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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…
Corporations Can Accelerate Solutions to the Worldwide Refugee Crisis
August 1, 2016The current volume of worldwide refugees is staggering—20 million people are categorized as refugees out of 60 million displaced from their homes according to …
New Systems Thinking Tool: Timeline Mapping
July 14, 2016This post is a part of our systems thinking tools blog series where we’re introducing and sharing guidance for using different tools to support systems thinkin…
New Systems Thinking Tool: World Café
June 15, 2016This post is a part of our systems thinking tools blog series where we’re introducing and sharing guidance for using different tools to support systems thinkin…
5 Leading Practices for Evaluating Ecosystem Investments
June 1, 2016Everyone in philanthropy seems to be talking about how funding programs alone won’t solve big social problems. Many organizations are shifting from program inv…
Tools for Supporting Systems Thinking and Change
April 21, 2016Earlier this month, my colleagues Srik Gopal and Hallie Preskill described the characteristics of complex systems and introduced a framework for applying syste…
Putting Systems Thinking into Practice
April 11, 2016Several leading thinkers such as Brenda Zimmerman, Frances Westley, and Michael Quinn Patton (in Getting to Maybe), David Peter Stroh (in Systems Thinking for …
The FSG Story and What Does FSG Stand For Anyway?
February 22, 2016We are often asked how FSG started, what FSG stands for, and how the organization has changed over the years. This post gives an overview of FSG’s history.
Using Rich Pictures to Explore Perspectives in Your Change Initiative
January 25, 2016This blog is a part of our Guide to System Mapping blog series. Think back to the last time you drew a picture. Maybe it was last week when you found yourself …
Learning to Love the Process and Other Lessons from System Mapping
December 7, 2015In the last 2 blog posts in this series, my colleagues provided an overview of system mapping and a specific example of the mapping process in action. Over the…
System Mapping in Action
November 10, 2015As part of our blog series on system mapping, we’d like to share an example from one of our recent projects that used system mapping techniques to support a br…