The Full Frame Initiative (FFI) is committed to making it more likely that people who are currently failed by social service systems have a chance to participate in interventions that work.

What should these interventions be?

The answers are out there. Studying the innovative, effective outliers shows that specific strategies really can help the most marginalized.  

The first challenge is to determine how we can best learn from and support the interventions that have already "got it"—because they contain urgently needed lessons that meaningfully address some of society's most intractable problems. The second challenge is to change, when needed, what policy makers, funders, and nonprofits value, so that the more effective interventions become the rule, not the exception.  

FFI addresses these challenges directly in two linked strategies:

1. Identifying extraordinary interventions that generate better results for people left behind by mainstream resources, and building a network for collaboration, peer support and learning, and connecting with people in positions of influence to raise awareness of what works.

2. Eliminating barriers that currently leave these interventions overlooked, by demonstrating the value of essential elements (such as the set of strategies we call the Full Frame Approach), addressing evaluation issues, and opening new funding channels.
   

Our work focuses on issues that are best addressed by a network rather than by individual organizations, and that can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the field as a whole—evaluation, for example. We thus get the benefits of scale with few of the costs.