The CLEAR program is a featured initiative launched by The TruePoint Center to collaborate with local leaders to strengthen COVID-19 responses in low-income and low-resource settings. It is in those settings, among the most vulnerable populations, that COVID-19 will have the greatest impact.
Blunting that impact and building back better will require local mobilization through purpose-driven leaders who are deeply connected with their communities. CLEAR helps those leaders and their communities respond to the pandemic in a way that saves lives and sustains livelihoods.
“The CLEAR initiative will enable local leaders to accelerate and expand their impact, saving lives and sustaining individual and community health and development.”
CLEAR is pleased to acknowledge the support of The International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health, Grand Challenges Canada (funded in turn by the Government of Canada), Porticus, Humanitarian Education Accelerator, along with our Board of Advisors
CASE LIBRARY
CLEAR has developed a suite of cases of remarkable on-the-ground responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The full case library is available here.
SYNTHESIS: RESILIENCE AND Adaptive capacities
Drawing on what leaders told us during the case study interviews, we developed a synthesis of strategies for organizational resilience in the face of COVID and other emergencies. The document is available here.
The Resilience Cycle
Resilience and AdaptaTion: Self-Diagnostic Tool
We developed a self-diagnostic tool for organizations to think through their own agenda as it pertains to resilience adaptation here.
CLEAR Cases
CLEAR Advisors
Featured
CLEAR Leaders
Nathaniel Foote, J.D., M.B.A., is a founding Board member of the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, Senior Fellow at the Center on the Developing Child, at Harvard University, and President of the TruePoint Center. A co-author of the book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, he has helped clients in a wide range of settings to build more effective institutions that achieve objectives for scaling, increased innovation, and improved performance for all stakeholders. Since 2012, Nathaniel has worked closely with Grand Challenges Canada’s Saving Brains program to support its portfolio of innovators and create a leader-centered learning community. Nathaniel is Board Chair for Tools of the Mind and a member of the Board of CitiesRISE. Nathaniel was with McKinsey & Company for 19 years, where he was a partner and leader of McKinsey’s Organization Design practice and had global responsibility for the effectiveness of McKinsey’s communities of practice. He received an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude. He attended the University of Cambridge as the Fiske Scholar, after receiving his B.A. degree from Harvard.
James M. Radner, M.Phil., is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Senior Fellow at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, and Research Director of the TruePoint Center. For the past decade, Jamie has worked closely with the Center on the Developing Child and Grand Challenges Canada to support innovation and learning in programming and policy for early childhood development in contexts of poverty and social exclusion. His teaching and action research concern issues of domestic and international social and economic development, and uses quantitative and qualitative tools to improve the effectiveness of social institutions. He has wide experience in civil society and development, including positions at community health, education, and economic development organizations, as well as program and management work at Amnesty International U.S.A., and consulting assignments for governments, aid institutions, businesses, and civic organizations. Previously, Jamie was a senior advisor at Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC. He earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and completed the P.M.D. at Harvard Business School.
Dr. Wood is a Professor with tenure and past Chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the Quillen College of Medicine at ETSU. He has held tenured faculty positions at UCLA and the University of Florida and was a RAND fellow from 1986-2006. His clinical care, research, and advocacy efforts have focused on access to and quality of care for disadvantaged and medically complex children, youth, and young adults. He has developed programs and conducted evaluation-oriented research for immigrant children and families, children who are homeless or in foster care, children with intellectual disabilities, and youth and young adults with chronic health conditions. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He is working with Universities and NGOs in Ecuador to provide primary care, basic water and sanitation, and education to families in marginalized communities.
More About CLEAR
About the CLEAR Initiative
CLEAR will catalyze global-scale, leader-centered learning collaboratives in key domains. In each domain, beginning with Maternal-Child Health & Development, CLEAR will:
Mobilize a nucleus of pioneer leaders by applying proven approaches to empowering cohorts of outstanding leaders to achieve their full potential
Build around that nucleus a learning collaborative by leveraging and strengthening existing network organizations
Reinforce the value of the learning collaborative through partnerships providing access to expertise, resources, policy influence, and communications vehicles
Transition ‘ownership’ of each learning collaborative to a long-term institutional partner
Clear Project Approach
CLEAR’s Listen Project
As the first stage of the CLEAR initiative, the Listen Project hopes to spotlight the extraordinary stories of local leaders who respond to the effects of COVID-19 in low-income and low-resource settings.
Local leaders’ stories are powerful learning tools that show us how adaptations and innovations can sustain and extend service offerings resulting in continued impact amidst a crisis.
The CLEAR team is conducting interviews with local leaders to document and share their experiences. The team will compile the stories, generate case examples of effective responses, and will identify key takeaways.