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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…
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…
Shaping the Collective Impact Learning Agenda
December 13, 2011FSG recently hosted a breakfast meeting with 15 funders that were attending the Independent Sector conference in Chicago. We organized the breakfast in respons…
Creating Shared Value in India
December 7, 2011This post originally appeared on Business Fights Poverty.Today India represents one of the fastest growing economies in the world, in great contrast with the d…
Strategic Learning and Milking Cows
November 29, 2011I was recently invited to participate in a session for the 2012 National Conference of the Grantmakers for Effective Philanthropy (GEO). The session is titled …
Dollars that Respond—for Today and Tomorrow
November 28, 2011A recent New York Times op-ed by Ray Madoff, entitled “Tax Write-Off Now, Charity Later” poses several theoretical challenges to Donor Advised Funds. The artic…
Create Shared Value with a Trampoline Approach
November 21, 2011This post is part of the HBR series of blog posts by and about the new generation of purpose-driven leaders. Too often companies approach their engagement with…