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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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Flying through Interference

We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…

How to Ask Latinos? Understanding Cultural Differences to Conduct Better Interviews with Latinos
December 16, 2011
Efraín Gutiérrez
Note: This post originally appeared on AEA365, the American Evaluation Association's blog.
Collective Impact Education & Youth
Cradle to Career Roadmap: Gates Blog Post
December 15, 2011
FSG
For 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…
Collective Impact
Shaping the Collective Impact Learning Agenda
December 13, 2011
Robert Albright
FSG 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, 2011
Veronica Borgonovi
This 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 & Evaluation
Strategic Learning and Milking Cows
November 29, 2011
Efraín Gutiérrez
I was recently invited to participate in a session for the 2012 National Conference of the Grantmakers for Effective Philanthropy (GEO). The session is titled …
Foundation Strategy
Dollars that Respond—for Today and Tomorrow
November 28, 2011
Carina Wendel Rebecca W. Graves
A 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, 2011
This 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…
Education & Youth
Why Education Reformers Need Empathy
November 21, 2011
David Phillips
Imagine 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 …
Collective Impact
Help Wanted: Dynamic Backbone Leader
November 16, 2011
Emily Malenfant
Over 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…
Economic Development Global Development
The Other Kind of Impact Investing
November 15, 2011
Mark Kramer
Interest 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…

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