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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…

You Cannot Manage What You Cannot Measure
October 3, 2011
Sonja Patscheke
We have continued to explore the question of how companies can translate the idea of Creating Shared Value (CSV) into their corporate strategy and business pro…
Collective Impact Foundation Strategy
It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint
September 28, 2011
Roxann Stafford
Last week, FSG had the privilege of hosting a session, “From Collaboration to Collective Impact,” at the Council on Foundations Fall Conference for Community F…
Segmenting Disaster Relief
September 27, 2011
Writing in last week’s Poverty Matters blog, Lord Ashdown, the UK President of international aid organization UNICEF, called for “investing in emergency risk r…
Global Health U.S. Health
Restoring Trust in Vaccines: A Complex Task
September 27, 2011
Simon Meier
The FSG Global Health Impact Area regularly organizes training sessions, in which guest speakers are invited to share their perspectives on some of the most pr…
Corporate/CSR Education & Youth
The Multiplier Effect of Collaboration
September 27, 2011
Barbara McAllister
Recently, I connected with the producer of an upcoming documentary on the life of Julius Rosenwald, a philanthropist from the early 1900’s that funded over 5K …
Collective Impact Foundation Strategy
Public-Philanthropic Collaboratives: Finding a Partner in Uncle Sam
September 25, 2011
Patty Russell
“How can we work in concert with the public sector to grow, sustain and innovate in our communities in a time of shrinking resources?”
Education & Youth Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Finally! An Approach to Evaluating Complexity
September 20, 2011
Hallie Preskill
A number of years ago, I had the privilege of conducting a three-year evaluation of a new and promising educational reform effort called, The Saturn School of …
Collective Impact
Conducting Colorado’s Obesity Prevention Convergence
September 20, 2011
By Maren Stewart, President and CEO of LiveWell ColoradoIt is no secret that obesity is a growing health crisis. As recent statistics show, our nation is getti…
Education & Youth
Will Technology Power the Next Phase of Charter School Growth?
September 20, 2011
Eric Paisner
Every year my organization, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), examines the growing student enrollment in public charter schools across …
Collective Impact
Searching for the Right Backbone Structure
September 19, 2011
Since FSG’s Mark Kramer and John Kania published their article on Collective Impact in Stanford Social Innovation Review in early 2011, we have received numero…

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