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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.
New Resource: Systems Change Guide from NPC
August 3, 2015System Leadership is a topic that FSG has been thinking about and writing about in the past few years – but we are by no means the only ones. We have a lot to …
New Platform for Engaging Philanthropists in Global Development
July 31, 2015There has been a lot of coverage of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa earlier this month, and most of it is pretty…
Transforming a Juvenile Justice System through Community Engagement
July 27, 2015This post was originally published on the Youth Transition Funders Group blog.
Alan Khazei on Moving Beyond Scaling
July 22, 2015When I co-founded City Year with my college roommate Michael Brown in 1988, social entrepreneurship was emerging as a dynamic approach for social change. This …
Finding Hidden Connections between Social Change Movements
July 13, 2015This blog was originally featured in the Shared Value Initiative's community at sharedvalue.org.
Integrated Development—What Is It and Why Should We Care?
July 7, 2015Last week, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel as a side event to the InterAction Forum to discuss integrated approaches to development. Practitioners fr…
Critical Elements for Collective Impact Success
July 6, 2015The definition of collective impact is “the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social p…
Operating When You Can’t See the Full Picture
June 25, 2015This blog was originally posted in Stanford Social Innovation Review's Communities Creating Health series. Problems can be simple, complicated, or complex. Bui…
A Cross-Sector Approach to Tackling Diabetes
June 18, 2015Pharmaceutical companies have incredible potential to create social value. One of the companies we point to as a leader in this space, through our previous blo…
Video: Equity Matters in Collective Impact
June 16, 2015At the 2015 Collective Impact Convening in New Orleans, Angela Glover Blackwell of PolicyLink presented the keynote address, Equity Matters in Collective Impa…