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Collective Impact
Mark Kramer, John Kania
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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Creating Shared Value
Michael Porter, Mark Kramer
The concept of creating ‘shared value’ focuses on the connections between societal and economic progress and has the power to unleash the next wave of global growth.
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Evaluating Social Innovation
Hallie Preskill, Tanya Beer
Developmental evaluation offers a new approach to evaluating social innovations in complex, multi-actor, and dynamic environments.
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Measuring Shared Value
Michael E. Porter, Greg Hills, Marc Pfitzer, Sonja Patscheke, Elizabeth Hawkins
This article presents a new framework for measuring shared value.
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Creating Shared Value in India
Veronica Borgonovi, Simon Meier, Manjari Sharda, Lalitha Vaidyanathan
“Creating shared value” is gaining traction worldwide; examine how companies in India are contributing to inclusive growth – and gaining competitive advantage.
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FSG and SSIR Collective Impact Conference
A cross-section of senior-level participants from nonprofits, foundations, corporations, and the government came together to explore the opportunities and challenges of engaging in collective impact initiatives.
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What Is Collective Impact?
This series of short videos describes the concept of collective impact, and shows the 5 conditions of collective impact in action using The Elizabeth River Project and The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) as examples.
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Shared Value in Emerging Markets
Greg Hills, Patty Russell, Veronica Borgonovi, Alex Doty, Lakshmi Iyer
Innovative business strategies can create sustainable impact at scale for poor or vulnerable individuals.
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Creating Shared Value Roundtable
Executives from leading corporations talk about Creating Shared Value in
these interviews with FSG's Mark Kramer, and
representatives from Western Union,
Dow Chemical, Cisco, Medtronic, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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Do More Than Give
Leslie Crutchfield, John Kania, Mark Kramer
This book provides a blueprint for foundation leaders, trustees, and individual donors who want to catalyze change in the world.
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School Turnaround Field Guide
Jeff Kutash, Eva Nico, Emily Gorin, Samira Rahmatullah, Kate Tallant
This report offers a field assessment of actors, issues, key gaps and early lessons learned in turning around failing schools.
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Nestlé: Shared Value
FSG was engaged to research and identify how Nestlé creates value for
society through its business and social engagement initiatives.
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Roundtable on Shared Value
Mark Kramer, John Kania
Executives from 10 major corporations gathered in New York City to
discuss the innovative ways that they are putting societal issues at the
core of their companies’ strategy and operations.
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Keeping the Promise of Opportunity
Jeff Cohen, Fay Hanleybrown, Mukta Pandit, Kate Tallant
This report provides recommendations on how to redesign the financial aid system to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults.
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Trustee Evaluation Toolkit
Mark Kramer, Eva Nico, Samantha Nobles-Block
Trustees and foundations need innovative evaluation approaches to make strategic decisions, better plan work, improve implementation and track progress.
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Nestlé: CSR Framework
Nestlé sought to further sharpen its social engagement with a thorough review of its current activities, the development of a high-level framework that might guide its future activities and the opportunity to identify new ways of aligning social and business objectives.
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Smallholder Farmer Development: International Donor Funding Trends
Marc Pfitzer, Valerie Bockstette, Simon Meier, Jessica Davies
Agricultural development, and more specifically, the critical role of smallholder farmers, has received renewed attention from the global community in the past few years. Smallholders represent one of the world's most exciting and important development opportunities.
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Catalytic Philanthropy Video
Despite spending vast amounts of money, philanthropists have fallen far short of solving America’s most pressing problems. What we need: Catalytic Philanthropy.
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Focusing on What Matters Webinar
Soliciting input from stakeholders early on in the evaluation
process results in more successfully involving stakeholders for
improving program effectiveness, affecting policy decisions, and
instituting behavioral change.
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Knight Foundation Client Video
Mayur Patel, VP of Strategy and Assessment at Knight Foundation, discusses working with FSG on a developmental evaluation of their Community News and Information project.
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Communicating Education Metrics
Jason Lee, Hallie Preskill, Rebecca Graves
New research highlights eight innovative tools that allow users to communicate social metrics effectively to a wide range of users.
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Pfizer: Africa Platform
Pfizer engaged FSG to help develop a shared value strategy in Africa to
better align Pfizer’s market interests and social investment activities.
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Leading Boldly
Ronald Heifetz, John Kania, Mark Kramer
Foundations can enhance the impact of their traditional approaches to social change by harnessing imaginative and even controversial leadership. This Stanford Social Innovation Review article focuses on how Adaptive Leadership can be applied to complex social challenges.
