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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 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…
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…
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Listen to FSG’s Veronica Borgonovi and Hayling Price Discuss Racial Equity with Tamarack Institute’s Liz Weaver
November 4, 2019
Veronica Borgonovi Hayling Price
This week, FSG’s Veronica Borgonovi and Hayling Price joined Tamarack Institute’s Liz Weaver for a webinar, “Reckoning, Repair, and Change: Authentically Advan…
Systems Thinking
Working Together for Equitable Systems Change
October 2, 2019
John Harper
A few years ago, I came to a realization I imagine is all too familiar to many of us working in the social impact space. As the grandchild of sharecroppers and…
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 …
Collective Impact Corporate/CSR Economic Development Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Inclusive Markets Systems Thinking
FSG Staff Share Highlights from 2018
December 13, 2018
FSG
We are grateful and humbled to work alongside clients and partners around the globe on a wide range of pressing social impact issues. Below FSG staff share som…
Collective Impact Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
To Improve the Lives of Students, Two Communities Learn to Relate Differently
November 27, 2018
David Garfunkel Peter Senge Jessica Pizarek
This essay was first published by Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is part of a series written by leading education practitioners in response to a Carnegie…

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