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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.

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…
Collective Impact Shared Value
How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems
January 23, 2020
Mark Kramer Marc Pfitzer Helge Mahne
Corporate/CSR Gender Shared Value U.S. Health
The Business Case for Reproductive Health
January 21, 2020
Nina Harstad Neeraja Bhavaraju
Women now make up more than half of the United States workforce, increasingly represented in roles from the frontline to the C-suite. In a highly competitive t…
Corporate/CSR Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
Top Reads from 2019
December 16, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH Greg Hills
As FSG enters its 20th year of supporting social impact funders and leaders across sectors, we are appreciative of our clients and partners around the world. Y…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Three Ways Funders Can Be Co-Strategists
November 26, 2019
John Harper
Last week, a few of my colleagues and I had the pleasure of attending Change Philanthropy’s Unity Summit, a biennial gathering that now brings together more th…
Corporate/CSR
Are You Ready for a World of Purpose-Led Companies?
November 22, 2019
Marc Pfitzer
We’re reaching a tipping point in purpose-led companies, as governments, investors and consumers increasingly indicate that they prefer companies that address …
Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
How Do You Evaluate Systems Change? A Place to Start.
November 22, 2019
Joelle Cook Hallie Preskill
Systems change has received much attention in recent years as grantmakers have increasingly set out to change underlying conditions that hold systemic challeng…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Advancing Systems Change with Southeastern Council of Foundations
November 19, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH Ursula Wright Abigail Ridgway
Last week, FSG was pleased to join the 50th-anniversary Southeastern Council of Foundations conference for a workshop with representatives from 60 foundations …
Collective Impact Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking U.S. Health
Lauren Smith Joins the Business of Giving Podcast
November 14, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
Lauren Smith, Co-CEO of FSG, recently joined Denver Frederick, Host of The Business of Giving on AM 970 The Answer WNYM in New York City. The interview also ap…

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