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- Corporate/CSR, Global Health, U.S. Health
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.
Saving the Lives of the Under Fives
June 19, 2012If you have ever worried about your own sick child, you can appreciate how frantic, desperate and helpless you would feel if you lived in the handful of countr…
Making Collective Impact Work: Discipline, Adaptability, and Sitting Down to Family Dinner
June 18, 2012Hello Fellow Fans of Collective Impact!
Is This the Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy?
June 12, 2012In his Spring 2012 Stanford Social Innovation Review column on “A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy,” Paul Brest, the outgoing president of the William a…
Sticker Shock at the Mailbox
June 11, 2012“You have GOT to be kidding me!” I muttered, as I juggled my cell phone, grocery bag, purse, and bike helmet to open the medical bill that just arrived in my m…
Collective Impact in the UK
June 7, 2012Over at the Guardian website, Tim Cooper has an interesting post pointing to STRIVE (one of the examples of collective impact that my colleagues John Kania and…
Funding Successful Collaborations
June 4, 2012Professor Wei-Skillern’s decade of research on successful nonprofit collaborations highlights key success factors that closely align with the behavioral change…
Collective Impact, Metaphorically Speaking
May 28, 2012FSGers have been traveling the world talking about collective impact with various audiences. When we speak about the fact that isolated impact – while well int…
Making Shared Measurement Work
May 23, 2012I have been excited to hear about many of the collective impact initiatives going on across the country and around the world as a way to address complex social…
Signs of System Change
May 21, 2012Society is beginning to recognize that the problems we face- hunger, homelessness, poverty, disease- are systemic in nature. These problems involve a group of …
Celebrating Success Loudly
April 23, 2012Recently, I was talking with members of a Collective Impact steering committee. FSG has been involved with the effort—helping to facilitate and guide the work—…