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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.…
Rewiring Employment in a New Age
May 23, 2018An employment crisis is brewing. Recent research on the impact of artificial intelligence and automation estimates that there will be 38 million jobs lost in t…
Second Impact Hiring Innovation Lab Cohort Kicks Off in New Orleans
November 7, 2017HR, operations, and corporate social responsibility leaders from Caterpillar (and two of their dealerships: Alban and Blanchard), Dave’s Killer Bread, Entergy,…
How the Orange County Community Foundation is Increasing Youth Resilience
August 28, 2017ACT Anaheim, an initiative designed to address the needs of at-risk youth and families with a focus on 13-18 year-olds, was formed in 2013 by The Disneyland Re…
Discussing Opportunity Youth and Impact Hiring with House Committee on Education and the Workforce
July 21, 2017Earlier this week, I had the honor of serving on a panel of Opportunity Youth practitioners and experts presenting to the House of Representative’s Committee o…
Five Lessons from Walmart’s CSR Strategy Efforts
June 6, 2017“We think of ourselves as social change strategists,” explained Gayatri Agnew, Director of Career Opportunity at the Walmart Foundation, distinguishing the as…
PolicyLink on the 2018 Federal Budget
May 30, 2017Budgets reflect priorities and the Trump Administration’s 2018 budget request signals much about the federal government’s current commitment to our nation’s mo…
Join FSG in Protecting Access to Federal Housing Data
April 20, 2017Along with several national organizations, FSG recently signed onto a letter encouraging Congress to protect fair housing regulations and oppose efforts to blo…
Engaging Employers: Three Lessons from Impact Hiring
April 11, 2017This post was originally published by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Entry-Level Retention Makes a Billion Dollar Difference for Business and Society
March 27, 2017In the years since the Great Recession, unemployment levels have fallen across the United States, while economic growth in the country has rebounded. As a resu…
Opportunity Youth at Work
October 18, 2016Launched in August 2015, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative is the nation’s largest employer-led coalition focused on supporting opportunity youth—16-24 year…