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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…
Closing the Rural-Urban Gap: The REAP Model
June 4, 2012REAP (The Rural Education Action Project) was founded in 2007 with a double mission.
Funding Successful Collaborations
June 4, 2012Professor Wei-Skillern’s decade of research on successful nonprofit collaborations highlights key success factors that closely align with the behavioral change…
One Country, Two Worlds – China’s Education Divide
May 29, 2012A spot at Tsinghua University, where I’ve been based these past six months, is awarded each year to the top few thousand students sitting the gruelling gaokao,…
Collective Impact, Metaphorically Speaking
May 28, 2012FSGers have been traveling the world talking about collective impact with various audiences. When we speak about the fact that isolated impact – while well int…
Making Shared Measurement Work
May 23, 2012I have been excited to hear about many of the collective impact initiatives going on across the country and around the world as a way to address complex social…
Signs of System Change
May 21, 2012Society is beginning to recognize that the problems we face- hunger, homelessness, poverty, disease- are systemic in nature. These problems involve a group of …
What are in YOUR baskets?
May 20, 2012“That’s my third basket,” I said to a friend, smiling, as I sat through a presentation at Seattle City Year's “Ripples of Hope” fundraiser last week. Then I ra…
Shared Pizza, Shared Value
May 15, 2012The night before a major meeting with our client’s executive team in Santiago, Chile a few weeks ago, I was scarfing down dinner at a pizza joint while discuss…
The School of the Future
May 9, 2012Helping the Kid with the Giant Hands LearnMy two oldest kids started kindergarten this year and my third is in pre-school. So while I’ve worked in public educa…
Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm
May 7, 2012In philanthropy, evaluation is often used to test a specific theory of change: to see whether a grant-funded intervention has had the desired effect. But there…