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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.
One Firm Feel
July 25, 2011One of the themes of FSG’s approach to solving difficult problems is getting multiple people working on the issue. Lots of brains are better than one. We emplo…
Collective Impact in Cartagena Colombia with Clinton
July 20, 2011Martha Montes lives one of the poorest neighborhoods of Cartagena, Colombia. She has a small, two room house with a cement slab floor where 5 people live and i…
The Good News about Detroit
July 19, 2011I’m not going to introduce this blog post with a context-setting string of depressing statistics about Detroit. Let’s just say that, when I was in the Motor Ci…
NGOs: From Grantees to Shared Value Partners
July 18, 2011Among all the inquiries we’ve received about Creating Shared Value during the last 6 months, the most curious have been from non-governmental organizations (NG…
Summer Reading: Creating Shared Value
July 18, 2011Following on heels of our recent Leadership Summit, there continues to be a buzz about Creating Shared Value.Here are some recent shared value articles to add …
Youth in Foster Care: An Invisible Underserved Population
July 14, 2011For the past few weeks, I have been learning about an important, underserved group of youth in the United States: Foster Youth.
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…
Taming the Tiger’s TB: addressing tuberculosis in China
July 12, 2011Recently I was fortunate enough to travel far and wide across China (after an equally exciting trip to Russia) to understand the growing epidemic of multi-drug…
A Real Breakthrough
July 6, 2011When asked for a simple way to think about performance measurement, I usually respond that there are two basic approaches. Setting clear goals and tracking you…
Can 4th Graders Save the World?
July 5, 2011Like many of you, I'm a big fan of TED. As part of my research for my series on creativity and education, I came across musician and teacher John Hunter and th…