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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…
Making Sense of the Future of News
July 26, 2011There’s been a lot of media attention recently on the future of the news industry. This month, The Economist published a special report, Bulletins from the Fut…
One Firm Feel
July 25, 2011One of the themes of FSG’s approach to solving difficult problems is getting multiple people working on the issue. Lots of brains are better than one. We emplo…
Collective Impact in Cartagena Colombia with Clinton
July 20, 2011Martha Montes lives one of the poorest neighborhoods of Cartagena, Colombia. She has a small, two room house with a cement slab floor where 5 people live and i…
The Good News about Detroit
July 19, 2011I’m not going to introduce this blog post with a context-setting string of depressing statistics about Detroit. Let’s just say that, when I was in the Motor Ci…
NGOs: From Grantees to Shared Value Partners
July 18, 2011Among all the inquiries we’ve received about Creating Shared Value during the last 6 months, the most curious have been from non-governmental organizations (NG…
Summer Reading: Creating Shared Value
July 18, 2011Following on heels of our recent Leadership Summit, there continues to be a buzz about Creating Shared Value.Here are some recent shared value articles to add …
Youth in Foster Care: An Invisible Underserved Population
July 14, 2011For the past few weeks, I have been learning about an important, underserved group of youth in the United States: Foster Youth.
Early Learning Indicators – Race to the Top
July 13, 2011By December 2011, the U.S. government will allocate $500 million to states through the Race to the Top (RTTT) Early Learning Challenge (ELC). The ELC is a new…
Taming the Tiger’s TB: addressing tuberculosis in China
July 12, 2011Recently I was fortunate enough to travel far and wide across China (after an equally exciting trip to Russia) to understand the growing epidemic of multi-drug…
A Real Breakthrough
July 6, 2011When asked for a simple way to think about performance measurement, I usually respond that there are two basic approaches. Setting clear goals and tracking you…