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The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress

The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…

Foundation Strategy

Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders

Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.

Inclusive Markets
Running on Empty: Challenges Faced by Private Pit Emptiers in Urban Uganda
October 26, 2020
Vignesh Shankar Rahul Singh
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 populati…
Inclusive Markets
Developing a Market-Based Approach to Sanitation in Uganda
October 22, 2020
Puneet Goenka Vignesh Shankar
Household sanitation is a longstanding development priority for the government of Uganda. There has been a significant reduction in open defecation (from 12% i…
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy
SSIR Blog: What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital
October 20, 2020
Harvey Koh
In a post on Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG's Harvey Koh writes about how the catalytic capital questions of development finance institutions, private …
Shared Value
Economics of Impact: Unlocking Purpose-Led Performance Management
October 8, 2020
Marc Pfitzer Mark Kramer Helge Mahne
With increasing recognition that markets today create wealth and positive social impact inequitably and deplete or degrade natural resources, more companies mu…
Thank You, Lauren Smith
September 24, 2020
Greg Hills
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…
A New Role
September 24, 2020
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
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 excite…
Corporate/CSR Shared Value
Change the World—for Whom? Why Addressing Racism Must be a Top Corporate Priority
September 21, 2020
Nikhil Bumb Chris Carlson Lakshmi Iyer
This blog was originally posted on Fortune.com on September 21, 2020.2020 has tested many corporations’ aspirations to be a force for social good. As we recogn…
Inclusive Markets
Impact Investment Opportunities in India for Catalytic Investors
September 4, 2020
Sujata Rathi Johan Thuard Ashish Karamchandani
India has a dynamic impact investing market, with many investors—from philanthropic foundations, to impact investors, to commercial investors—seeking to genera…
Inclusive Markets Nonprofits/NGOs
The Opportunity of a Lifetime for HNIs—Saving the Indian NGO Sector
July 20, 2020
Abhishek Khanna Ashish Karamchandani Rishabh Shroff Tanmay Patnaik
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, reli…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation U.S. Health
Big Sky Thinking: A Look at How the Headwaters Foundation Centered Trust in Their Evaluation and Learning Practices
July 9, 2020
Joelle Cook Aditi Luminet Lolita Castrique-Meier Abigail Ridgway

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