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How Community Foundations Can Better Coordinate Responses to Disasters

Last month, Hurricane Michael devastated and left a trail of destruction along Florida and Georgia. Two months ago, Hurricane Florence left the Carolinas under water. Last year, Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast, Houston, and its surrounding areas, creating a... Read more

Moving Beyond Trade-offs in Impact Investing

In the fast-growing impact investing sector, a contentious debate has been brewing. Does genuine impact always require a sacrifice of financial returns? Or should impact investing always seek market-rate returns, accepting activist-musician Bono’s... Read more

Creating Consensus with Targeted Universalism

A collaborative effort, driven by a diverse group of stakeholders united behind a common goal, can serve as a catalyst for addressing inequities at a systems level. But beneath the unity of purpose, initial disagreement can arise when stakeholders have to decide... Read more

A Call for Philanthropy to Invest in Rural America

The overwhelming focus of welfare programs in the United States is urban, but the fact that a rural child is more than twice as likely as an urban child to live in the vicinity of persistent high child poverty underscores that any national discussion of child... Read more

Collective Impact: "A Really Good Thing Happening in America"

In his column in the New York Times, David Brooks writes about StriveTogether and the concept of collective impact that FSG’s Mark Kramer and John Kania named and... Read more

Three Lessons for Creating More Sustainable Smallholder Supply Chains

The sustainability of smallholder supply chains is top of mind for corporate leaders in the food and agriculture sectors, whether they are consumer-facing companies or suppliers and exporters of tea, cocoa, coffee, hazelnuts, meat, dairy, palm oil, and many other crops and products. Ensuring the... Read more

Companies Changing Colombia through Shared Value

The Empresas INspiradoras list recognizes companies operating in Colombia that are adopting a shared value approach. FSG worked closely with Colombian National Industry Association (ANDI) to develop a set of... Read more

How Corporate Foundations and CSR Initiatives are ‘Being the Change’

As corporate philanthropy and CSR initiatives experiment with new and more strategic ways to maximize impact on the issues they care about, organizations are increasingly making internal changes.

Earlier this year, FSG published... Read more

What Business Leaders Wish NGOs Knew about Transformative Partnerships

As a leader of an NGO, you know that public, nonprofit, philanthropic, and private actors must work together to make progress on the most pressing global issues. In fact, you probably have a few companies you’d like to approach to talk about a partnership that will... Read more

The Gender Diversity and Inclusion Imperative: An Interview with Inez Murray

The Global Banking Alliance for Women (GBA) is a peer learning network of financial services providers working around the world to tap into the power of the women’s market. Led by Inez Murray, the GBA’s Chief Executive Officer, the organization launched a Working Group on gender diversity and... Read more

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