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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.

Environment Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation
How Community Foundations Can Better Coordinate Responses to Disasters
November 5, 2018
Nikhil Bumb Renee Wizig-Barrios LaMecia Butler
Last month, Hurricane Michael devastated and left a trail of destruction along Florida and Georgia. Two months ago, Hurricane Florence left the Carolinas under…
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
How Evaluation Supports Systems Change
April 27, 2018
John Kania Hallie Preskill
Over the past few years, we’ve supported a growing number of foundations in adopting a systems change approach to creating social change.
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy Gender Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Four Ways to Incorporate a Gender Lens in Your Measurement and Evaluation Efforts
January 31, 2018
Aditi Luminet
Across the social sector, we have seen growing interest in bringing a gender lens to social change—from foundations and nonprofits aligning to the Sustainable …
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
What Have We Learned About Learning in the Past 10 Years?
November 27, 2017
Hallie Preskill
As a member of the evaluation community, and in my work as an advisor to foundation clients including Kaiser Permanente’s Community Benefit, the Kresge Foundat…
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation
The State of Evaluation and Learning in Philanthropy
October 10, 2017
Hallie Preskill
This summer, I had the good fortune to join a group of 27 funders and evaluators from across the country in Chicago. We discussed the current state of evaluati…
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
The Democracy Fund and FSG on Understanding Trust to Strengthen Democracy
August 31, 2017
FSG Francesca Mazzola
In a new blog post from the Democracy Fund, Srik Gopal, vice president of strategy, learning, and impact at the Democracy Fund, and FSG’s Francesca Mazzola dis…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking Tool: Journey Mapping
June 20, 2017
Sandra Medrano Cara Priestley
Aimee’s spouse is in the Army and her family has relocated 14 times over the course of his career. In each community, she stops at the library to learn about h…
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Strengthening a Struggling Collaboration through Evaluation: Lessons from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation
June 12, 2017
Rebekah Levin Hallie Preskill
For many years now, interest in nonprofit and philanthropic collaborations has been growing. Whether organizations are embracing collaborations because of shri…
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation U.S. Health
Kaiser Permanente’s Pam Schwartz on Becoming a Learning Organization
February 17, 2017
FSG Pamela Schwartz
Like others in the social sector, I spend a lot of time thinking about hard questions: To what degree are we improving the lives of people in the communities w…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
New Year, New Intentions, New Resource
January 9, 2017
Katelyn Mack
With the start of a new year often comes an opportunity to look back or to look forward with the intent to do things differently. We (may) make resolutions—to …

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