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- Corporate/CSR
Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
- Corporate/CSR, Foundation Strategy
Future of Social Impact: What to Watch for in 2024
What does 2024 mean for the future of social impact?
Shared Measurement for Collective Impact
September 14, 2011What does it take for lots of different organizations measuring their own performance in different ways to move to using a common set of measures to track prog…
It’s About People We Will Never Meet
September 13, 2011Finding meaningful answers to global health questions is hard, because, well, they are global. World leaders will convene next week to consider the massive and…
Is Not Doing Bad Doing Good Enough?
September 12, 2011It’s a great time to be in India. Sure, it’s monsoon season, and heavy rains mean higher risk of malaria and bacterial illness, loads of traffic, and an inabil…
Collective Impact: A Compelling Cause & Compact for Growth
September 7, 2011by Diana Aviv, president and CEO, Independent Sector
Cultural Competence in Evaluation
September 7, 2011Recently, I had a fortuitous discussion with a dean from a reputable medical school in the east coast who asserted that culture accounted for “almost nothing” …
Like Politics, Catalytic Philanthropy is Local
September 5, 2011We talk a big game in Do More Than Give, urging donors to solve pressing problems and drive for wide-scale, systemic change. But when it comes to demonstrating…
How Do Small and Mid-sized Businesses Create Shared Value?
August 31, 2011A colleague and I were recently invited to talk about shared value with members of the Entrepreneurs Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Though we had a …
Inspiration and Impact on Staten Island
August 29, 2011FSG has been working with a group of stakeholders on Staten Island to design a collective impact approach to fight youth alcohol and prescription drug abuse. A…
Shared Value Through the Looking Glass
August 29, 2011The concept of Creating Shared Value has been met with great enthusiasm and support. Witness the success of our Shared Value Summit and coverage in the New Yor…
Teaching Sprinters to Run Marathons
August 23, 2011At FSG, we often hear from firms who buy into the shared value idea and who see its potential, but are wrestling with how to turn that from a well-meaning HQ-l…