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- Foundation Strategy
Embracing an Ecosystem Approach for Philanthropy
Funders are shifting from being at the center of social change efforts to working in close partnership with the…
- Corporate/CSR
Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
How CSR Executives Can Lead Strategy in Uncertain Times
March 6, 2017If you lead your company’s corporate social responsibility or sustainability efforts, you are likely getting calls about the unpredictable political context i…
Introducing the Corporate Racial Equity Advantage
February 7, 2017Now, more than ever, the future of America depends on equity—just and fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper, and reach their full…
Saving Business from Itself
August 24, 2016This blog was originally published on sharedvalue.org. Greedy. Dishonest. Destructive. Exploitive.
Corporations Can Accelerate Solutions to the Worldwide Refugee Crisis
August 1, 2016The current volume of worldwide refugees is staggering—20 million people are categorized as refugees out of 60 million displaced from their homes according to …
Just Add Water—Cooking up Successful Corporate-NGO Partnerships
June 8, 2016What do you get when you combine a quarter cup of water with table salt and a zap from a car battery? Enough chlorine to purify 200 liters of drinking water.
Social Impact Through Employee Engagement
May 23, 2016At FSG, our clients often ask how a corporation’s societal engagement programs—such as employee giving, volunteering, sustainability initiatives, and shared va…
CSR Executives Test New Framing to Describe Their Giving Strategies
April 5, 2016As a consultant, sometimes it’s hard to know if the frameworks we create resonate with practitioners who are actually doing the work. So it was a powerful mome…
How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger
March 8, 2016In a new blog on Harvard Business Review, “How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger,” FSG’s Mark Kramer examines how corporations contributed to the ang…
One Size Doesn’t Fit All—Redesigning Employee Engagement
December 3, 2015Employee engagement is a topic that keeps many corporate managers up at night. Engaged employees are more productive and are more likely to stay longer with th…
New Resource: Corporate Societal Engagement Strategy Toolkit
September 28, 2015If you’re responsible for corporate societal engagement at your company, if your title is president of your corporate foundation, or VP of CSR, or Director of …