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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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Flying through Interference

We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…

Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Stop (Just) Measuring Impact, Start Evaluating
May 18, 2015
Srikanth "Srik" Gopal
“We want to know what impact our work has had.”“Does our model work?”“What’s our ROI in terms of impact?”
What Corporate Leaders Need to Know About Their Company’s Impact on Society
May 5, 2015
Marc Pfitzer
Any business affects social conditions for better or worse. It’s unavoidable.Increasing the positives or decreasing the negatives either creates more economic …
Global Health
5 Questions on the Future of Malaria
April 27, 2015
Sebastien Mazzuri
In honor of World Malaria Day, FSG director Sebastien Mazzuri interviewed Andrea Lucard, executive vice president, external relations at Medicines for Malaria …
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Your Questions on Evaluating Complexity Answered—Part 2
April 27, 2015
Srikanth "Srik" Gopal
In our recent webinar What Makes Evaluating Complexity Different?, Cris Kutzli from the Grand Rapids Community Foundation and Mona Jhawar from The California E…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Your Questions on Evaluating Complexity Answered
April 23, 2015
Srikanth "Srik" Gopal Hallie Preskill
In our recent webinar What Makes Evaluating Complexity Different?, Cris Kutzli from the Grand Rapids Community Foundation and Mona Jhawar from The California E…
Global Development
INGOs of the Future: Redefining the Vanguard of Corporate-Nonprofit Partnership
April 1, 2015
Chad Bolick
This article was originally published in DevexImpact, as a part of the #FutureINGO series.Bricolage, or tinkering in French, is an increasingly common term in …
Collective Impact Corporate/CSR U.S. Health
Healthy Communities, Healthy Companies: Engaging the Private Sector in Collective Impact
March 23, 2015
David Garfunkel
In the three short years since FSG’s John Kania and Mark Kramer published Collective Impact in Stanford Social Innovation Review, we’ve been floored at the con…
Global Health
Improving Health Outcomes for Women and Girls
March 19, 2015
David Garfunkel
The cast at last week’s “No Ceilings: Not There Yet” event put on by the Clinton Foundation was impressive. Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Melinda Gates, an…
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Redefining Expectations for Place-based Philanthropy
March 9, 2015
Katelyn Mack Hallie Preskill
What can be learned from The California Endowment’s new approach to place-based philanthropy? Read Redefining Expectations for Place-based Philanthropy for ins…
Global Development Inclusive Markets
Social Enterprise: The Unfulfilled Promise
March 2, 2015
Ahmed Irfan Johan Thuard
Social enterprise or market-based solutions—businesses that engage the poor either as customers or suppliers—have been among the most exciting trends in the de…

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