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Catalytic Philanthropy In India
Nidhi M. Reddy, Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Katyayani Balasubramanian, Kavitha Gorapalli, Sharad Sharma
This collaborative report from FSG and the Indian School of Business explores how India's largest givers can help solve critical social problems.
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A Market for Success
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.
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Microsoft Client Video
Ahktar Badshah, Senior Director of Community Affairs for Microsoft, talks about FSG’s work to develop a strategy for its global Community Technology Skills philanthropy program.
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Measuring Shared Value Webinar
This interactive webinar focused on the successes and challenges that
leading companies have faced incorporating measuring shared value
approaches into their business strategies.
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Lobbying for Good
Kyle Peterson, Marc Pfitzer
Companies are defying the stereotype that all corporate lobbying is self-interested by advocating for social issues that matter to business.
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Women's World Banking
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women’s World Banking, discusses working with FSG to develop a strategy for expansion of its microfinance network in Africa.
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The North Face: Shared Value Strategy
FSG was engaged by The North Face to develop a shared value strategy to further the
company’s outdoor participation efforts in order to drive greater social
impact while also creating business value.
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The Evaluation Matrix
Mark Kramer
Evaluation is one of the most confusing topics in philanthropy – in part because it embraces multiple definitions that are often jumbled together.
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PDP Access Strategies
Laura Herman, Amanda Oudin
This report highlights the current status of PDP access strategies, select access strategy challenges, and future considerations for improving access strategies
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Rwanda Works: Strategic Planning
FSG partnered with Rwanda Works, an organization that builds and manages competitive businesses and healthcare infrastructure, to develop a plan to pursue impact investing opportunities in Rwanda.
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga
Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.
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First, Make Money. Also, Do Good.
Steve Lohr
This New York Times article examines the concept of Creating Shared
Value and cites examples of corporations that are are pursuing the idea that profit-making
should be a priority of their social responsibility programs.
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Creating Sustainable Value
Stuart L. Hart & Mark B. Milstein
This report outlines a sustainable-value framework that links the challenges of global sustainability to the creation of shareholder value.
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Eli Lilly and Company: The Lilly NCD Partnership
Lilly engaged FSG to develop its new, signature corporate
responsibility initiative that would represent its evolving approach to
corporate responsibility, which includes a focus on catalyzing access to
healthcare, developing new models for effective care, and creating
shared value.
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Changing the Game
Mark Kramer, John Kania
Companies that get into the CSR game and play to win will reap disproportionate social impact, economic rewards, and reputational benefits.
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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.
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How to Fix Capitalism
Michael Porter
In this HBR Ideacast, Michael Porter discusses his article, Creating Share Value, about the next evolution of capitalism.
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Leadership Summit on
Creating Shared Value
More than 50 corporate, government, NGO and nonprofit executives gathered for stimulating conversations with Michael Porter, Jane Nelson, Mark Kramer, and each other to discuss strategies for managing and implementing CSV in their organizations.
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Opportunities for Foundation Leadership
Jeff Cohen, Nathalie Jones, Leslie Crutchfield
These three case studies show how community foundations, working to
create more informed and engaged communities, contributed to
transforming their own institutions.
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Swiss Re: Climate Change
Swiss Re engaged FSG to assess the opportunity to bring the topic of
climate change into U.S. public schools as an education module to build
youth’s understanding of the issue.
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Client Testimonial: Kara Helander
FSG staff listens carefully, relentlessly focuses on finding high impact
solutions, and is committed to delivering outstanding work. It is great
working with a strong team that is dedicated to making the world a
better place.
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The Evaluation of Capacity Building Grants
Rebecca Graves, Henry Culbreath
Many foundations now have programs
aimed at capacity building for their grantees. FSG's analysis of the
Maine Community Foundation (MCF) highlighted three basic lessons that can increase the likelihood of
success for
any capacity building initiative.
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Scaling Social Impact
Mark Kramer
The business metaphor has imprisoned much new thinking in the social sector – and the limitations are most apparent in this widespread ambition, shared by many funders and nonprofit leaders alike, of “going to scale” through rapid organizational growth.
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Benchmarking Philanthropy
John Kania
Benchmarking philanthropic performance against industry peers is
extremely helpful in finding ways to increase both the business and
social benefit of every dollar the company contributes.
