Tufts University Grant

Organization - Tufts University
Grant Amount - $500,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - for use by its Positive Deviance Initiative to develop a plan for scaling up and making available to institutions working on the needs of poor or vulnerable populations, the "positive deviance" model, a behavior and social change approach based on the observation that uncommon practices and behaviors enable certain individuals or groups to find better solutions to prevalent problems than others who have access to the same resources


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