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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.

Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Learning in a Time of Crisis
April 7, 2020
Hallie Preskill Joelle Cook
Many philanthropic organizations are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by developing rapid-response funding mechanisms, resources, and revised grant policie…
Corporate/CSR Shared Value U.S. Health
What Can We Learn from Early Corporate Responses to COVID-19?
April 2, 2020
Lakshmi Iyer
In my current role at FSG, I provide thought partnership to business leaders on the most effective ways to create social impact. I rely on our two decades of …
Education & Youth Foundation Strategy U.S. Health
Quakes and Tremors: What Foundations Can Do to Safeguard Childhood Wellbeing in the Wake of a Pandemic
March 31, 2020
Ursula Wright
The world is experiencing a series of quakes and tremors caused by a global pandemic. The quakes are the unprecedented shocks and strains we are witnessing in…
Foundation Strategy
Pandemics and Perpetuity
March 26, 2020
Joelle Cook
As I write, Congress seems likely to approve a two-trillion dollar economic stimulus bill in response to COVID-19. Entire states are being ordered to shelter i…
Foundation Strategy
Foundations: Use Your Balance Sheet to Help
March 23, 2020
Mark Kramer
During this massive economic upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, government and media attention is focused on the impact on businesses, financial markets…
Corporate/CSR Global Health Shared Value U.S. Health
COVID-19 and Corporate Purpose—Four Ways Businesses Can Respond Now
March 12, 2020
Greg Hills
The continuous COVID-19 developments are both dizzying and daunting. Countries and communities alike are grappling with strained health systems and strict cont…
Economic Development Gender
Can Snow Clearing Be Sexist?
March 6, 2020
Flynn Lebus Laura Amaya Talia Alongi
“It all started as a joke…” So begins the first chapter of Caroline Criado Perez’s book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. “At l…
Foundation Strategy Global Health U.S. Health
COVID-19⁠—Seven Things Philanthropy Can Do
March 2, 2020
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
As governments, businesses, and individuals scramble to respond to the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic, those of us who work in the social sector rightly ask wh…
Corporate/CSR Shared Value
Using Shared Value for Climate Action
February 18, 2020
Carina Wendel
A look into FSG’s project with Swedish construction company OBOS
Foundation Strategy
The Importance of Framing for Foundations Engaging on Equity
February 4, 2020
John Harper
A senior leader from a small family foundation recently told me the story of when her organization first began conversations about racial equity and its role i…

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