Capacity-Building
What starts here changes the world. For good.
The Impact Factory discovers and disseminates evidence-based best practices in social innovation and entrepreneurship. Leveraging the expertise of our top-tier research university, we share cutting-edge data in peer-reviewed literature and lay media publications, while leading tactical workshops, advising services and relevant community events, including expert panels, for social innovators broadly.
Social Impact Workshops
Social Impact Workshops equip professionals and community members with the knowledge, skills and technical assistance they need to implement programs for public good. For example, one workshop trained African leaders of the Mandela Washington Fellowship on principles of social entrepreneurship in under-resourced settings.
Social Impact Advisors
Social Impact Advisors offer one-on-one support sessions to entrepreneurs, researchers, clinicians, executives, philanthropists, community leaders, faculty, staff and alumni aiming to make positive impact at scale.
Recent publications by The Impact Factory's team and partners

Children's Savings Programs as Public-Private Partnerships
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
November 2022

Mitigating Food Insecurity During COVID-19
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
November 2022

Opinion: The Kids Are Not Alright - Congress must extend the Child Tax Credit and adequately fund childcare
Medpage Today
April 17, 2022

Revising the Internal Revenue Service’s Hospital Community Benefit Reporting Standard
Health Affairs
April 15, 2022

Pediatrician-Prescribed Grocery Delivery for Families Facing Food Insecurity
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
February 2022

Healthy Communities are Resilient Communities, Resilient Communities are Healthy Communities
Resiliency in the Age of COVID-19: A Policy Toolkit, LBJ School
Dec. 8, 2020

COVID and Corrections: A Profile of COVID Deaths in Custody in Texas
LBJ School of Public Affairs
Nov. 9, 2020

Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services
The Lancet
Aug. 27, 2020

Women's experience of the effect of financial strain on parenting and mental health
Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing
Aug. 18, 2020

Bringing Main Street Relief to America
Medium
Aug. 12, 2020

Opinion: Senate must pass the Heroes Act now to help struggling Americans
The Hill
July 27, 2020

Focusing on vulnerable populations during COVID19
Academic Medicine
July 2, 2020

Best practices for a COVID-19 preparedness plan for health systems
NEJM Catalyst
April 30, 2020

Health sector spending & spending on HIV/AIDS, TB & malaria, and development assistance for health
The Lancet
April 23, 2020

Commentary: Don't forget to feed our children during pandemic closures
Austin American-Statesman
March 18, 2020

Take action, not sides, on gun violence
The Hill
Jan. 2, 2020

Medical-financial partnerships: Cross-sector collaborations between health & financial systems
Academic Pediatrics
Oct. 13, 2019

Commentary: Doctors order zero tolerance for policies that harm kids
Austin American-Statesman
June 29, 2018

Free tax services in pediatric clinics: feasibility and acceptability
Pediatrics
June 1, 2018

Unhealthy tax changes for families in need
Real Clear Policy
May 3, 2018

Opinion: Putting a price tag on childhood hunger
The Hill
April 10, 2018

Commentary: Why auditing the working poor is bad news for Texas youths
Austin American-Statesman
Sept. 29, 2017

Redesigning Health Care Practices to Address Childhood Poverty
Academic Pediatrics
April 1, 2016

Determinants of Health and Pediatric Primary Care Practices
Pediatrics
March 1, 2016