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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.
Collective Impact in Health – Webinar Questions Answered Part Three
February 3, 2014In a recent FSG webinar discussion on collective impact in health Christy Reeves, director of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation, Dr. Victo…
Return on Investment: New York State Juvenile Justice Reform
January 27, 2014In 2011, transformational change was needed in order to dramatically reform the New York State juvenile justice system. A large state with a hopelessly complic…
Collective Impact in Health – Webinar Questions Answered
January 22, 2014In a recent FSG webinar discussion on collective impact in health Christy Reeves, director of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation, Dr. Victo…
Lessons from the Community Partnerships Portfolio
December 18, 2013For the past three and a half years, the OMG Center has served as the evaluation partner for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Community Partnerships portf…
A Reflection: Collective Impact in Australia – 12 Months On
December 16, 2013This post originally appeared on Pro Bono Australia News. After just over 12 months of fully immersing ourselves in trying to better understand how we can incr…
Sources and Measures of Influence in Collective Impact
December 3, 2013In a new series on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s blog, FSG’s Katherine Errecart and Anjali Bhatt, and Shiloh Turner, the Greater Cincinnati Foundation’s …
What’s Up Next for the Collective Impact Forum?
December 2, 2013Two weeks ago, we announced The Collective Impact Forum: our new partnership with the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions to share, curate and create the knowl…
Join us for Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact
November 25, 2013After two successful events for backbone leaders in the last year, we are excited to announce the 2014 edition of Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Orga…
Announcing the Collective Impact Forum
November 18, 2013From the moment the original article on collective impact was published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2011, we at FSG have been excited and humbl…
Lessons Learned for Applying Collective Impact for Childhood Obesity Efforts (and Public Health Efforts More Broadly)
October 9, 2013In our final post in this blog series, looking across these seven initiatives reveals several key lessons learned for collective impact in a childhood obesity …