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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.

Equity Systems Thinking
Inclusive Facilitation for Social Change
August 17, 2023
FSG
From strategy workshops to board meetings to focus groups with community members, FSG has collectively facilitated hundreds of virtual meetings.
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Change Your Mind Before You Change the System: Taking a Closer Look at Mental Models and the Water of Systems Change
June 29, 2023
Flynn Lebus Julie Jeanneret
Influencing mindsets and mental models requires identifying what current mental models need to be shifted, targeting priority stakeholders for change, and desi…
Collective Impact Equity Systems Thinking
Creating Purposeful Spaces of Inclusion and Belonging
May 25, 2023
Ajai Scott
Ruchika Tulshyan and Melody Barnes at the 2023 Collective Impact Forum Action Summit."I believe in you. I see you." Ruchika Tulshyan, award-winning inclusion …
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.
Collective Impact Equity Systems Thinking
Lessons in Examining the Role of Advocacy and Organizing in Collective Impact
November 1, 2021
This year, Frontline Solutions worked with the Collective Impact Forum to conduct research on how collective impact initiatives can leverage advocacy and organ…
Corporate/CSR Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Thank you MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett
June 16, 2021
Greg Hills
Last 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…
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 …
Systems Thinking
The Washington Post: How to Reconstruct an Equitable Future for the D.C. Region
June 19, 2020
Ursula Wright
In The Washington Post, Ursula Wright co-authored an opinion piece with Tonia Wellons, CEO of Greater Washington Community Foundation, detailing three fluid ph…
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…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Three Ways Funders Can Be Co-Strategists
November 26, 2019
John Harper
Last 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…

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