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- Foundation Strategy
Embracing an Ecosystem Approach for Philanthropy
Funders are shifting from being at the center of social change efforts to working in close partnership with the…
- Corporate/CSR
Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
Unrest in Our Schools
March 2, 2011As protests rage and political powers are overthrown in the Middle East, we are seeing a similar battle ensuing at home. In Madison, New York City and Philadel…
Collective Impact and Place
February 25, 2011Kania and Kramer’s latest piece in the Stanford Social Innovation Review is a great addition to understanding what works in the field of philanthropy. For the …
The Challenge of Changing Perceptions of Vaccines
February 22, 2011After years as an itinerant engineer bachelor my friend, whom we will call him Max, got married last year. He settled down into a little house in the San Franc…
Learning Organizations and Systems Change
February 22, 2011Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, organizations in every sector have t…
CSR vs. CSV – What’s the difference?
February 18, 2011In response to the recent Harvard Business Review article on Creating Shared Value I wrote with Michael Porter, I’ve received questions about the relationship …
Do You “Do More Than Give?”
February 17, 2011How do you give? Do you write a check or are you an active participant in solving complex social problems? In the forthcoming book Do More Than Give: The Six P…
An Emerging Brain Drain from the US?
February 16, 2011Jay Matthews of the Washington Post recently posted an interesting column titled “The myth of declining U.S. schools: They’ve long been mediocre” based on a Br…
What’s it Worth to Cure Polio?
February 9, 2011If you’re Bill Gates, the answer came last week when the Gates Foundation released its annual letter. Front and center is the world’s quest to end polio. This …
The FSG Experience, the Second Decade
February 8, 2011While we write and speak about “better ways to solve social problems,” we rarely write about ourselves. Stack it up to our love of ideas or a dash of humility …
Middle School Madness
February 8, 2011“If you love bungee jumping, you’re the middle school type.” So starts Peter Meyer’s article,The Middle School Mess, in the winter 2011 edition of Education Ne…