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How to Create a Corporate Culture that Supports Shared Value

Many of the world’s leading companies are adopting strategies that have shared value at their center. These companies recognize that there are opportunities to increase competitiveness and profitability by solving social problems. As is the case with all business, shared value strategies are... Read more

New in Harvard Business Review: 12 Practices for Advancing Women in Retail Jobs

Even though the women comprise half the workforce, they are overrepresented in frontline positions and consistently underrepresented in higher-paying management roles. Over... Read more

Five Ways Foundations Can Help Protect Children from Adverse Experiences and Trauma

Recent research has increased attention on the wide-ranging and serious consequences of adverse childhood experiences... Read more

The Backlash to Larry Fink’s Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investor with $6 trillion under management, evoked heated controversy with his remarks last week that his company would change its hiring and potentially its compensation structure to advance diversity and ensure that five years from now the... Read more

A Conversation on Creating Shared Value at Davos

Today we met with 25 investors and corporate leaders in Davos to discuss the changes needed to get more investors to allocate resources to shared value companies.

As highlighted by Michael Porter at the May 2018 Shared Leadership Value Summit,... Read more

New from FSG and GEO: Engaging Boards and Trustees in Strategic Learning

Nearly a decade ago, FSG published What’s the Difference: How Foundation Trustees View Evaluation, exploring how boards and trustees were thinking about evaluation, and providing... Read more

FSG Staff Share Highlights from 2018

We are grateful and humbled to work alongside clients and partners around the globe on a wide range of pressing social impact issues. Below FSG staff share some of their most memorable moments from the past year.

We’re inspired by the positive impact you’re... Read more

Lessons from Embedding Gender Equity in Our Work

Applying a gender equity lens is critical in designing interventions that lead to better outcomes for all. We recognize, however, that many organizations embedding a gender lens in their work struggle with significant practical challenges.

Through much of our global development and... Read more

To Improve the Lives of Students, Two Communities Learn to Relate Differently

This essay was first published by Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is part of a series written by leading education practitioners in response to a Carnegie Corporation of New York ... Read more

How Community Foundations Can Better Coordinate Responses to Disasters

Last month, Hurricane Michael devastated and left a trail of destruction along Florida and Georgia. Two months ago, Hurricane Florence left the Carolinas under water. Last year, Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast, Houston, and its surrounding areas, creating a... Read more

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