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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.

Economic Development Foundation Strategy
Growing Foundations, Growing Community: An Interview with the Kansas Association of Community Foundations
July 26, 2022
Chris Carlson Svetlana Hutfles
This blog is part of a series of conversations with rural leaders that FSG is publishing in conjunction with the release of our report: Rural America: Philanth…
Economic Development Education & Youth Foundation Strategy
Schools as the Soul of Rural Communities: An Interview with the Rural Schools Collaborative
July 19, 2022
Chris Carlson Taylor McCabe-Juhnke
This blog is part of a series of conversations with rural leaders that FSG is publishing in conjunction with the release of our report Rural America: Philanthr…
Economic Development Foundation Strategy
Room to Grow: Philanthropy’s Next Steps in Rural America
December 9, 2021
Chris Carlson Joelle Cook
Imagine a group of Americans facing a barrage of structural challenges: rapid demographic change, mortality rates 75% higher than comparable populations, deep …
Corporate/CSR Economic Development Equity Gender Global Health U.S. Health
International Women’s Day 2021: A Moment to Reflect, Be Thankful, and Recommit to Advancing Gender Equity
March 8, 2021
Talia Alongi Harshika Gupta Julie Jeanneret Flynn Lebus Bobbi Silten
2020 will forever be remembered as the year COVID-19 laid bare the burdens of women. While different from one context to another, “the negative effects are dis…
Collective Impact Corporate/CSR Economic Development Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Global Development Global Health Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking U.S. Health
End of Year Reflections 2020
December 17, 2020
Greg Hills
“During these unprecedented times…” That’s a phrase I hope to never read again, and not simply because it’s such a cliché. The very notion of an unprecedented …
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…
Corporate/CSR Economic Development
The Best Way to Rejuvenate Rural America? Invest in Rural America.
June 10, 2019
Joelle Cook
When it comes to their impact, there’s an inaccurate and problematic narrative about rural areas—one in which rural areas take more than they give from the gov…
Economic Development Shared Value Systems Thinking U.S. Health
Hospitals are Aspiring to Play a Big Role in Social Change
April 16, 2019
Abigail Ridgway
I have a greater appreciation for the ambitious and multi-faceted role the hospitals and health systems are playing in advancing health equity after attending …
Corporate/CSR Economic Development Education & Youth Foundation Strategy
FSG is a Proud Partner of the YES Project for Youth Employment
April 12, 2019
Ursula Wright
America’s Promise Alliance’s YES Project – Young, Employed, and Successful – launched this week. It is a national youth employment initiative aimed at achievi…
Economic Development Foundation Strategy U.S. Health
Reclaiming Democracy and the Role of Philanthropy
April 11, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
Last week, leaders and thinkers from around the world gathered in California at the Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF) conference to consider how to promote the i…

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