Consulting technology policy team has published a monthly US tech policy roundup, produced in close collaboration with Tech Policy Press. Our monthly roundups outline key…

February 4, 2025

Cross-Sector Collaboration by Design – a practical guide to help establish public-private partnership models in states

Through State Partnerships Lab, an effort to provide essential tools, knowledge, and strategic support that empower states and social sector partners to foster impactful partnerships, Freedman Consulting has aggregated lessons…

January 15, 2025

Lessons from Past “Trifecta” Administrations

This presentation is a short analysis of patterns and implications of ambitious policy priorities by presidents with party control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives from Harry…

January 15, 2025

A Collection of Expert Theories About the 2024 Election Results

This resource summarizes a range of theories that have sought to explain the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. The purpose of this collection is to offer readers a way…

December 11, 2024

Landscape of Federal Climate Resilience Funding and Opportunities for Philanthropy

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation engaged Freedman Consulting, LLC, to understand how philanthropy can help advance the implementation of over $50 billion in climate resilience funding from the Bipartisan…

October 15, 2024

Voter Attitudes on Civil Society and Working Together

This brief survey on nonprofits, philanthropies, and partnerships was conducted with over 500 registered voters on October 6, 2024. The results are meant to be illustrative and provocative, meriting more…

October 10, 2024

AI for Social Impact Analysis

This landscape analysis synthesizes current and future trends and dynamics shaping the emerging AI-for-social-impact field, maps key stakeholders including philanthropies, universities, think tanks, private sector actors, and nonprofits in the field,…

August 16, 2024

Philanthropy’s 500/1500 Challenge Readout

From February to May 2024, Freedman Consulting’s What Works Plus (WW+) funder collaborative, in partnership with Invest in Our Future (IOF), led Philanthropy’s 500/1500 Challenge. The two-part Challenge was designed…

May 30, 2024

Catalyzing Implementation of Clean Energy Programs: Philanthropic Support for Communities

Freedman Consulting’s What Works Plus (WW+) funder collaborative project compiled a report highlighting ways the philanthropic sector has supported implementation of federal clean energy investments: Catalyzing Implementation of Clean Energy…

February 9, 2024

Scenario Mapping & Philanthropic Levers for Impact: Planning for 2025

In 2024, with major elections occurring in the US – the outcomes of which are impossible to predict – public interest stakeholders from across fields and sectors will face critical…

November 28, 2023

Spyware Accountability Mechanisms Framework

Commercial spyware tools, such as Pegasus, pose a significant challenge to free societies worldwide, as they threaten human rights defenders, advocates of free speech, and marginalized communities globally. On behalf of the Ford Foundation and Open…

September 18, 2023

Using AI to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Working with Henry Claypool of Claypool Consulting, the Freedman Consulting team developed a report that outlines barriers and opportunities in using AI tools to improve employment outcomes for people with…

May 16, 2023

Understanding California’s Support Ecosystem to Maximize Equal Access to Public Funding

In early 2023, our team led a mapping effort to track the emerging ecosystem of funders and intermediaries (i.e. organizations, projects, funds, initiatives, collaboratives) supporting communities to access and implement public funding…