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Mixed Motives
Mark Kramer
Any donor's giving has multiple motivations. In this piece, Kramer
argues that there are three primary motivational categories of giving and that by establishing budgets for each type
and consciously considering one's motivations, donors can
improve their impact.
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Managing for Learning and Impact
Stef Steyaert, Mark Hongenaert, Tinne Vandensande, Wouter Van den Berghe, Valerie Bockstette, Marc Pfitzer, Hallie Preskill
Over the past three years, the King Baudouin Foundation has developed a more systematic approach for the evaluation of its projects, which FSG helped codify in the KBF Project Management Guide: ‘Managing for Learning and Impact’.
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Mattel: Creating Shared Value
Mattel engaged FSG to develop a strategy for creating shared value that
would generate meaningful ways to create positive impact for society
while also driving new business opportunities.
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Road Map Project Wins $40M Race to the Top Award!
This group of school districts (and many other partner organizations,
unions, mayors, community agencies, housing authorities, educators, and
parents) actively work together as part of a Collective Impact effort
that FSG helped to design and launch.
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Museum Evaluation Without Borders
Hallie Preskill
This article invites readers to think outside of evaluation’s current boundaries and to see the deep connectedness between what museums hope to achieve and how we evaluate the extent to which these aspirations may be realized.
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Webinar zum Thema Evaluation
Valerie Bockstette
Valerie Bockstette und Barbara Buchsteiner, Leiterin der AG Evaluation
in der BürgerStiftung Hamburg, beschreiben ihren lernorientierten
Evaluationsansatz.
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Catalytic Philanthropy Webinar Presentation
Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer, Tom Siebel (Siebel Foundation)
and Diana Aviv (Independent Sector) explore how catalytic
philanthropists will be able to see measurable impact from their efforts
and have the potential to change social conditions meaningfully.
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Client Testimonial: Christoph Schmocker
FSG understands both the entrepreneurial side of philanthropy and how
grantmaking works. They bring together business strategy and a grand
vision for improving the world. Other firms just don’t bring both. The
team was multi-cultural, which was wonderful. They listen, question and
are empathetic. They also show deep respect for other cultures and could
work with our grantees in both Switzerland and developing countries.
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NS Raghavan on Way to Change Indian Philanthropy
Naren Karunakaran
Nadathur S. Raghavan's plan to chaperone Indian philanthropy from a charitable,
crisis-alleviation mode to a sector that can take on larger developmental issues. The emphasis of his strategy is to engender transformational change through collective impact.
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Strategy & Society Podcast
Mark Kramer
In this podcast from Harvard Business
Online, Mark R. Kramer, talks about
his article authored with Professor Michael E. Porter, in which they introduced their groundbreaking approach to corporate social responsibility
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CSR - A Religion with Too Many Priests?
Michael Porter
In this interview, Michael Porter discusses corporate philanthropy, the implications for corporate competitiveness and calls for academics to provide a conceptual framework for the topic.
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The Networked Nonprofit
Jane Wei-Skillern and Sonia Marciano
The success of some networked nonprofits suggests that organizations should focus less
on growing themselves and more on cultivating their networks.
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When Success is Only an Intermediate Goal
Kyle Peterson, Laura Herman, Matthew Clark
This article describes FSG’s work with Medicines for Malaria Ventures (MMV), which led to a broadened definition of success, a deepened perspective on MMV’s core mission, and new approach to performance management.
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Client Testimonial: Josh Edelman
FSG was an invaluable resource in assisting us in refining our mission,
quantifiable objectives and action plans. Their team was incredibly
focused on meeting our individualized needs while pushing us to think
critically about our work.
FSG’s customer service, diligence, flexibility and willingness to ask
hard questions helped us become a stronger, more focused division that
more closely aligns our work to the needs of the schools we serve.
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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.
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Creating Shared Value
Michael Porter
In this podcast from the BBC World Service Global Business Program,
Michael Porter discusses his article, Creating Shared Value, which may herald the new way forward for capitalism.
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FSG Testimonial: Greg Hills
Working at FSG is both intellectually challenging and personally rewarding, because we have an opportunity to apply rigorous analysis and strategic thinking toward addressing the most challenging social issues facing our world today.
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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.
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Social Innovation Inc. by Jason Saul
Based on four years of measuring the social strategies of America's
leading corporations, Jason Saul lays out the five strategies for social
innovation and offers a practical roadmap for how to get started.
