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The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress

The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…

Foundation Strategy

Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders

Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.

Environment Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation
How Community Foundations Can Better Coordinate Responses to Disasters
November 5, 2018
Nikhil Bumb Renee Wizig-Barrios LaMecia Butler
Last month, Hurricane Michael devastated and left a trail of destruction along Florida and Georgia. Two months ago, Hurricane Florence left the Carolinas under…
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy
Moving Beyond Trade-offs in Impact Investing
October 31, 2018
Nikhil Bumb Harvey Koh Mark Kramer Chinyere Amanze
In the fast-growing impact investing sector, a contentious debate has been brewing. Does genuine impact always require a sacrifice of financial returns? Or sho…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
New in the Chronicle of Philanthropy: Why Foundations Need an ‘Ensemble Cast’ to Tackle Complex Challenges
August 1, 2018
FSG
In a new article published in the July issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, FSG highlights how foundations that are experimenting with new ways of creating …
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
New Resource: The Water of Systems Change Action Learning Exercise
July 17, 2018
John Kania David Garfunkel Hayling Price
In our work with foundation and nonprofit leaders over the past few years, we have heard an increasing number of questions about systems change as leaders in t…
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
FSG’s Next Chapter
June 12, 2018
Mark Kramer
It has been my immense privilege to co-found FSG with Michael Porter and to have been part of its journey these last 18 years. It is an equally great privilege…
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy
Announcing a New Team to Lead FSG
June 11, 2018
FSG Greg Hills Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH
We are excited to announce Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH and Greg Hills as FSG's co-CEOs.The pair succeeds John Kania, who is stepping away from his current role as…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
New Article: The Water of Systems Change
June 4, 2018
FSG
For many funders and grantees, the concept of systems change is difficult to grasp and even more challenging to apply in their daily work.The Water of Systems …
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking U.S. Health
Board Member Reflections on the MetroWest Health Foundation’s Strategic Planning Process
May 29, 2018
FSG
For the past 20 years, the MetroWest Health Foundation has served as a catalyst for a healthy MetroWest region, providing over $5 million in annual financial s…
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
How Evaluation Supports Systems Change
April 27, 2018
John Kania Hallie Preskill
Over the past few years, we’ve supported a growing number of foundations in adopting a systems change approach to creating social change.
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
You Can’t Make Change out There, if You Don’t Make Change in Here
April 11, 2018
Valerie Bockstette Abigail Ridgway
As foundations embrace ever more ambitious and complex approaches for creating social change, they are taking an intentional approach to rethinking their organ…

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