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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.
Thank you MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett
June 16, 2021Last week I learned that FSG had been awarded a generous grant by MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett. As she explained in her recent Medium post, some of the organ…
Uniting to Protect Democracy for All
January 7, 2021Like most of you, I’m still processing what happened yesterday at the U.S. Capitol. I was glued to the TV. Horror. Disbelief. Sadness. Resolve.
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End of Year Reflections 2020
December 17, 2020“During these unprecedented times…” That’s a phrase I hope to never read again, and not simply because it’s such a cliché. The very notion of an unprecedented …
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 …
Rethinking Outcomes in a Crisis Context
May 26, 2020In this critical time, and with a sense of urgency, many philanthropic organizations are shifting the ways in which they are supporting grantees. In addition …
SSIR Blog: How Foundations Can Make Progress on Long-Term Social Change Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
May 13, 2020In a post on Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG's Rishi Agarwal writes on the potential for foundations to leverage the unique opportunities that COVID-19 …
Staying Agile in the Age of Lockdown
May 6, 2020For about a year now FSG has been exploring how we can more effectively deliver on our work to help our clients create social impact. We’re examining our orga…