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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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Flying through Interference

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

Catalytic Philanthropy for India-scale Social Impact
September 19, 2011
Everything in India, it seems, occurs at scales unimaginable anywhere else in the world. I suppose after being here for close to a year to set up FSG’s office …
Shared Value
The Advantage of Family-Owned Businesses in Creating Shared Value
September 19, 2011
Marc Pfitzer
Family-Owned multinationals are achieving big wins against climate change, sustainable agriculture, infectious diseases, and many other issues in ways that als…
Education & Youth
The Future Already Happened
September 14, 2011
Ellen Martin
A colleague of mine recently lamented that, despite all the hype, “technology in the classroom” is hardly a new concept. In the 1980s, when the first PCs were …
Collective Impact
Shared Measurement for Collective Impact
September 14, 2011
What does it take for lots of different organizations measuring their own performance in different ways to move to using a common set of measures to track prog…
Global Health
It’s About People We Will Never Meet
September 13, 2011
Tracy J. Sims
Finding meaningful answers to global health questions is hard, because, well, they are global. World leaders will convene next week to consider the massive and…
Is Not Doing Bad Doing Good Enough?
September 12, 2011
Veronica Borgonovi
It’s a great time to be in India. Sure, it’s monsoon season, and heavy rains mean higher risk of malaria and bacterial illness, loads of traffic, and an inabil…
Collective Impact
Collective Impact: A Compelling Cause & Compact for Growth
September 7, 2011
by Diana Aviv, president and CEO, Independent Sector
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Cultural Competence in Evaluation
September 7, 2011
Katrina L. Bledsoe
Recently, I had a fortuitous discussion with a dean from a reputable medical school in the east coast who asserted that culture accounted for “almost nothing” …
Foundation Strategy
Like Politics, Catalytic Philanthropy is Local
September 5, 2011
Leslie Crutchfield
We talk a big game in Do More Than Give, urging donors to solve pressing problems and drive for wide-scale, systemic change. But when it comes to demonstrating…
Shared Value
How Do Small and Mid-sized Businesses Create Shared Value?
August 31, 2011
Ellen Martin
A colleague and I were recently invited to talk about shared value with members of the Entrepreneurs Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Though we had a …

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