Below the waterline: Developing a transformational learning collaborative for foundation program officers

Abstract

Learning from fellow grantmakers is imperative in today's ever-changing world. In late 2016, four health legacy foundations partnered to launch the Health Legacy Collaborative Learning Circle. This article describes the yearlong process of creating the collaborative, and presents a new learning framework - based on the iceberg metaphor - that can be used to create learning environments that test and expand assumptions about promising approaches to common population health challenges, explore organizational best practices related to programming and operations, and understand the roles and impacts peer health legacy foundations have in their communities.