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- Corporate/CSR, Foundation Strategy
Future of Social Impact: What to Watch for in 2024
What does 2024 mean for the future of social impact?
- Collective Impact, Corporate/CSR, Economic Development, Foundation Strategy
Leveraging Historic Federal Investment: Roles for Communities, Companies, and Funders
How three key groups of stakeholders can help realize the potential of federal investment in a new wave of…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Reshaping the World
December 1, 2010The challenges of developing FSG’s new website helped crystallize who we are. We’ve always struggled to explain the different worlds we bridge: philanthropic s…