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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 Education & Youth
Alan Khazei on Moving Beyond Scaling
July 22, 2015
Alan Khazei
When 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, 2015
Nina Jais
This blog was originally featured in the Shared Value Initiative's community at sharedvalue.org.
Global Development
Integrated Development—What Is It and Why Should We Care?
July 7, 2015
Adeeb Z. Mahmud
Last week, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel as a side event to the InterAction Forum to discuss integrated approaches to development. Practitioners fr…
Collective Impact
Critical Elements for Collective Impact Success
July 6, 2015
Fay Hanleybrown Jennifer Splansky Juster
The definition of collective impact is “the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social p…
U.S. Health
Operating When You Can’t See the Full Picture
June 25, 2015
Jeff Cohen
This blog was originally posted in Stanford Social Innovation Review's Communities Creating Health series. Problems can be simple, complicated, or complex. Bui…
Collective Impact Global Health U.S. Health
A Cross-Sector Approach to Tackling Diabetes
June 18, 2015
Samantha King Sebastien Mazzuri Kimberly Gilsdorf
Pharmaceutical companies have incredible potential to create social value. One of the companies we point to as a leader in this space, through our previous blo…
Collective Impact
Video: Equity Matters in Collective Impact
June 16, 2015
FSG
At the 2015 Collective Impact Convening in New Orleans, Angela Glover Blackwell of PolicyLink presented the keynote address, Equity Matters in Collective Impa…
Collective Impact
Three Misconceptions around Collective Impact
June 9, 2015
Fay Hanleybrown Jennifer Splansky Juster
Collective impact is a concept that has resonated with many in the field over the years since we first wrote about it in 2011. The 5 conditions—common agenda, …
Huffington Post Announces New Purpose + Profit Platform
June 3, 2015
FSG
Yesterday, the Huffington Post announced What’s Working: Purpose + Profit, a new platform for companies that are “moving beyond the obsession with quarterly ea…
Global Development
It Pays for the Extractives Industry to Consider Social Benefits
May 27, 2015
Philippe Sion
“There’s something like $25 billion worth of mining projects tied up or stopped by local communities’ opposition to extractive activities,” Mark Cutifani, chie…

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