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Gender Equality is Not Just a Women’s Issue

In the pursuit of achieving gender equality, the focus has often been on women: how to remove barriers for the inclusion of women, how to empower women, how to ensure that women gain access to health, economic, educational, and other opportunities. Since inequities are often created by unequal... 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

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

The Gender Diversity and Inclusion Imperative: An Interview with Inez Murray

The Global Banking Alliance for Women (GBA) is a peer learning network of financial services providers working around the world to tap into the power of the women’s market. Led by Inez Murray, the GBA’s Chief Executive Officer, the organization launched a Working Group on gender diversity and... Read more

Four Guiding Principles for Rethinking Your Workforce

With 46 percent of employers reporting difficulty filling jobs and looming... Read more

Rewiring Employment in a New Age

An employment crisis is brewing. Recent research on the impact of artificial intelligence and automation estimates that there will be... Read more

Second Impact Hiring Innovation Lab Cohort Kicks Off in New Orleans

HR, operations, and corporate social responsibility leaders from Caterpillar (and two of their dealerships: Alban and Blanchard), Dave’s Killer Bread, Entergy, Tyson, and Patagonia met in New Orleans last month for the kick-off of the Impact Hiring Initiative’s Innovation Lab—a program designed... Read more

How the Orange County Community Foundation is Increasing Youth Resilience

ACT Anaheim, an initiative designed to address the needs of at-risk youth and families with a focus on 13-18 year-olds, was formed in 2013 by The Disneyland Resort, Angels Baseball, and the Anaheim Ducks National Hockey team, with the Orange County Community Foundation (OCCF) serving as managing... Read more

Discussing Opportunity Youth and Impact Hiring with House Committee on Education and the Workforce

Earlier this week, I had the honor of serving on a panel of Opportunity Youth practitioners and experts presenting to the House of Representative’s Committee on Education and the Workforce about the business value of hiring Opportunity Youth.

Five Lessons from Walmart’s CSR Strategy Efforts

“We think of ourselves as social change strategists,” explained Gayatri Agnew, Director of Career Opportunity at the Walmart Foundation, distinguishing the aspirations for... Read more

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