Why implementation quality matters more than program replication—and what prevention leaders need to know about creating lasting impact at scale. We all want to scale what works. Funders ask for it. Communities desperately need it. And if you're in prevention, you feel that pressure—when something works in one place, why wouldn't  we get it everywhere, fast? Here's the thing: in violence prevention, scaling isn't just about going bigger. When done wrong, it can actually dilute your impact,...

If you were online last week, you probably saw The New York Times op-ed asking the deeply scientific question of our age: “ Did Women Ruin the Workplace? ” “The pathology in our institutions known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized … in a very literal sense, our institutions have gone woke because there are more women in them than there used to be.” —The New York Times Op-Ed, 11/6/2025 If “ruin” looks like making the workplace safer, healthier, and more functional for...

Violence costs trillions. Prevention builds futures — and saves money doing it. Every community pays for violence. We pay for emergency care and police response. We pay for lost workdays, broken trust, physical and psychological harm, intergenerational trauma, and interrupted lives. But what if we invested that same money before  harm happens — building safety and opportunity instead of repairing damage? It turns out, prevention isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s also one of the smartest...