Areas of Expertise
Over the past 20 years, FSG has developed specific expertise in a number of key areas through our work with foundations, corporations, nonprofits, and governments around the world:
Collective Impact
FSG offers comprehensive support in the design and launch of collective impact efforts, including planning support, facilitation of strategy selection, and analysis and guidance for the development of shared measurement systems. We also offer evaluation of collective impact efforts at different stages of maturity. Learn more >
Corporate Racial Equity
Corporate Social Responsibility
FSG helps companies develop and strengthen strategies for corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, and sustainability efforts. We analyze and improve CSR and societal engagement portfolios, and identify goal-oriented investment and partnership opportunities. We also work with companies to design “signature initiatives” that position companies as leaders in creating business-aligned societal impact. Learn more >
Economic Development
FSG partners with a variety of sector leaders to expand economic opportunity and vitality for communities around the world. Our goal is to help our clients and partners work together more intentionally, nimbly, collaboratively, and for the long haul, to disrupt the cycle of poverty for individuals and communities. Learn more >
Education & Youth
FSG partners with foundations, university systems, national nonprofits, school districts, and corporations to improve academic and developmental outcomes for youth. We help our clients develop and evaluate strategies that support children along the cradle to career continuum. Learn more >
Foundation Strategy
Since 2000, FSG has advised the world’s leading philanthropic organizations on how to best leverage their resources to improve lives around the world. Our services range from addressing specific strategic questions to the comprehensive design, implementation, and evaluation of strategic initiatives. Learn more >
Gender
FSG partners with corporations, foundations, nonprofits, and collaboratives to accelerate gender equity through research, evaluation, strategy, and collaboration. Learn more >
Global Development
FSG partners with our clients and funders to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative approaches to improve the lives of the world’s poor. We advise foundations, corporations, NGOs, and public sector organizations, individually and collectively, on strategies to address a range of development issues. We also develop innovative, market-based solutions to address social problems by combining targeted analytics with deep industry facilitation to foster development of inclusive markets. Learn more >
Global Health
FSG’s global health practice engages with organizations and partnerships towards improved and more equitable access to quality health services and products globally, including in low- and middle-income countries. We take a systems approach to global health challenges and believe in the power of cross-sector—and often unconventional—collaborations. Learn more >
Inclusive Markets
FSG brings companies, investors, funders, and governments together to develop strategies to scale inclusive business models, and conducts and publishes research to make these enterprises more effective. Learn more >
Opportunity Employment
Purpose-Led Companies
Shared Value
FSG offers a range of shared value services to companies, from targeted efforts to address specific questions about how a company can create shared value to in-depth multi-year engagements that accompany clients from early-stage vision through implementation to realize business opportunities. FSG also provides measurement services to enable tracking and learning. Learn more >
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
FSG’s Strategic Learning & Evaluation practice helps private, community, family, and corporate foundations, and nonprofits understand the progress and impact of their investments and develop the supports needed to continually learn from their work. We employ a variety of approaches, methods, and processes to provide timely, credible, and useful information and frameworks that our partners can act upon to increase effectiveness and impact. Learn more >
Systems Thinking
FSG understands that social change is about systems change. We support social change leaders and their teams in applying the principles and practices of systems thinking to their work using a variety of tools and approaches. Learn more >
U.S. Health
FSG works with foundations and corporations to create a society where everyone lives in healthy communities and the benefit of good health is equally accessible to all. Learn more >
Case Studies
- Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Promoting Mental Health
FSG supported the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health in shifting their focus from treating mental illness to promoting mental…
- St. David's Foundation
Investing in Social Determinants of Health
FSG supported St. David’s Foundation in creating a strategic plan with greater focus on the social and structural determinants…
- Operation Youth Success
Improving Douglas County, Nebraska’s Juvenile Justice System
FSG worked with Operation Youth Success to transform the juvenile justice system and improve youth outcomes in Douglas County,…
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Supporting a Culture of Health
FSG worked with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation leaders and staff over a 2-year period to embrace an emergent strategy…
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