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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…
What Having a Baby Teaches You About Complexity
October 27, 2014My colleagues at FSG and I have extensively written and spoken about acknowledging the importance of complexity when it comes to social change, whether in coll…
Rethink Who You Call an Expert
October 15, 2014Have you ever been called an expert? If you are reading this post, chances are you have. It may have been by a colleague, a boss, a client, a professor…or mayb…
What is Evaluation, Really?
June 16, 2014Over the years, people have approached us with wonderings about what really counts as evaluation.
The New Science of Evaluating Collective Impact
June 5, 2014In her seminal book, Leadership and the New Science, Margaret Wheatley takes a stance regarding the kind of leadership that is required in today’s world. She u…
What a Systems Approach in Education Truly Entails
June 3, 2014On May 6, 2014, I was fortunate to be with a group of students, parents, and community members gathered at an auditorium in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to celebrat…
Foundation Learning: The Case for Productive Anxiety
April 22, 2014Foundation Learning: The Case for Productive AnxietyIn a new blog from Stanford Social Innovation Review, Diana Scearce from the David and Lucille Packard Foun…
The Power of “We Don’t Know”
March 11, 2014Imagine standing before your Board of Directors and putting forward a bold, ambitious new strategy for your organization. All analyses of assets, capacity, and…
3 Ways the Public Sector Can Think Beyond the Randomized Control Trial
February 28, 2014A few months ago, I wrote a blog post titled, “Overcoming the Seductive Logic of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)”. In it, I suggested that while the logic …
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…
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…