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Running on Empty: Challenges Faced by Private Pit Emptiers in Urban Uganda

By 2050, over two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. However, water and sanitation services are often unable to keep pace with population growth in rapidly urbanizing cities, leading to deteriorating health conditions.... Read more

Developing a Market-Based Approach to Sanitation in Uganda

Household sanitation is a longstanding development priority for the government of Uganda. There has been a significant reduction in open defecation (from 12% in 2000 to 7% in 2015¹). However, access to basic sanitation... Read more

SSIR Blog: What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital

In a post on Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG's Harvey Koh writes about how the catalytic capital questions of development finance institutions, private foundations, and other types of investors must be answered... Read more

Economics of Impact: Unlocking Purpose-Led Performance Management

With increasing recognition that markets today create wealth and positive social impact inequitably and deplete or degrade natural resources, more companies must rethink their purpose and strategies in order to provide real and lasting solutions to these substantial problems. In the process,... Read more

Thank You, Lauren Smith

To FSG’s stakeholders around the world:

With mixed emotions, I want to share with you all that my fellow co-CEO, Dr. Lauren A. Smith, will be stepping down from her role at FSG in early October.

Lauren will be joining the CDC Foundation as Chief Health Equity Strategy Officer, a... Read more

A New Role

Moving on from a role I have enjoyed is always difficult because I am flooded with so many memories of meaningful experiences, even as I feel a sense of excitement for what comes next. So it is with those mixed emotions that I share that I will be leaving FSG to start in a new role as Chief... Read more

Change the World—for Whom? Why Addressing Racism Must be a Top Corporate Priority

2020 has tested many corporations’ aspirations to be a force for social good. As we recognize this year’s Change the World list, we’re inspired by the many companies rising to the biggest challenges of our time, including the... Read more

Impact Investment Opportunities in India for Catalytic Investors

India has a dynamic impact investing market, with many investors—from philanthropic foundations, to impact investors, to commercial investors—seeking to generate commercial, social, and environmental benefits from their investments. In addition, there are incubators, accelerators, networks, and... Read more

The Opportunity of a Lifetime for HNIs—Saving the Indian NGO Sector

The year 2020 will be etched in our memories for a long time. COVID-19 has blindsided most of us. The non-discriminating virus has not spared any country, religion, or occupation, and has impacted the lives of nearly every individual in the world.

Yet some have suffered more than others.... Read more

Big Sky Thinking: A Look at How the Headwaters Foundation Centered Trust in Their Evaluation and Learning Practices

In June 2019, FSG began work with the Headwaters Foundation—a health conversion foundation serving Western Montana—to build their strategic learning and evaluation system. As a new philanthropic entity, the foundation wanted to... Read more

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