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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…
Shared Outcomes for Sector-Wide Change in Greater Cincinnati
August 27, 2012Recently, my FSG colleagues and I had the fortune of working with social sector leaders in Greater Cincinnati to help them advance their measurement and evalu…
New Approaches to Evaluating Social Innovation
August 23, 2012This post originally appeared on Knight Blog.Social innovation by definition is dynamic, as projects hoping to catalyze large-scale change don’t often have a c…
Reporting on Shared Value: Marks & Spencer Gets It Right
August 22, 2012Last month, the British food and clothing retailer, Marks & Spencer, released a 5-year progress report on their sustainable retailing strategy, Plan A. (Slogan…
Making Financial Aid Accessible to Low-Income Youth – New Report
August 14, 2012We hope you'll download our newest report-- Keeping the Promise of Opportunity: Redesigning Financial Aid to Support Post-Secondary Completion Among Low-Income…
Sustainability fatigue: could healthy competition be the cure?
August 13, 2012This post originally appeared on The Guardian's Sustainable Business Blog.
A Call to Evaluate Social Innovation…Differently
August 7, 2012Question: What do the following foundation led initiatives have in common?The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s YouthScape program tested strategies for invol…
If You Want to Understand the Value of Backbone Organizations – Read On!
July 23, 2012Earlier this year, FSG began working with the Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) and six backbone organizations in the region that recently received multi-yea…
United the Collective Impact Way
July 17, 2012United Ways have been playing an important role in communities, serving as volunteer-led, nonprofit organizations, working for over 125 year in issues such as …
Early Learning Assessment Game Changer
July 17, 2012Assessments of kindergarten readiness are fraught with opinions about what should be assessed, how old children should be when assessed, and what the assessmen…
Social Impact at FSG: Do More Than Consult
July 16, 2012I have always been excited about the principles we outlined in our 2011 book “Do More than Give.” So much so that I often wonder how these principles apply to …