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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…
Join FSG in Protecting Access to Federal Housing Data
April 20, 2017Along with several national organizations, FSG recently signed onto a letter encouraging Congress to protect fair housing regulations and oppose efforts to blo…
Engaging Employers: Three Lessons from Impact Hiring
April 11, 2017This post was originally published by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Entry-Level Retention Makes a Billion Dollar Difference for Business and Society
March 27, 2017In the years since the Great Recession, unemployment levels have fallen across the United States, while economic growth in the country has rebounded. As a resu…
Opportunity Youth at Work
October 18, 2016Launched in August 2015, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative is the nation’s largest employer-led coalition focused on supporting opportunity youth—16-24 year…
Turning the Tide of Youth Unemployment in South Africa
September 12, 2016Youth unemployment has reached crisis levels in South Africa, with only 1 in 3 youths of working age employed. The high level of youth unemployment has far-rea…
Resource Alert: The Distressed Communities Index
March 18, 2016One challenge we often hear from social change practitioners, especially those working on collective impact issues, is around the lack of data available to sho…
Women, Work and Social Change
November 5, 2014On Friday, October 31, I had the honor of participating in an intimate roundtable discussion about women and the economy with President Obama at the Rhode Isla…
Coming Together to Disrupt the Cycle of Poverty
March 31, 2014Think of the people you know who live paycheck to paycheck. Whether they see themselves as teetering on the edge or doing OK, they’re vulnerable to what comes …
Building Relationships One Step at a Time
April 2, 2013SVA’s (Social Ventures Australia) recent article, Laying the Foundations for Collective Impact in Solving Unemployment in SVA Consulting Quarterly, looked at a…
Continuing the Discussion of Opportunity Youth
March 4, 2013Last month, FSG and Aspen Forum for Community Solutions co-hosted a webinar, “Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth,” that explored why collective impact is …