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Client Testimonial: Jacob Kumaresan
FSG’s strengths are strategy development, a flexible approach and
high-caliber consultants. They helped us to develop a strategic plan
that outlined a short-term plan, and offered options for our long-term
strategy. The collaboration was extremely valuable: the ideas will
sustain our organization, and the process ensured that our entire staff
has a stake in our vision.
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Paying the Price of Innovation
Mark Kramer, John Kania
Our communities would be poorer were community foundations to forego the
rich range of services they provide. On the other hand, community
foundations cannot be expected to sustain these services without paying
for them somehow.
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Corporate Philanthropy - Taking the High Ground
Michael Porter
Much of corporate social responsibility is defensive
– it is about preventing abuses or mitigating harm. Corporate
philanthropy, in contrast, is essentially affirmative. It is about using
corporate resources to create social value.
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Moving From Insight to Action
Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer shares specific examples of nonprofits that have turned evaluations into
opportunities for synergy and creativity in this podcast from the Stanford Discussions series.
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Making Informed Decisions in Uncertain Times
Wendy Horton, Valerie Bockstette, Melissa Scott
How do community foundations respond to volatile financial markets and
bearish economic indicators? This report identifies strategies and
recommendations for responding to the economic downturn.
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Client Testimonial: Pyper Davis
FSG has been more than a consultant for SEED – they have been a
partner and an ‘owner’ for a critical programmatic strategy effort. The
FSG team led an intensive research effort and then customized the
findings into relevant and practical strategies.
The team was knowledgeable and connected with highly relevant sources
in the education field. FSG’s work will certainly have a positive
social impact for both current and future SEED students and alumni!
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Client Testimonial: Eric Paisner
FSG’s consultants are smart, incredibly hard working, and committed to
driving social change. When we engaged FSG to study scalable charter
support services, they made sure we did not overlook the opportunity to
improve academic outcomes as we sought to improve operational
efficiencies. The willingness to challenge our thinking improved our
potential impact.
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Client Testimonial: Steve Kelmar
I was thoroughly impressed by the hard work, outreach, teamwork and professionalism of the FSG team in the course of providing a strategic review of Merck's philanthropy. This is groundbreaking for us, and will take the Merck Foundation and related philanthropic giving to a new level.
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Client Testimonial: Tracy Sims
FSG staff are trusted advisers on our most complex corporate
responsibility issues. They have a unique capability to equally assess
business and social issues, produce actionable recommendations and
provide experienced guidance on implementation.
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Client Testimonial: Fred Heldenfels
FSG provided us with both objective and data-driven analysis on our
short-term objectives and long-term vision, and assisted us in
successfully meeting our goals on time, despite an aggressive timeline.
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Client Testimonial: Wynn Rosser
FSG led Greater Texas Foundation through an intensive, six-month strategic planning process that resulted in a revised mission and vision and a plan that our board and staff actually use to guide our work everyday.
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FSG Testimonial: Kyle Peterson2
We’ve just passed the ten year mark on Millennium Development Goals. The social sector has invested huge sums of money into partnerships and learning but we still have a long way to go. We need to press even harder in technology, scale, and efficiency -- to close the gap in the next five years.
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FSG Testimonial: Lalitha Vaidyanathan
It is a privilege to be at FSG and be part of the movement to bring powerful ideas like Shared Value, Catalytic Philanthropy and Collective Impact to the social sector. It is what gets me up every day and keeps me inspired.
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Fixing Capitalism
Michael Porter
In this podcast from NPR's On Point program, Michael Porter and Robert Reich discuss shared value and how to fix capitalism.
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Doing More With Less
Mark Kramer, Sarah Cooch, Owen Stearns
How one financial services company dramatically enhanced its social
impact by focusing less than half of its giving on a strategic
initiative.
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Client Testimonial: David Etzwiler
Our experience with FSG was nothing short of exceptional. They are world
class advisors that partnered with us to transform the role of
corporate citizenship within the company. We're moving faster than ever
before…and we're grateful to them!
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Client Testimonial: Akhtar Badshah
FSG helped us develop one unified strategy and message which would not get lost in all the details of our work: Microsoft is in the business of helping you get into jobs by
providing you with training.
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FSG Testimonial: Robert Albright
The evaluation projects I’ve worked on at FSG have been very rewarding. I
enjoy the rigorous approach we take in serving our clients on
evaluation projects, whether it’s designing an evaluation system,
analyzing grantee survey data, or conducting in-depth interviews of
local community leaders.
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Due Diligence Done Well
The guide underlines the value of a streamlined approach to due
diligence that balances a grantmaker’s information needs with the added
burden on the grantee.
