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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 in Health – Webinar Questions Answered
January 22, 2014In a recent FSG webinar discussion on collective impact in health Christy Reeves, director of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation, Dr. Victo…
So You Think You Can Measure? 4 Guideposts for Next Generation Evaluation Efforts
January 15, 2014Next Generation Evaluation was a synergy of brilliant ideas by some of evaluation’s foremost authorities. Big kudos to hosts SSIR and FSG for getting foundati…
Why are Drugs so Expensive?
January 9, 2014Why drugs are so expensive: It's the science, stupidIn a new blog series from Scientific American discussing the challenges of drug discovery, chemist Ashutosh…
5 Notes on the Future of Next Generation Evaluation
January 2, 2014FSG’s Next Generation Evaluation Learning Brief was aimed at starting a conversation about how evaluation should evolve and grow to respond to social sector in…
Webinar: Taking Shared Value to the Next Level
December 20, 2013The best businesses not only make profits, but bake society’s needs directly into their profit-making. And for the most part, companies are on-board with share…
Lessons from the Community Partnerships Portfolio
December 18, 2013For the past three and a half years, the OMG Center has served as the evaluation partner for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Community Partnerships portf…
A Reflection: Collective Impact in Australia – 12 Months On
December 16, 2013This post originally appeared on Pro Bono Australia News. After just over 12 months of fully immersing ourselves in trying to better understand how we can incr…
Our Latest Research: Ahead of the Curve
December 11, 2013Over the last 70 years, International NGOs have become key development actors in global relief and development. The question for the next 20 years is whether t…
Beth Kanter’s Notes from Next Generation Evaluation
December 11, 2013This week, Beth Kanter shared her notes from the Next Generation Evaluation conference from her perspective as an author, blogger, and trainer for the nonprofi…
Four Things I Learned at the Next Generation Evaluation Conference
December 9, 2013The recent Next Generation Evaluation conference took nearly 400 participants on a journey to consider how evaluation needs to continue to evolve in an environ…