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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…
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- Corporate/CSR
Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
Community Foundations and Impact Investing of DAFs
January 18, 2012On January 9th, Wall Street Journal blogger Veronica Dagher posted an article highlighting the opportunity for philanthropic donors with Donor Advised Funds (D…
The Need for Need-Based Aid
January 17, 2012Many low-income college students will still receive up to $5,500 in Pell grants during the 2012-2013 academic year, thanks to federal budget negotiations that …
New Year, New Ways of Seeing
January 11, 2012I love it when a writer inspires you to view familiar things in a new light. Lucy Bernholz’s review of the book Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier …
The Global Fund: Too Important to Fail
January 10, 2012Ten years ago, the world’s wealthiest nations made an unprecedented commitment to save the lives of the world’s poor by creating The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,…
The Intersection of Strategy & Evaluation: Philanthropy’s Sweet Spot
January 9, 2012Though I am an optimist by nature, I have long been concerned about the schisms that exist between strategy and evaluation, in most organizations, and how this…
Purpose-Filled Evaluations
January 3, 2012Happy New Year from FSG’s Strategic Learning and Evaluation blog! As I welcomed 2012, I sat with friends around a table for an annual New Year’s Day brunch. Ea…
9 States Get the Gift of $500M for Early Learning
December 21, 2011A growing emphasis on greater standards for quality early education is emerging from the Obama Administration’s ‘Race to the Top’ Early Learning Challenge (RTT…
Collective Impact Thinking in 2011
December 19, 2011The FSG team and our colleagues at nonprofits and foundations around the country have been thinking quite a bit about collective impact this year. Here is a re…
How to Ask Latinos? Understanding Cultural Differences to Conduct Better Interviews with Latinos
December 16, 2011Note: This post originally appeared on AEA365, the American Evaluation Association's blog.
Cradle to Career Roadmap: Gates Blog Post
December 15, 2011For a real-time look at collective impact in action, please see our client Mary Jean Ryan’s recent Gates Foundation blog about the Road Map Project, a new coll…