Resources
- Corporate/CSR, Equity
What companies can do to advance racial equity and combat systemic racism in the workplace, communities, and society
- Foundation Strategy, Nonprofits/NGOs, Systems Thinking
Foundations involved in systems change can increase their odds for success by focusing on the least explicit but most…
Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong
June 25, 2024On June 25, FSG hosted a webinar on how top-down models of philanthropy can be transformed.
Power Building, Trust, and Relationships: Supporting Movement Beyond Moments of Reckoning
May 15, 2024At the 2024 Collective Impact Action Summit, we had an incredible plenary conversation on power-building, trust, and supporting movements beyond moments of rec…
Rural America: Philanthropy’s Misunderstood Opportunity for Impact
December 9, 2021Often overlooked by national funders, rural America faces profound inequities, but also provides an untapped source of innovation. FSG received funding from th…
Time to Act: How Philanthropy Must Address the Climate Crisis
November 2, 2021As the climate crisis deepens, FSG shares this call to action for private foundations and donors, especially those that may not have focused on climate previou…
The Water of Systems Change: Action Learning Exercise
July 13, 2018Based on the “inverted triangle” framework presented in The Water of Systems Change, this activity is designed to help individuals think systemically about soc…
The Water of Systems Change
May 15, 2018Foundations involved in systems change can increase their odds for success by focusing on the least explicit but most powerful conditions for change, while als…
Being the Change
12 Ways Foundations Are Transforming Themselves to Transform Their Impact
Collective Impact without Borders
August 25, 2017Funders are increasingly interested in applying the principles of collective impact—a structured, cross-sector approach to solving complex social problems—to c…