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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…

Economic Development Systems Thinking
Join FSG in Protecting Access to Federal Housing Data
April 20, 2017
Hayling Price
Along with several national organizations, FSG recently signed onto a letter encouraging Congress to protect fair housing regulations and oppose efforts to blo…
Corporate/CSR Economic Development Education & Youth Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Engaging Employers: Three Lessons from Impact Hiring
April 11, 2017
Nicole Trimble Abigail Carlton
This post was originally published by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Systems Change in a Polarized Country
April 11, 2017
Mark Kramer
Last year, I interviewed the CEOs of nearly two dozen leading U.S. foundations to understand how their thinking about philanthropic strategy has evolved over t…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
Four Lessons from Leading Companies Responding to the Refugee Crisis
February 15, 2017
Philippe Sion Jaclyn Marcatili Laura Watry
FSG Managing Director Philippe Sion recently hosted a panel on the role companies can take in accelerating solutions to the refugee crisis, as part of the Ever…
Systems Thinking
Supporting Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
January 17, 2017
FSG
The recent election in the United States has highlighted the breadth and depth of many divisions among people, both nationally and globally. Differing perspect…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
New Year, New Intentions, New Resource
January 9, 2017
Katelyn Mack
With the start of a new year often comes an opportunity to look back or to look forward with the intent to do things differently. We (may) make resolutions—to …
Systems Thinking
The Curb-Cut Effect
November 22, 2016
FSG Angela Glover Blackwell
In this month’s issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review, CEO at PolicyLink and FSG board member Angela Glover Blackwell discusses the “curb-cut effect,” the…
Foundation Strategy Systems Thinking
New Systems Thinking Tool: Appreciative Inquiry
September 27, 2016
Marcie Parkhurst Stephen Downs
This post is a part of a blog series in which we’re introducing and sharing guidance for using different tools to support systems thinking and practice.This mo…
Systems Thinking
New Systems Thinking Tool: Trend Mapping
August 18, 2016
Marcie Parkhurst Chera D. Reid
This post is a part of a blog series in which we’re introducing and sharing guidance for using different tools to support systems thinking and practice.This mo…
Strategic Learning & Evaluation Systems Thinking
The Art and Science of Place-Based Philanthropy: Themes from a National Convening
August 10, 2016
FSG
FSG managing director Hallie Preskill recently co-authored an article on new trends in place-based philanthropy.The Foundation Review article “The Art and Scie…

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