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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…
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…
Why Education Reformers Need Empathy
November 21, 2011Imagine that I came to your office because I had heard that your organization is struggling to produce results (a diagnosis you agree with), and that I’m here …
Help Wanted: Dynamic Backbone Leader
November 16, 2011Over the past few months, I’ve been working with two separate collective impact efforts to think through a critical question: what human capital is needed to l…
The Other Kind of Impact Investing
November 15, 2011Interest in impact investing has taken off in the last year, reaching a whole new level. Among all this good news, however, are we losing sight of the full ran…
How Can We Treat More Than 0.5% of MDR-TB?
November 14, 2011As I prepared to go to the annual tuberculosis (TB) Union meeting in October, friends and colleagues mentioned that they had heard the good news about TB, that…
Finding an Answer Where You Least Expect It
November 11, 2011Paul Grogan is a catalytic philanthropist who’s not afraid to do the right thing, even when it may look like the wrong thing for a community-based foundation t…