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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
CSR Executives Test New Framing to Describe Their Giving Strategies
April 5, 2016
Greg Hills
As a consultant, sometimes it’s hard to know if the frameworks we create resonate with practitioners who are actually doing the work. So it was a powerful mome…
Collective Impact Education & Youth
Collective Impact and the New Generation of Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education
March 31, 2016
FSG
A new report from the Wallace Foundation and the Teachers College at Columbia University, Collective Impact and the New Generation of Cross-Sector Collaboratio…
Insurance, Social Impact, and Profit
March 25, 2016
Nina Jais
When you think about insurance companies, do you think about social impact? It’s likely not the first thing that comes to mind, but FSG client Skandia has real…
Collective Impact
Upcoming Collective Impact Events
March 24, 2016
FSG
Looking for opportunities to deepen your collective impact practice this year? Below we’ve rounded up the Collective Impact Forum’s 2016 collective impact even…
Collective Impact Economic Development
Resource Alert: The Distressed Communities Index
March 18, 2016
FSG
One challenge we often hear from social change practitioners, especially those working on collective impact issues, is around the lack of data available to sho…
Corporate/CSR
How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger
March 8, 2016
Mark Kramer FSG
In a new blog on Harvard Business Review, “How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger,” FSG’s Mark Kramer examines how corporations contributed to the ang…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
The Case for Developmental Evaluation
March 1, 2016
Marcie Parkhurst Hallie Preskill Jewlya Lynn Marah Moore
In a recent blog post discussing the importance of good evidence in supporting systems change work, evaluation expert Lisbeth Schorr wrote, “To get better resu…
Community Engagement Matters (and Upcoming Event and Webcast)
February 22, 2016
FSG Paul Schmitz
In a new article on Stanford Social Innovation Review, Paul Schmitz of the Collective Impact Forum and Melody Barnes of the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions…
Equity Systems Thinking
The FSG Story and What Does FSG Stand For Anyway?
February 22, 2016
FSG
We are often asked how FSG started, what FSG stands for, and how the organization has changed over the years. This post gives an overview of FSG’s history.
U.S. Health
FSG’s Lauren A. Smith Authors New Study on Infant Safe Sleep Advice and Breastfeeding Practices
February 11, 2016
FSG Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
Following advice to sleep in the same room with their infants—but not in the same bed—does not appear to discourage new mothers from breastfeeding, as some exp…

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