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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…
Engaging Stakeholders, What Works?
June 20, 2011Most conversations about stakeholder engagement and participatory evaluation have shifted from focusing on the question of why to involve stakeholders to how t…
Academic Rigor: A Right, Privilege, or Burden?
June 15, 2011I recently attended a screening of Race to Nowhere, a wide-ranging documentary film that addresses a number of issues related to the increasing academic demand…
CSV vs. Sustainability: The Debate Continues
June 10, 2011…it has always been our intention to be more than a corporation that makes mortgage loans; we wanted to be a force in making positive differences in people’s l…
Evolution, Corporations, and Global Health
June 9, 2011Last week I was at the annual conference of GBCHealth. Who? GBCHealth is the new identity of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malar…
College Access & Economic Mobility
June 8, 2011I’m going to Atlanta in two weeks to moderate a panel at the National Charter School Conference on Practices to Increase College Success and it’s got me thinki…
Sharing is Caring
June 8, 2011As part of our work in building the field and learning more ourselves about the strong force of CSV (Creating Shared Value), the Education & Youth practice has…
From Mindset to Measurement
May 26, 2011It was heartening to hear Peter Brabeck, chair of Nestlé, say this week at their most recent Creating Shared Value (CSV) forum, that Nestlé had not yet cracked…
Creating Shared Value Across Europe
May 24, 2011I really do have the best job in the world. Over the past 2.5 weeks I’ve had the opportunity to speak about Creating Shared Value (CSV) at three different even…
This Week in Global Health
May 19, 2011A lot of recent developments in global health have been sparking discussion around the office. I thought I’d share a couple of the items we’d been talking abou…
The Price of Change
May 19, 2011The cost of catalytic philanthropy was top of mind for donors attending a recent Philanthropy New York seminar on Do More Than Give. They’d heard leaders speak…