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Frontiers of Innovation

Frontiers of Innovation logoFrontiers of Innovation (FOI) was the Center’s R&D Platform, designed to accelerate the development and adoption of science-based innovations that achieve breakthrough impact at scale. Launched in 2011 and sunset in 2023, FOI employed a structured but flexible framework [1] that facilitated idea generation, development, implementation, testing, evaluation, and rapid-cycle iteration. This process was grounded in science and supported within a growing community of change agents who were committed to shared learning, cumulative knowledge, and transformative child outcomes at the population level.