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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…
London Calling: Strategy Firms Gather to Advance Shared Value
October 9, 2013What unites 45 consulting firms from 24 countries on 6 continents?A community of practice around shared value strategy. Managed by the Shared Value Initiative,…
Experimenting with Collective Impact for Childhood Obesity: The 5 Conditions
October 7, 2013In today’s 3rd post of our 4-blog series, we explore how the 5 conditions of collective impact—common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activiti…
Using Collective Impact in a Public Health Context: Introduction
September 30, 2013In today’s 1st post of our 4-blog series, we introduce seven initiatives that are using elements of collective impact to address childhood obesity and other pu…
Learning is a Two-Way Street
September 27, 2013The practice of reflection and learning is much easier said than done. At foundations, we often ask (or require) our grantee partners to engage in the recursiv…
Help Us Build the Collective Impact Community (and 8 New Case Studies)
September 25, 2013As the idea of collective impact continues to gain traction, more and more organizations in communities across the country are coming together to develop initi…
Design Thinking for Evaluation and Learning
September 24, 2013In a recent blog post on SSIR, Rosanna Tran, evaluation officer for the California HealthCare Foundation, and FSG's Srik Gopalakrishnan present three ways desi…
The Single Most Powerful Way to Describe Collective Impact
September 16, 2013I recently spoke with the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at a small school district in Ohio that is participating in a collective impact effort focused…
Collaboration in the Canadian Oil Sands
September 16, 2013The FSG shared value in extractives research team just came back from a week of interviews, presentations and site visits in Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurra…
Why Isn’t Strategic Philanthropy Solving More Problems?
September 10, 2013Strategic philanthropy has not proven to be the catalyst for change projected by many (including us!). But why? Perhaps as currently conceived, strategic phila…
Envisioning Next Generation Evaluation
September 9, 2013Ten years ago, fresh out of graduate school, I was asked to build the evaluation function at a Midwestern foundation. Having had no prior exposure to social se…