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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.
Collective Impact Thinking in 2011
December 19, 2011The FSG team and our colleagues at nonprofits and foundations around the country have been thinking quite a bit about collective impact this year. Here is a re…
Cradle to Career Roadmap: Gates Blog Post
December 15, 2011For a real-time look at collective impact in action, please see our client Mary Jean Ryan’s recent Gates Foundation blog about the Road Map Project, a new coll…
Shaping the Collective Impact Learning Agenda
December 13, 2011FSG recently hosted a breakfast meeting with 15 funders that were attending the Independent Sector conference in Chicago. We organized the breakfast in respons…
Help Wanted: Dynamic Backbone Leader
November 16, 2011Over the past few months, I’ve been working with two separate collective impact efforts to think through a critical question: what human capital is needed to l…
How Can We Treat More Than 0.5% of MDR-TB?
November 14, 2011As I prepared to go to the annual tuberculosis (TB) Union meeting in October, friends and colleagues mentioned that they had heard the good news about TB, that…
The Riddle of Shared Ownership
November 8, 2011I recently had the rare opportunity to spend the better part of two days reflecting on my work. I spent those days with a group of visitors from Germany who ca…
Learning & Improving through Shared Measurement
October 31, 2011One of the most difficult elements of creating and managing an effective collective impact initiative is shared measurement - the use of a common set of measur…
Collective Impact in Global Development and the Challenge of Communication
October 17, 2011Collective Impact is a systematic approach to solving large and complex social problems through cross-sector coordination –
Collective Impact 2.0
October 6, 2011I knew something was up last winter when I received more than 20 e-mails in a span of 48 hours asking if I had read this new article in the Stanford Social Inn…
It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint
September 28, 2011Last week, FSG had the privilege of hosting a session, “From Collaboration to Collective Impact,” at the Council on Foundations Fall Conference for Community F…