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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…

Corporate/CSR

Flying through Interference

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

Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy
Moving Beyond Trade-offs in Impact Investing
October 31, 2018
Nikhil Bumb Harvey Koh Mark Kramer Chinyere Amanze
In the fast-growing impact investing sector, a contentious debate has been brewing. Does genuine impact always require a sacrifice of financial returns? Or sho…
Collective Impact Education & Youth Systems Thinking
Creating Consensus with Targeted Universalism
October 23, 2018
Ursula Wright Hayling Price Ebele Anidi
A collaborative effort, driven by a diverse group of stakeholders united behind a common goal, can serve as a catalyst for addressing inequities at a systems l…
A Call for Philanthropy to Invest in Rural America
October 10, 2018
Wynn Rosser
The overwhelming focus of welfare programs in the United States is urban, but the fact that a rural child is more than twice as likely as an urban child to liv…
Collective Impact
Collective Impact: “A Really Good Thing Happening in America”
October 9, 2018
FSG
In his column in the New York Times, David Brooks writes about StriveTogether and the concept of collective impact that FSG’s Mark Kramer and John Kania named …
Global Development Shared Value
Three Lessons for Creating More Sustainable Smallholder Supply Chains
October 4, 2018
Helge Mahne
The sustainability of smallholder supply chains is top of mind for corporate leaders in the food and agriculture sectors, whether they are consumer-facing comp…
Shared Value
Companies Changing Colombia through Shared Value
September 28, 2018
Laura Amaya Dane Smith
The Empresas INspiradoras list recognizes companies operating in Colombia that are adopting a shared value approach. FSG worked closely with Colombian National…
Corporate/CSR
How Corporate Foundations and CSR Initiatives are ‘Being the Change’
September 17, 2018
Andria Seneviratne Nikhil Bumb
As corporate philanthropy and CSR initiatives experiment with new and more strategic ways to maximize impact on the issues they care about, organizations are i…
Corporate/CSR Shared Value
What Business Leaders Wish NGOs Knew about Transformative Partnerships
September 13, 2018
David Garfunkel Rahima Dosani
As a leader of an NGO, you know that public, nonprofit, philanthropic, and private actors must work together to make progress on the most pressing global issue…
Economic Development Gender Shared Value
The Gender Diversity and Inclusion Imperative: An Interview with Inez Murray
September 11, 2018
Laura S.L. Herman Laura Watry Inez Murray
The Global Banking Alliance for Women (GBA) is a peer learning network of financial services providers working around the world to tap into the power of the wo…
Corporate/CSR
Are the Elite Hijacking Social Change?
September 5, 2018
FSG Mark Kramer
In the fall issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG’s Mark Kramer reviews Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharad…

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