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Helping to Prevent a Culture of Inadequacy
Mark Kramer
Foundations often complain about the inefficiency and “lack of scale” that characterize many of the small organizations they support. Yet seldom do they recognize that
their own philosophy of giving may be one cause of the problem.
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Client Testimonial: Marco Ferroni
The FSG team was willing to go the extra mile with my team to explain the context for our review. They are very resourceful when it comes to data, go beyond what is expected, and are congenial co-partners in the work.
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Client Testimonial: Courtney Welsh
Selecting FSG for our strategic positioning project was the right
choice. They came with a lot of background knowledge about our field
and were able to learn the specifics of our organization and context
very quickly.
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Interactive Strategy Model
The Interactive
Strategy Model (ISM) helps community foundations model the impact of
strategic changes on their economics. The materials, hosted on the CF
Insights website, include a User Guide, Tools and Surveys.
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SAP: Creating a High Impact CSR Portfolio
FSG was engaged to help SAP create a high impact CSR portfolio through a
series of engagements, including developing a global shared value
initiative, refining its regional CSR strategies, and designing a
measurement framework to help CSR understand and track the business and
social impact of its work.
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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.
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Client Testimonial: Josh Ruxin
FSG advised Rwanda Works on business strategies to complement our health work. We wrote a plan together, founded Rwanda Ventures and recently opened up Kivu Dairy. We are now selling 1,000 liters of milk daily to the country's largest dairy processor and will soon be able to start financing a portion of our health work going forward.
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Client Testimonial: April Chou
FSG was able to partner with us at multiple levels — they quickly assembled a team that understood the nuances of our sector, engaged with us to develop case studies and knowledge featuring our portfolio organizations, and helped raise important strategic questions about our work, based on an evaluation and input from our key partners and stakeholders.
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FSG Testimonial: Hallie Preskill
Evaluation is my passion – it is rooted in an unshakeable belief that by asking questions that matter, evaluation can help organizations achieve their goals. At FSG, we experiment, create and explore – to ensure that evaluation always leads to learning and impact.
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Client Testimonial: Justin Cohen
FSG analyzes problems and solutions from all angles. They are a rare
firm that strives to understand the breadth of an issue and how
different organizations and strategies fit into the big picture. Their
Guide to School Turnaround brings together stakeholders and ideas from
all corners of the field, providing a valuable signpost for both
existing organizations and new market entrants.
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Client Testimonial: Jane Nelson
FSG brings together talented individuals from the usually segregated
worlds of strategic management consulting, philanthropy, social
investment and international development. They offer creative solutions
to complex problems that span the traditional boundaries of private
profit and public interest.
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FSG Testimonial: Nathalie Jones
My experience developing the Practical Guide to Engaging Stakeholders in Developing Evaluation Questions has become central to how I think about our approach to evaluation. Talking with evaluation experts in the field of health and healthcare illuminated the importance of bringing multiple voices and points of view to the table as an evaluation’s purpose is being defined."
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Client Testimonial: Anne Vally
FSG's research on sustainability has been both provocative and extremely
meaningful. The FSG team has made complex information quite
understandable to our grantees, and their collegiality, professionalism
and willingness to actively share resources have made them an integral
part of the effort.
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Client Testimonial: Achim Steiner
We have repeatedly used FSG's services in scoping out key changes in
management processes and strategies. Their analytical and empirical
resources, and highly responsive staff enable us to rapidly conclude
those exercises.
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Client Testimonial: Brian Byrnes
FSG was incredibly generous with their time, insights and resources, and, while providing high quality data and great advice, they also gave us plenty of room to develop a strategy that was really right for us. FSG has added significant value to our community foundation, indeed, the entire field of community foundations during this time of progress into a pivotal new era of community philanthropy.
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Client Testimonial: Eileen Quinn
We were very pleased with FSG’s work on a landscape scan of political
perceptions of diarrheal disease within the global health agenda. Their
analysis and insights illuminated obstacles, as well as opportunities
for elevating the issue, and gaining more support. Their findings and
recommendations became the basis for our multi-year advocacy and
communications strategy.
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Client Testimonial: René Didi
FSG has allowed us to move from an approach to philanthropy and CSR that
was driven by specific legal obligations to a structured and effective
policy of social engagement. This is a tremendous result!
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FSG Testimonial: Dana Yonchak
The energy that runs through FSG is palpable. If there is anything our team loves to do, it's to approach complex and long-standing social problems with creativity, vitality, heart and mind. That's a typical day here.
