Discovering better ways to solve social problems

Private Foundations

Kids looking at a ray in an aquarium.FSG partners with private foundations to develop and refine strategies, and evaluate programmatic approaches to heighten impact in the communities they serve.

Project Spotlight

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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation: Evaluation and Strategy Support for the Marine Fisheries Program

FSG provided strategy, learning, and evaluation support for fifteen grantee NGOs of the Packard Foundation Marine Fisheries Program.

The Ford Family Foundation: Grant Strategy

The Ford Family Foundation sought guidance in reassessing priorities for its responsive grant program, as well as in further developing its proactive grant program.

Greater Texas Foundation: Strategic Planning

Greater Texas Foundation (GTF) engaged FSG to develop a five year strategic plan designed to increase the Foundation’s impact on student education outcomes in Texas.

Knowledge Spotlight

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Do More Than Give

Leslie Crutchfield, John Kania, Mark Kramer

imageThis book provides a blueprint for foundation leaders, trustees, and individual donors who want to catalyze change in the world.

Do More Than Give
Book
Do More Than Give
Video

Collective Impact

Mark Kramer, John Kania

imageLarge-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Collective Impact
Article
Collective Impact Video
Video
Collective Impact Conference
Event

Trustee Evaluation Toolkit

Mark Kramer, Eva Nico, Samantha Nobles-Block

imageTrustees and foundations need innovative evaluation approaches to make strategic decisions, better plan work, improve implementation and track progress.

Trustee Evaluation Toolkit
Report
Trustee Evaluation Toolkit Survey
Toolkit
Trustee Evaluation Toolkit Webinar
Webinar

From Our Clients

"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."

- Anne Vally,
Special Initiatives Officer
The James Irvine Foundation

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