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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…

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
Sources and Measures of Influence in Collective Impact
December 3, 2013
FSG
In a new series on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s blog, FSG’s Katherine Errecart and Anjali Bhatt, and Shiloh Turner, the Greater Cincinnati Foundation’s …
Collective Impact
What’s Up Next for the Collective Impact Forum?
December 2, 2013
Jennifer Splansky Juster
Two weeks ago, we announced The Collective Impact Forum: our new partnership with the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions to share, curate and create the knowl…
Collective Impact
Join us for Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact
November 25, 2013
Jennifer Splansky Juster
After two successful events for backbone leaders in the last year, we are excited to announce the 2014 edition of Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Orga…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Join the Conversation on Next Generation Evaluation
November 19, 2013
Alex Horton
Last week, FSG and Stanford Social Innovation Review hosted Next Generation Evaluation: Embracing Complexity, Connectivity, and Change at Stanford University. …
Collective Impact
Announcing the Collective Impact Forum
November 18, 2013
John Kania
From the moment the original article on collective impact was published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2011, we at FSG have been excited and humbl…
Global Health Shared Value
Cross Sector Collaboration on Shared Value Measurement for Health Solutions
October 29, 2013
Sebastien Mazzuri
In the summer of 2013, FSG and the Shared Value Initiative convened a group of representatives from pharmaceutical, medical device, food/nutrition, technology,…
Collective Impact U.S. Health
Lessons Learned for Applying Collective Impact for Childhood Obesity Efforts (and Public Health Efforts More Broadly)
October 9, 2013
Emily Malenfant Amber Johnson Binkley Vanessa Lynskey
In our final post in this blog series, looking across these seven initiatives reveals several key lessons learned for collective impact in a childhood obesity …
London Calling: Strategy Firms Gather to Advance Shared Value
October 9, 2013
Chad Bolick
What unites 45 consulting firms from 24 countries on 6 continents?A community of practice around shared value strategy. Managed by the Shared Value Initiative,…
Collective Impact U.S. Health
Experimenting with Collective Impact for Childhood Obesity: The 5 Conditions
October 7, 2013
Emily Malenfant Amber Johnson Binkley Vanessa Lynskey
In 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…
Collective Impact U.S. Health
Using Collective Impact in a Public Health Context: Introduction
September 30, 2013
Emily Malenfant Amber Johnson Binkley Vanessa Lynskey
In 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…

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