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Client Testimonial: Susan Dawson
Our board really appreciated engaging with FSG to perform a comprehensive strategic planning project for E3 Alliance. The team was knowledgeable, creative and responsive. We came away with strong and actionable recommendations and felt like it was a great investment of our limited funds. I would definitely recommend them to others!
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FSG Testimonial: Laura Herman2
FSG offers a unique viewpoint on global health problems and opportunities. Combining our research with the mix of perspectives from our clients - private funders, corporations, governments and implementing organizations - allows us to improve health outcomes for the poor around the world.
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Client Testimonial: Wendy Ault
They were willing to be part of our organization for six months. The
people we met through interviews and focus groups – from Ph.D.s to those
without their GED – still ask about FSG.
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Client Testimonial: Crystal Hayling
FSG staff were knowledgeable, capable and willing to go the extra mile. They helped our team capture data, synthesize our discussions, and prepare for presentations with our trustees. All in all, they were an excellent partner for developing our foundation’s strategic direction. Together, we created a strategic plan for our foundation that is ambitious, yet grounded in reality.
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FSG Testimonial: Mark Kramer2
"The social sector is evolving in very rapid and fundamental ways. I believe the next 10 years will show more progress in solving the world’s social problems than we have seen in the past 50 years."
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Grantmakers Shouldn't Play with Matches
Mark Kramer
Making a matching grant seems like the easiest way for a foundation to
get the most “leverage” from its giving. However, the
leverage, or added value, of a matching grant is often only illusory.
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Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau
Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau is an in-depth exploration
of how middle-class parenting styles lead to fundamentally different
opportunities for their children than the parenting styles of
working-class and poor families.
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Client Testimonial: Mary Ellen Iskenderian
FSG was critical in helping us develop a strategy for expansion, based
on our unique resources and experience in microfinance. The team
provided a rigorous framework that would allow us to expand, while
keeping our focus on providing financial services for women. FSG
exceeded our expectations.
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Client Testimonial: Klaus Leisinger
We benefited greatly from the strategic advice provided by FSG. It is always beneficial to have ‘out of the box’ voices when evaluating the status quo and the future direction of any institution.
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Client Testimonial: Ronald Richard
We have retained FSG over the past few years for a variety of projects
on governance, evaluation, financial modeling and strategic planning. We
have always been exceedingly pleased with their work. They understand
the community foundation field, and they have consistently helped our
Board and staff to think creatively and rigorously about how we can
continually and significantly improve our own performance.
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IGLHRC: Monitoring and Evaluation System
FSG worked with IGLHRC to develop a monitoring and evaluation system
that allows IGLHRC to engage in collaborative and learning-oriented
monitoring and evaluation that guides internal decision making and
informs conversations with external stakeholders about IGLHRC’s
influence, effects, and impact.
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Client Testimonial: Thomas Peters
Engaging. Insightful. Thoughtful. FSG brought these qualities and more to a collaborative effort of trustees, staff and community members in development of our Foundation’s five-year strategic plan. They are an absolutely terrific team.
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Canaliser le changement: Comment réussir l’impact collectif
Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, Mark Kramer
Cet article fait suite à l’article initial de FSG paru dans le numéro Hiver 2011 de la Stanford Social Innovation Review. Il explore de nouveaux exemples d’impact collectif tout en donnant des conseils pratiques pour ceux cherchant à initier ou mener une telle initiative.
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Focusing on What Matters Presentation
This presentation was created for the Focusing on What Matters webinar which brought to life the step-by-step stakeholder engagement process described in
A Practical Guide for Engaging
Stakeholders in Developing Evaluation Questions.
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Sarah’s Key is the kind of book that makes you want to stay up
all night because you just can't put it down! The narrative is told from
two different perspectives. The first character is a 10-year-old girl
who survived the French concentration camps in 1942; the other character
is a woman living in present-day France.
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Measuring Shared Value Presentation
This presentation was created for the Measuring Shared Value webinar
which focused on the successes and challenges that leading companies have
faced incorporating measuring shared value approaches into their
business strategies.
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Sustainable Capitalism
This report makes the economic case for mainstreaming Sustainable Capitalism by
highlighting the fact that it does not represent a trade-off with profit
maximization but instead actually fosters superior long-term value
creation.
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Do More Than Give
Leslie Crutchfield
This podcast features Leslie Crutchfield in conversation with Chicke
Fitzgerald about how high-impact donors can catalyze change in the world on this Rock the World Enterprises radio blog.
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