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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…
Collective Impact in Cartagena Colombia with Clinton
July 20, 2011Martha Montes lives one of the poorest neighborhoods of Cartagena, Colombia. She has a small, two room house with a cement slab floor where 5 people live and i…
The Good News about Detroit
July 19, 2011I’m not going to introduce this blog post with a context-setting string of depressing statistics about Detroit. Let’s just say that, when I was in the Motor Ci…
TB in Siberia
June 20, 2011Imagine Siberia, swamps, snows and mosquitos, the dark heart of Russian history- prisons and camps and starving farmers. It might be surprising to you that I l…
Rethinking an African Proverb
May 2, 2011I recently came across an African proverb: “If you want to go fast, you go alone. If you want to go far, you go together.” For the last six months, FSG has bee…
Taking Off the Training Wheels
April 21, 2011It’s been almost a month since FSG held its collective impact conference with Stanford Social Innovation Review in California. More than 300 attendees arrived …
Brussels Sprouts and Collective Impact
April 11, 2011Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. In my family, Thanksgiving is a big gathering with aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, second cousins a…
Lifting the Veil…to See Your Own Face
April 6, 2011Why do companies say they are responsible, but then act differently? Is it lip service, green washing, and double-speak? Or does this happen for a different re…
DoGoodBetter
March 21, 2011This is the first post of the DoGoodBetter blog (which currently lives on www.domorethangivebook.com).
Announcing the DoGoodBetter Blog
March 21, 2011This is the first post of the DoGoodBetter blog (which also lives on www.domorethangivebook.com).
Unrest in Our Schools
March 2, 2011As protests rage and political powers are overthrown in the Middle East, we are seeing a similar battle ensuing at home. In Madison, New York City and Philadel…