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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.

Foundation Strategy
The Importance of Framing for Foundations Engaging on Equity
February 4, 2020
John Harper
A senior leader from a small family foundation recently told me the story of when her organization first began conversations about racial equity and its role i…
Corporate/CSR Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
Top Reads from 2019
December 16, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH Greg Hills
As FSG enters its 20th year of supporting social impact funders and leaders across sectors, we are appreciative of our clients and partners around the world. Y…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Three Ways Funders Can Be Co-Strategists
November 26, 2019
John Harper
Last week, a few of my colleagues and I had the pleasure of attending Change Philanthropy’s Unity Summit, a biennial gathering that now brings together more th…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Advancing Systems Change with Southeastern Council of Foundations
November 19, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH Ursula Wright Abigail Ridgway
Last week, FSG was pleased to join the 50th-anniversary Southeastern Council of Foundations conference for a workshop with representatives from 60 foundations …
Collective Impact Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking U.S. Health
Lauren Smith Joins the Business of Giving Podcast
November 14, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
Lauren Smith, Co-CEO of FSG, recently joined Denver Frederick, Host of The Business of Giving on AM 970 The Answer WNYM in New York City. The interview also ap…
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Listen to FSG’s Veronica Borgonovi and Hayling Price Discuss Racial Equity with Tamarack Institute’s Liz Weaver
November 4, 2019
Veronica Borgonovi Hayling Price
This week, FSG’s Veronica Borgonovi and Hayling Price joined Tamarack Institute’s Liz Weaver for a webinar, “Reckoning, Repair, and Change: Authentically Advan…
Foundation Strategy
Doing Better More Efficiently: Measuring and Enhancing Philanthropic Vitality
September 27, 2019
Marc Pfitzer
The philanthropic sector is currently facing a paradox. Countries and local communities around the world need more philanthropic engagement than ever. And yet,…
Foundation Strategy
Creating a Culture of Learning at the Kauffman Foundation
July 12, 2019
Hallie Preskill Matthew Carr
Over the last several years, philanthropic actors have gradually embraced the fact that being more intentional about learning is critically important to their …
Corporate/CSR Economic Development Education & Youth Foundation Strategy
FSG is a Proud Partner of the YES Project for Youth Employment
April 12, 2019
Ursula Wright
America’s Promise Alliance’s YES Project – Young, Employed, and Successful – launched this week. It is a national youth employment initiative aimed at achievi…
Economic Development Foundation Strategy U.S. Health
Reclaiming Democracy and the Role of Philanthropy
April 11, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
Last week, leaders and thinkers from around the world gathered in California at the Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF) conference to consider how to promote the i…

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