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- Environment, Equity, Foundation Strategy
All Funders Must Become Climate Funders
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2021 assessment, the gold standard summary of current climate science, tells us…

- Equity, U.S. Health
Philanthropy Needs to Reckon with Racism in Behavioral Health
Behavioral health issues may finally be starting to get the attention they have long deserved from the philanthropic community.…
SSIR Blog: What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital
October 20, 2020In a post on Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG's Harvey Koh writes about how the catalytic capital questions of development finance institutions, private …
Economics of Impact: Unlocking Purpose-Led Performance Management
October 8, 2020With increasing recognition that markets today create wealth and positive social impact inequitably and deplete or degrade natural resources, more companies mu…
Thank You, Lauren Smith
September 24, 2020To FSG’s stakeholders around the world:With mixed emotions, I want to share with you all that my fellow co-CEO, Dr. Lauren A. Smith, will be stepping down from…
A New Role
September 24, 2020Moving on from a role I have enjoyed is always difficult because I am flooded with so many memories of meaningful experiences, even as I feel a sense of excite…
Change the World—for Whom? Why Addressing Racism Must be a Top Corporate Priority
September 21, 2020This blog was originally posted on Fortune.com on September 21, 2020.2020 has tested many corporations’ aspirations to be a force for social good. As we recogn…
Impact Investment Opportunities in India for Catalytic Investors
September 4, 2020India has a dynamic impact investing market, with many investors—from philanthropic foundations, to impact investors, to commercial investors—seeking to genera…
The Opportunity of a Lifetime for HNIs—Saving the Indian NGO Sector
The year 2020 will be etched in our memories for a long time. COVID-19 has blindsided most of us. The non-discriminating virus has not spared any country, reli…
A CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity
The courageous antiracist movement sweeping across the world has called into question the American legacy. We have a choice now either to continue the legacy …
Corporate Silence and Anti-Racism
July 2, 2020George Floyd. Elijah McClain. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Rayshard Brooks. Riah Milton. Dominique Fells. Nina Pop. Sean Reed.In the wake of the cont…