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- Environment, Equity, Foundation Strategy
All Funders Must Become Climate Funders
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2021 assessment, the gold standard summary of current climate science, tells us…


- Equity, U.S. Health
Philanthropy Needs to Reckon with Racism in Behavioral Health
Behavioral health issues may finally be starting to get the attention they have long deserved from the philanthropic community.…
Why Another Set of Early Learning Indicators?
June 19, 2013This blog post is the second in a series focusing on a study of early learning success markers (indicators) for ages 0-8, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundat…
Early Learning Indicators – Race to the Top
July 13, 2011By December 2011, the U.S. government will allocate $500 million to states through the Race to the Top (RTTT) Early Learning Challenge (ELC). The ELC is a new…
Preview of Markers that Matter: Success Indicators in Early Learning and Education
June 4, 2013FSG recently hosted a webinar where we shared some highlights of our work to research, synthesize and vet a set of early learning indicators, which will be det…
Choose Your Indicators Wisely – A Case for Use
July 16, 2013This blog post is the fourth in a series focusing on a study of early learning success markers (indicators), ages 0-8, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation…
Collaboration to Transform Indicators into “Markers That Matter”
July 24, 2013I had the recent pleasure of working on FSG’s recently released report Markers that Matter: Success Indicators for Early Learning and Education.
Measuring Blended Learning Impact
July 20, 2016This post was originally published by Raise Your Hand Texas.
The School of the Future
May 9, 2012Helping the Kid with the Giant Hands LearnMy two oldest kids started kindergarten this year and my third is in pre-school. So while I’ve worked in public educa…
The Riddle of Shared Ownership
November 8, 2011I recently had the rare opportunity to spend the better part of two days reflecting on my work. I spent those days with a group of visitors from Germany who ca…