FSG’s Education & Youth team partners with foundations, university systems, national nonprofits, school districts, and corporations to improve academic and developmental outcomes for youth. We help our clients develop and evaluate strategies that support children along the cradle to career continuum.

Education & Youth Projects
- Active Schools
Increasing physical education and activity in schools. - Early Matters
Accelerating progress on early childhood education in Houston, Texas. - Hampton Roads Community Foundation
Read the report on FSG’s work with the Minus 9 to 5’s early childhood initiative. - Grand Rapids Community Foundation
Assessing the Challenge Scholars program to improve college access. - Statewide Collective Impact Reform for Juvenile Justice
The New York State Juvenile Justice System. - See more education & youth projects >
Expertise
- Strategic and business planning
- Evaluation and organizational learning
- Workshop facilitation
- Collective impact structuring and coaching
- Systems change structuring and coaching
Our work spans the education continuum and includes:
- Early care and education
- K-12 (including out of school time)
- Postsecondary education
- Workforce development
- Juvenile justice
- Corporate involvement in education
Our board really appreciated engaging with FSG to perform a comprehensive strategic planning project. The team was knowledgeable, creative, and responsive. We came away with strong, actionable recommendations, and felt like it was a great investment of our limited funds.Susan Dawson, Executive Director, E3 Alliance
FSG let us be very involved all along the way and they were open to our feedback. That collaboration made us feel very confident that we would not end up with an evaluation that in some way could be misread. They were very collaborative, very responsible, and very responsive.Lisa Goldschmidt, Director, Digital
Student Achievement Partners
Our board really appreciated engaging with FSG to perform a comprehensive strategic planning project. The team was knowledgeable, creative, and responsive. We came away with strong, actionable recommendations, and felt like it was a great investment of our limited funds.
Susan Dawson, Executive Director, E3 Alliance
FSG let us be very involved all along the way and they were open to our feedback. That collaboration made us feel very confident that we would not end up with an evaluation that in some way could be misread. They were very collaborative, very responsible, and very responsive.
Lisa Goldschmidt, Director, Digital
Student Achievement Partners
Student Achievement Partners
Research and Tools
- Improving the Odds
Seven principles for investing in early care and education. - Role of Networks in Advancing Personalized Learning
Why networks matter for the personalized learning sector. - Self-Directed Learning at Summit Public Schools
A case study on the whole-school model to put student agency and self-direction at the center. - A Market for Success
How a robust service provider market can help community colleges deliver success. - Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth
A proven framework for communities to improve outcomes for Opportunity Youth, the nearly 7 million Americans between 16 and 24 who are neither employed nor in school. - See all education and youth resources >
- Education and youth blog >