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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…
FSG Alumnus in Western Kenya
December 6, 2010After spending two and a half years at FSG, I moved to Western Kenya to work with AMPATH, a leading health organization that is providing HIV/AIDS treatment to…
Collective Impact and Big Change
December 7, 2010In Malcolm Gladwell’s recent New Yorker article, “Small Change,” Gladwell suggests that true social change comes from a structured effort in which a central bo…
Noncommunicable Diseases, Access, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
December 13, 2010Hypertension. Cancer. Diabetes. COPD. Those are all non-communicable diseases (NCDs) traditionally depicted as the privilege of wealthy societies basking in th…
The Student Voice
December 13, 2010Gabriel, my preschool-aged son, just brought home his very first piece of art in which you can actually tell what he was trying to draw. A gun. Barrel, trigger…
The Makings of Catalytic Philanthropy
December 13, 2010In many German cities children with a “Migrationshintergrund”, in other words those with an immigrant background, make up 50% of most classrooms. Evidence, suc…
The Future of Microfinance
December 20, 2010Being based in FSG’s newest “outpost” in Mumbai, India, has afforded me opportunities to learn first-hand about issues that we otherwise only read about in the…
Burning Questions in the NCDs Response
December 20, 2010Last week, my colleague Sebastien shared his thoughts on the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and opportunities for pharma companies to pro…
Collective Impact Examples from the Field
December 21, 2010With the release of FSG’s article on Collective Impact this month, this seemed like an opportune moment to explore some recent collective impact efforts in edu…
Shared Value & Corporate Reputation
December 23, 2010Today, the BBC News website posted several short vignettes about companies who’ve had a pretty tough year in reputational terms.
Biotech and Global Health
January 3, 2011The scarcity of R&D for the developing world is not a new problem. It has been 50 years since we had a new TB drug – because the issue has been addressed in th…