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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.…
Turning the Tide of Youth Unemployment in South Africa
September 12, 2016Youth unemployment has reached crisis levels in South Africa, with only 1 in 3 youths of working age employed. The high level of youth unemployment has far-rea…
Resource Alert: The Distressed Communities Index
March 18, 2016One challenge we often hear from social change practitioners, especially those working on collective impact issues, is around the lack of data available to sho…
Women, Work and Social Change
November 5, 2014On Friday, October 31, I had the honor of participating in an intimate roundtable discussion about women and the economy with President Obama at the Rhode Isla…
Coming Together to Disrupt the Cycle of Poverty
March 31, 2014Think of the people you know who live paycheck to paycheck. Whether they see themselves as teetering on the edge or doing OK, they’re vulnerable to what comes …
Building Relationships One Step at a Time
April 2, 2013SVA’s (Social Ventures Australia) recent article, Laying the Foundations for Collective Impact in Solving Unemployment in SVA Consulting Quarterly, looked at a…
Continuing the Discussion of Opportunity Youth
March 4, 2013Last month, FSG and Aspen Forum for Community Solutions co-hosted a webinar, “Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth,” that explored why collective impact is …
Fueling India’s Future Growth: Workforce Development through Collective Impact
October 12, 2012This post originally appeared on Forbes India.Despite recent estimates of “slowed” economic growth of 5-6% for 2012-13, India’s growth continues to outpace mos…
The Other Kind of Impact Investing
November 15, 2011Interest in impact investing has taken off in the last year, reaching a whole new level. Among all this good news, however, are we losing sight of the full ran…
Strategic Evaluation: Where do we go from here?
August 8, 2011I was recently talking about my experience as an evaluator with a group of students at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Se…
Creating Shared Value: Job Training
October 12, 2010How can job training partnerships between companies and U.S. community colleges create shared value for business and society? That question has been on my mind…