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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…

Shared Value Strategic Learning & Evaluation
How Fostering a Learning Culture Can Improve Your Strategy
June 22, 2023
Allison Kaika Gabriella Cova Nikhil Bumb
FSG's Nikhil Bumb, Allison Kaika, Gabriella Cova, and Mikayla Redding joined Capital + SAFI in La Paz, Bolivia for several in-person strategy workshopsAs soci…
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
How Can Funders Support Grantee Cohorts as Part of a Systems Change Strategy?
April 21, 2023
Joelle Cook David Claps
How funders can think more strategically about how they use grantee learning cohorts as a tool for systems change.
Global Health Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Partnering for Change, Committing to Learning
December 14, 2021
Christina Hooson Sebastien Mazzuri
Strategic learning and evaluation are important tools for cross-sector collaboration—to monitor and understand progress, to support accountability, and to help…
Collective Impact Corporate/CSR Economic Development Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Global Development Global Health Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking U.S. Health
End of Year Reflections 2020
December 17, 2020
Greg Hills
“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 …
Strategic Learning & Evaluation U.S. Health
Big Sky Thinking: A Look at How the Headwaters Foundation Centered Trust in Their Evaluation and Learning Practices
July 9, 2020
Joelle Cook Aditi Luminet Lolita Castrique-Meier Abigail Ridgway
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Rethinking Outcomes in a Crisis Context
May 26, 2020
Hallie Preskill Kathleen Dean
In this critical time, and with a sense of urgency, many philanthropic organizations are shifting the ways in which they are supporting grantees. In addition …
Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Learning in a Time of Crisis
April 7, 2020
Hallie Preskill Joelle Cook
Many philanthropic organizations are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by developing rapid-response funding mechanisms, resources, and revised grant policie…
Corporate/CSR Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
Top Reads from 2019
December 16, 2019
Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH Greg Hills
As FSG enters its 20th year of supporting social impact funders and leaders across sectors, we are appreciative of our clients and partners around the world. Y…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
How Do You Evaluate Systems Change? A Place to Start.
November 22, 2019
Joelle Cook Hallie Preskill
Systems change has received much attention in recent years as grantmakers have increasingly set out to change underlying conditions that hold systemic challeng…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
New from FSG and GEO: Engaging Boards and Trustees in Strategic Learning
January 17, 2019
Colleen McCann
Nearly a decade ago, FSG published What’s the Difference: How Foundation Trustees View Evaluation, exploring how boards and trustees were thinking about evalua…

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