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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…
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- Corporate/CSR
Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
What Do Shared Value Leaders Have in Common?
September 7, 2015Since publishing “Creating Shared Value” in 2011, our work has largely focused on the mechanical issues of shared value – how to create, measure, and implement…
Applying An Equity Mirror to Collective Impact
September 3, 2015There has been increasing buzz about “equity” and “racial equity” in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors and among cross-sector collective impact efforts. …
Fortune Ranks Top Companies Changing the World
August 20, 2015Business-as-usual is changing. The conventional wisdom that capitalism comes at great cost to society is being challenged. Instead, we’ve observed that the mos…
New Guide for Grantmakers from The Rockefeller Foundation
August 13, 2015The Rockefeller Foundation and Monitor Institute have launched Engage: How Funders Can Support and Leverage Networks for Social Impact, a new online resource t…
Collective Impact Lessons for Philanthropy
August 10, 2015Funders are critical actors in collective impact efforts, and their contributions stretch well beyond financial resources. Other valuable assets that philanthr…
New Resource: Systems Change Guide from NPC
August 3, 2015System Leadership is a topic that FSG has been thinking about and writing about in the past few years – but we are by no means the only ones. We have a lot to …
New Platform for Engaging Philanthropists in Global Development
July 31, 2015There has been a lot of coverage of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa earlier this month, and most of it is pretty…
Transforming a Juvenile Justice System through Community Engagement
July 27, 2015This post was originally published on the Youth Transition Funders Group blog.
Alan Khazei on Moving Beyond Scaling
July 22, 2015When I co-founded City Year with my college roommate Michael Brown in 1988, social entrepreneurship was emerging as a dynamic approach for social change. This …
Finding Hidden Connections between Social Change Movements
July 13, 2015This blog was originally featured in the Shared Value Initiative's community at sharedvalue.org.