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- Corporate/CSR, Global Health, U.S. Health
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.
Spotlight on CocoaAction: 4 Questions with Nira Desai
June 13, 2016Despite significant investments in cocoa sustainability initiatives by the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in recent years, cocoa farming continues to f…
Advancing the Practice of Collective Impact
May 16, 2016This post is adapted from our response to Tom Wolff’s editorial, both of which were posted on the Collective Impact Forum's website on May 4, 2016. Our thanks …
How Do You Successfully Put Collective Impact into Action?
April 21, 2016This content originally appeared on the Collective Impact Forum's website. Collective Impact Principles of Practice
Four Insights for Creating Outcomes for Opportunity Youth
April 15, 2016Launched in August 2015, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative is creating the nation’s largest employer-led coalition focused on helping young people build ski…
Collective Impact and the New Generation of Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education
March 31, 2016A new report from the Wallace Foundation and the Teachers College at Columbia University, Collective Impact and the New Generation of Cross-Sector Collaboratio…
Upcoming Collective Impact Events
March 24, 2016Looking for opportunities to deepen your collective impact practice this year? Below we’ve rounded up the Collective Impact Forum’s 2016 collective impact even…
Resource Alert: The Distressed Communities Index
March 18, 2016One challenge we often hear from social change practitioners, especially those working on collective impact issues, is around the lack of data available to sho…
Burning Questions from the “Getting Started with Collective Impact” Webinar Series
January 12, 2016The Collective Impact Forum and FSG recently co-hosted a 3-part webinar series, “Getting Started with Collective Impact.” This series prompted some engaging di…
Shared Value and Collective Impact–4 Years Later
October 13, 2015In the past few months, 2 of FSG’s ideas–shared value and collective impact–have gone mainstream with key featured articles in the general business press.In Au…
The Equity Imperative in Collective Impact
October 6, 2015In the first post of a 3-part blog series from Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG’s John Kania and Mark Kramer discuss the critical dimension missing from …