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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…

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Flying through Interference

We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…

Foundation Strategy
Foundations: Use Your Balance Sheet to Help
March 23, 2020
Mark Kramer
During this massive economic upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, government and media attention is focused on the impact on businesses, financial markets…
Corporate/CSR Global Health Shared Value U.S. Health
COVID-19 and Corporate Purpose—Four Ways Businesses Can Respond Now
March 12, 2020
Greg Hills
The continuous COVID-19 developments are both dizzying and daunting. Countries and communities alike are grappling with strained health systems and strict cont…
Economic Development Gender
Can Snow Clearing Be Sexist?
March 6, 2020
Flynn Lebus Laura Amaya Talia Alongi
“It all started as a joke…” So begins the first chapter of Caroline Criado Perez’s book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. “At l…
Foundation Strategy Global Health U.S. Health
COVID-19⁠—Seven Things Philanthropy Can Do
March 2, 2020
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
As governments, businesses, and individuals scramble to respond to the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic, those of us who work in the social sector rightly ask wh…
Corporate/CSR Shared Value
Using Shared Value for Climate Action
February 18, 2020
Carina Wendel
A look into FSG’s project with Swedish construction company OBOS
Foundation Strategy
The Importance of Framing for Foundations Engaging on Equity
February 4, 2020
John Harper
A senior leader from a small family foundation recently told me the story of when her organization first began conversations about racial equity and its role i…
Collective Impact Shared Value
How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems
January 23, 2020
Mark Kramer Marc Pfitzer Helge Mahne
Corporate/CSR Gender Shared Value U.S. Health
The Business Case for Reproductive Health
January 21, 2020
Nina Harstad Neeraja Bhavaraju
Women now make up more than half of the United States workforce, increasingly represented in roles from the frontline to the C-suite. In a highly competitive t…
Corporate/CSR Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
Top Reads from 2019
December 16, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH Greg Hills
As FSG enters its 20th year of supporting social impact funders and leaders across sectors, we are appreciative of our clients and partners around the world. Y…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Three Ways Funders Can Be Co-Strategists
November 26, 2019
John Harper
Last week, a few of my colleagues and I had the pleasure of attending Change Philanthropy’s Unity Summit, a biennial gathering that now brings together more th…

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