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- Collective Impact, Corporate/CSR, Economic Development, Foundation Strategy
Leveraging Historic Federal Investment: Roles for Communities, Companies, and Funders
How three key groups of stakeholders can help realize the potential of federal investment in a new wave of…


- Corporate/CSR, Equity
By Staying Committed to Social Impact in Times of Uncertainty, Companies Can See Long-Term Benefit
Companies that divest in social impact may be sacrificing long-term growth opportunities for short-term gains.
Creating Purposeful Spaces of Inclusion and Belonging
May 25, 2023Ruchika Tulshyan and Melody Barnes at the 2023 Collective Impact Forum Action Summit."I believe in you. I see you." Ruchika Tulshyan, award-winning inclusion …
How Can Funders Support Grantee Cohorts as Part of a Systems Change Strategy?
April 21, 2023How funders can think more strategically about how they use grantee learning cohorts as a tool for systems change.
Lessons in Examining the Role of Advocacy and Organizing in Collective Impact
November 1, 2021This year, Frontline Solutions worked with the Collective Impact Forum to conduct research on how collective impact initiatives can leverage advocacy and organ…
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…
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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 …
The Washington Post: How to Reconstruct an Equitable Future for the D.C. Region
June 19, 2020In The Washington Post, Ursula Wright co-authored an opinion piece with Tonia Wellons, CEO of Greater Washington Community Foundation, detailing three fluid ph…
Top Reads from 2019
December 16, 2019As 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…
Three Ways Funders Can Be Co-Strategists
November 26, 2019Last week, a few of my colleagues and I had the pleasure of attending Change Philanthropy’s Unity Summit, a biennial gathering that now brings together more th…
How Do You Evaluate Systems Change? A Place to Start.
November 22, 2019Systems change has received much attention in recent years as grantmakers have increasingly set out to change underlying conditions that hold systemic challeng…
Advancing Systems Change with Southeastern Council of Foundations
November 19, 2019Last week, FSG was pleased to join the 50th-anniversary Southeastern Council of Foundations conference for a workshop with representatives from 60 foundations …