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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…
Advancing the Practice of Collective Impact
May 16, 2016This post is adapted from our response to Tom Wolff’s editorial, both of which were posted on the Collective Impact Forum's website on May 4, 2016. Our thanks …
Spotlight on The Elton John AIDS Foundation: 4 Questions with Mohamed Osman
May 11, 2016While great progress has been made against HIV/AIDS in the past few decades, there are still 16 million people living with HIV today, with the scale of the epi…
Announcing the Shared Value Summit Livestream
May 9, 2016We are busy getting ready for the Shared Value Leadership Summit this week. Joining shared value pioneer and returning Summit speaker Michael Porter are leader…
New Resource: Seven Principles for Investing in Early Care and Education
May 4, 2016Recent research and advocacy efforts have led funders, politicians, and the business community to agree that the first years of a child’s life can determine th…
The Shared Value Summit–A Community Affair
April 28, 2016When describing the history of our Shared Value Summit, I always begin the story in the same way: “Our first summit was a modest affair…and I’m not being modes…
Tools for Supporting Systems Thinking and Change
April 21, 2016Earlier this month, my colleagues Srik Gopal and Hallie Preskill described the characteristics of complex systems and introduced a framework for applying syste…
How Do You Successfully Put Collective Impact into Action?
April 21, 2016This content originally appeared on the Collective Impact Forum's website. Collective Impact Principles of Practice
Four Insights for Creating Outcomes for Opportunity Youth
April 15, 2016Launched in August 2015, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative is creating the nation’s largest employer-led coalition focused on helping young people build ski…
Harnessing the Impact Potential of Technology Entrepreneurs
April 13, 2016FSG’s newest office, located in Mumbai, houses our inclusive markets team, which works to develop and scale inclusive business models to create new opportuniti…
Putting Systems Thinking into Practice
April 11, 2016Several leading thinkers such as Brenda Zimmerman, Frances Westley, and Michael Quinn Patton (in Getting to Maybe), David Peter Stroh (in Systems Thinking for …