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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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