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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.
Join Us Next Tuesday for a Webinar: “Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth”
February 6, 2013Please join us on Tuesday, February 12, to hear from leaders in youth development, workforce development, and collective impact about efforts around the US to …
Community Foundations, let’s continue to make splashes together in 2013!
January 28, 2013As a part of the staff of CF Insights, I have had the pleasure to work with the community foundation field for almost 4 years now and still I’m amazed at the w…
Embracing (even more) Creative Tensions of Collective Impact
January 27, 2013In the blog last Wednesday, I described a critical creative tension every backbone organization must face in addressing systemic change in education through co…
Online Courses: College Access at the Price of Success?
January 24, 2013Massive, open, online courses, or MOOCs, were a key topic of the higher education discourse during 2012. Discussions of how MOOCs might fundamentally change hi…
The Story of Outward Bound and Why Experiential Education Matters
January 23, 20132 rattlesnakes. 2 tarantulas. 1 Peregrine Falcon. 1 flash flood. 1 night alone in a canyon wall. 80-foot rappels. Hiking in and around a canyon in southe…
FSG as Gardener: Fostering Green Shoots of Philanthropy in Asia
January 22, 2013The Chinese will tell you that bamboo is resilient, its root systems self-propagating, and its form reflective of local conditions. Among the hardiest plants, …
Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity
January 22, 2013Complex social problems cannot be solved by a single organization, predetermined solution, or simple recipe.
Collective Impact Year in Review
January 14, 2013Last year was a busy year for FSG and Collective Impact!
A New Year, A New Metaphor (Or Is It?)
January 14, 2013We know that metaphors matter. They shape the way we think about ideas, concepts and entire disciplines. More often than not, we use metaphors to describe or h…
Good Reads on Women’s and Children’s Health
December 18, 2012According to the 2012 UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report, while rates of maternal mortality have been nearly cut in half since 1990, rates are still …