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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…
Engaging Executive Leaders in Building a Culture of Health
March 19, 2019FSG’s Co-CEO, Lauren Smith, MD, MPH is a faculty member for a new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health executive education course, “Driving Business Perfo…
Leading with Purpose to Support Shared Value Performance
March 14, 2019These days, companies frequently talk about purpose as a way to engage society. Business leaders leverage a compelling purpose statement—a company’s fundamenta…
Gender Equality is Not Just a Women’s Issue
March 11, 2019In the pursuit of achieving gender equality, the focus has often been on women: how to remove barriers for the inclusion of women, how to empower women, how to…
How to Create a Corporate Culture that Supports Shared Value
March 5, 2019Many of the world’s leading companies are adopting strategies that have shared value at their center. These companies recognize that there are opportunities t…
New in Harvard Business Review: 12 Practices for Advancing Women in Retail Jobs
March 4, 2019Even though the women comprise half the workforce, they are overrepresented in frontline positions and consistently underrepresented in higher-paying managemen…
Five Ways Foundations Can Help Protect Children from Adverse Experiences and Trauma
February 26, 2019Recent research has increased attention on the wide-ranging and serious consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Over 45% of children in the Unit…
The Backlash to Larry Fink’s Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility
February 1, 2019Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investor with $6 trillion under management, evoked heated controversy with his remarks last week that his com…
A Conversation on Creating Shared Value at Davos
January 23, 2019Today we met with 25 investors and corporate leaders in Davos to discuss the changes needed to get more investors to allocate resources to shared value compani…
New from FSG and GEO: Engaging Boards and Trustees in Strategic Learning
January 17, 2019Nearly a decade ago, FSG published What’s the Difference: How Foundation Trustees View Evaluation, exploring how boards and trustees were thinking about evalua…
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FSG Staff Share Highlights from 2018
December 13, 2018We are grateful and humbled to work alongside clients and partners around the globe on a wide range of pressing social impact issues. Below FSG staff share som…