All Knowledge Items

Do More Than Give at the Boston Foundation Philanthropy Forum

Recorded livestream of the Boston Foundation Philanthropy Forum focused on our book Do More Than Give featuring FSG's Leslie Crutchfield, John Kania and Mark Kramer.

Video

2011 Client Project Highlights

Highlights of FSG’s client project work from 2011; social impact projects that range from improving education in Oregon to fighting malaria.

Video

2011 Reports from the Field: Place-based Foundations and the Knight Community Information Challenge

John Kania, Katelyn Mack, Ellen Martin, Marina Pol Longo, Hallie Preskill

This second annual report highlights lessons learned from the Knight Community Information Challenge.

Report

A Brief Guide to the Law of Mission Investing for U.S. Foundations

Mark Kramer, Anne Stetson

Laws governing mission-investing are complex.  These guides analyze U.S. laws for these investments and recommend ways to navigate them.

Report

A Different View on Community Funds

Mark Kramer

In this letter to the editor, Kramer takes exception to an article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy--and argues that the most successful community foundations will be those that respond simultaneously to the needs of their community and their donors.

Article

A Market for Success: How a Robust Service Provider Market Can Help Community Colleges Deliver Success

This webinar featured community college leaders and experts discussing highlights of the FSG report on what community colleges most need to improve student success rates.

Presentation

A Market for Success: How a Robust Service Provider Market Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Completion

Jeff Kutash, Kate Tallant, Matt Wilka, Kevin Connell

This report draws on the perspectives of community college leaders to explore how external service providers can best help colleges improve student completion.

Report

Webinar

A New Challenge for Global Companies: Successfully Managing MLO and NGO Relationships

Kyle Peterson

Multinational companies today are investing the time and talent to ensure that their relationships with multilateral organizations (MLOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are active and positive.

Report

Activity-Based Costing Toolkit

The Activity-Based Costing toolkit enables you to do an in depth assessment of your community foundation’s products and services and provides data to make informed decisions and improve sustainability.

Toolkit

Advancing Good Governance - Executive Summary

Kathy K. Hedge, Eva Nico, Lindsay Fox

Many nonprofits and grantmakers are engaging in nonprofit board development activities to transform the social sector and achieve dramatic results.

Executive Summary

Advancing Good Governance: How Grantmakers Invest in the Governance of Nonprofit Organizations

Kathy K. Hedge, Eva Nico, Lindsay Fox

Many nonprofits and grantmakers are engaging in nonprofit board development activities to transform the social sector and achieve dramatic results.

Report

Executive Summary

Advancing Philanthropy in Switzerland: A Vision for a Cooperative and Recognized Philanthropic Sector

Marc Pfitzer, Valerie Bockstette, Mike Stamp

To dramatically transform Swiss philanthropy, funders must undertake strategies to catalyze cooperation and put philanthropy on the map.

Report

Aggregating Impact: A Funder's Guide to Mission Investment Intermediaries

Mark Kramer, Sarah Cooch

This guide to mission investment intermediaries highlights the range of intermediaries available and the advantages they offer funders.

Report

Toolkit

All Profits are Not Created Equal

Kevin Trapani

In his presentation at TEDxAshokaU, Kevin Trapani of The Redwoods Group challenges business schools to teach moral values. Kevin mentions the creating shared value approach as part of this new way of thinking.

Video

Allocating Resources in a Time of Scarcity

Mark Kramer, John Kania

In tough times foundations should concentrate their giving in those areas in which their expertise, relationships, and grantees create the greatest value.

Article

Anti-Corruption as Strategic CSR Video

Greg Hills on the strategic approach corporations can take to make anti-corruption a business imperative.

Video

Anti-Corruption as Strategic CSR Webinar

Greg Hills, Adeeb Mahmud, Patricia Harned

Engaging in anti-corruption strategies is an opportunity for corporations to improve competitiveness while limiting diversion of resources from disadvantaged populations.

Webinar

Anti-Corruption as Strategic CSR: A Call to Action for Corporations

Greg Hills, Leigh Fiske, Adeeb Mahmud

Engaging in anti-corruption strategies is an opportunity for corporations to improve competitiveness while limiting diversion of resources from disadvantaged populations.

Report

Video

Webinar

Aspiring to a Plan - And Acheiving It

Owen Stearns

This article features an interview with Wendy Ault, the Executive Director of the MELMAC Foundation, and in which she talks about the problem they faced and the process FSG and MELMAC went through together to create a strategic plan.

Article

Becoming the Community's Foundation - Insight and Change in New Haven

John Kania, Matthew Clark

This article describes the process of developing a new donor development strategy based on FSG's work with the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven.

Report