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- Environment, Equity, Foundation Strategy
All Funders Must Become Climate Funders
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2021 assessment, the gold standard summary of current climate science, tells us…


- Equity, U.S. Health
Philanthropy Needs to Reckon with Racism in Behavioral Health
Behavioral health issues may finally be starting to get the attention they have long deserved from the philanthropic community.…
Redefining Collective Impact
November 12, 2021The year 2021 marks 10 years since the publication of the article “Collective Impact” in Stanford Social Innovation Review, authored by my FSG colleagues John …
Lessons in Examining the Role of Advocacy and Organizing in Collective Impact
November 1, 2021This year, Frontline Solutions worked with the Collective Impact Forum to conduct research on how collective impact initiatives can leverage advocacy and organ…
- Collective ImpactCorporate/CSREconomic DevelopmentEducation & YouthFoundation StrategyGlobal DevelopmentGlobal HealthStrategic Learning & EvaluationSystems ThinkingU.S. Health
End of Year Reflections 2020
December 17, 2020“During these unprecedented times…” That’s a phrase I hope to never read again, and not simply because it’s such a cliché. The very notion of an unprecedented …
Lauren Smith Joins the Business of Giving Podcast
November 14, 2019Lauren Smith, Co-CEO of FSG, recently joined Denver Frederick, Host of The Business of Giving on AM 970 The Answer WNYM in New York City. The interview also ap…
Collective Impact Insights at the Aspen Ideas Festival
August 26, 2019Complex social problems require complex solutions that require actors from different sectors to work together to create a common agenda. Collective impact offe…
Systems Change Is a Noun and a Verb
July 16, 2019There are generally three types of problems: simple, complicated, and complex. Simple problems, such as needing to change a light bulb, can usually be addresse…
Advancing Equity, Justice, and a Culture of Collaboration: Insights from the 2019 Collective Impact Convening
June 25, 2019This post, which originally appeared on the Collective Impact Forum, offers insight on the 2019 Collective Impact Convening.
- Collective ImpactCorporate/CSREconomic DevelopmentEducation & YouthFoundation StrategyInclusive MarketsSystems Thinking
FSG Staff Share Highlights from 2018
December 13, 2018We are grateful and humbled to work alongside clients and partners around the globe on a wide range of pressing social impact issues. Below FSG staff share som…
To Improve the Lives of Students, Two Communities Learn to Relate Differently
November 27, 2018This essay was first published by Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is part of a series written by leading education practitioners in response to a Carnegie…