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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.

Global Health
A New Day at the Access to Medicine Foundation: A Discussion with New Executive Director Jayasree K. Iyer
December 21, 2015
FSG Jayasree K. Iyer
Two billion people lack access to medicine. The Access to Medicine Foundation a 10-year-old organization, that seeks to raise the ambition and performance of t…
Education & Youth
Educate Yourself on the Every Student Succeeds Act
December 18, 2015
FSG
Curious about the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a.k.a. the new education law in the U.S.? Congress passed and President Obama signed the new law last week…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
Learning to Love the Process and Other Lessons from System Mapping
December 7, 2015
Srikanth "Srik" Gopal
In the last 2 blog posts in this series, my colleagues provided an overview of system mapping and a specific example of the mapping process in action. Over the…
Corporate/CSR
One Size Doesn’t Fit All—Redesigning Employee Engagement
December 3, 2015
Chile Hidalgo Nidhi Hegde
Employee engagement is a topic that keeps many corporate managers up at night. Engaged employees are more productive and are more likely to stay longer with th…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
What is a Theory of Change? Really.
November 24, 2015
Katelyn Mack
Recently thousands of evaluators came together in Chicago to celebrate the growing field, share exemplary practices, and to push our collective thinking on ho…
Fostering Systems Change
November 20, 2015
FSG
How can foundations be more effective practitioners of systems change in a complex, inter-connected, and fast-changing world? In a new post on Stanford Social…
Marriage Equality and Emergent Strategy
November 12, 2015
Matt Wilka
At FSG we’re often asked for good examples of emergent strategy in action. Last week, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, along with several partners, release…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
System Mapping in Action
November 10, 2015
Lauren M. Smith
As part of our blog series on system mapping, we’d like to share an example from one of our recent projects that used system mapping techniques to support a br…
What is Catalytic Philanthropy?
November 4, 2015
FSG
How do you go beyond mere grantmaking to create significant change in a community like Dallas or on an issue like youth substance abuse? The answer is catalyti…
U.S. Health
FSG Welcomes Lauren Smith, Director of U.S. Health
October 27, 2015
FSG Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
We recently welcomed Lauren Smith as our new director of U.S. Health. Here, Lauren shares her experience and ideas for how to take on the toughest health issue…

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