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Uniting to Protect Democracy for All

Like most of you, I’m still processing what happened yesterday at the U.S. Capitol. I was glued to the TV. Horror. Disbelief. Sadness. Resolve.

In my year-end reflections, I promised that I would not use the word “unprecedented” to describe current events but… what we saw yesterday was... Read more

End of Year Reflections 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 crisis invites us to accept that widespread suffering is inevitable when the threat is too large.

Certainly, COVID-19 and... Read more

SSIR Blog: What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital

In a post on Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG's Harvey Koh writes about how the catalytic capital questions of development finance institutions, private foundations, and other types of investors must be answered... Read more

Menstrual Health is Essential to “Build Back Better” Beyond COVID-19

Menstrual Hygiene Day this year holds particular significance. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing challenges related to menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) and is set to deepen inequities for women and girls around the world. Critical healthcare workers⁠—70% of whom are women... Read more

Rethinking Outcomes in a Crisis Context

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 to developing and deploying rapid response funding mechanisms and participating in broader, collaborative funding efforts, they... Read more

SSIR Blog: How Foundations Can Make Progress on Long-Term Social Change Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

In a post on Stanford Social Innovation Review, FSG's Rishi Agarwal writes on the potential for foundations to leverage the unique opportunities that COVID-19 will offer to move towards the long-term goal of building equitable and just societies.

Foundations: Remember Special Education in Your COVID and Post-COVID Investments

In March 2020, I wrote a blog that spoke to the philanthropic community’s need to support the quakes and tremors caused by the coronavirus pandemic. One such tremor presenting itself can be found in the realm of... Read more

Staying Agile in the Age of Lockdown

For about a year now FSG has been exploring how we can more effectively deliver on our work to help our clients create social impact. We’re examining our organizational culture and behaviors, our internal practices, policies, and processes, and evolving so that we can further live into... Read more

Seven Key Issues Affecting Women and Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic—And What You Can Do About Them

Despite its wide geographic spread, the COVID-19 pandemic has not affected everyone in the same way. The attempts of key decision-makers to limit the damage of COVID-19 involve each one of us, but the impacts of these choices are neither equally shared nor highly visible. As we have... Read more

Foundations Can Increase Payouts: Here’s How

The current COVID-19 crisis has created immense and unexpected hardship among many foundation grantees and the people they serve. Foundations are stepping up by finding innovative ways to go beyond their normal grantmaking, removing restrictions on the use of grant funds, accelerating... Read more

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