Julia Coffman, M.S.

Editor-in-Chief, The Foundation Review

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Launched at the Johnson Center in 2009, The Foundation Review is the nation’s first peer-reviewed journal of philanthropy, written by and for foundation staff, boards, and those who work with them.

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Julia Coffman, M.S., is the editor-in-chief of The Foundation Review, the Johnson Center’s peer-reviewed journal on philanthropy. She also serves as a senior advisor at the Center for Evaluation Innovation.

Julia has spent the last 30 years working with foundations on their approaches to strategy, evaluation, and learning, leading dozens of evaluations designed to support and help advance social change. She has expertise in evaluating complex systems change and has been a leader in building the policy and advocacy evaluation field, supporting field collaboration, developing new methods and approaches, and supporting other evaluators in sharing their unique contributions.

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