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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…
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Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
How a New Foundation Utilized Community Voice in their Strategy Formation
May 12, 2022FSG partnered with Natrona Collective Health Trust (NCHT), a new health conversion foundation in Casper, Wyoming, to develop its strategy to improve community …
Inner Work: The Heart of Organizational Equity Work
April 4, 2022We hear about "inner work" often when we work with companies on equity. What do we mean by inner work, and why is it so important?
Room to Grow: Philanthropy’s Next Steps in Rural America
December 9, 2021Imagine a group of Americans facing a barrage of structural challenges: rapid demographic change, mortality rates 75% higher than comparable populations, deep …
What Does It Mean to Shift? Strategic Planning with the Cleveland Foundation
November 30, 2021What does it take to move a foundation to adopt a new way of planning?In our wildest dreams, strategic plans are these beautifully constructed living document…
All Funders Must Become Climate Funders
November 4, 2021The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2021 assessment, the gold standard summary of current climate science, tells us that the climate crisis …
Becoming a Climate Funder: How Philanthropists Can Take Action on Climate and Justice
July 13, 2021In many parts of the United States, our weather is growing more extreme. Recent headlines shout about record-breaking heat domes, severe drought, and dangerous…
Thank you MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett
June 16, 2021Last week I learned that FSG had been awarded a generous grant by MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett. As she explained in her recent Medium post, some of the organ…
Uniting to Protect Democracy for All
January 7, 2021Like most of you, I’m still processing what happened yesterday at the U.S. Capitol. I was glued to the TV. Horror. Disbelief. Sadness. Resolve.
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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 …
SSIR Blog: What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital
October 20, 2020In a post on Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG's Harvey Koh writes about how the catalytic capital questions of development finance institutions, private …