The year 2021 marks 10 years since the publication of the article “Collective Impact” in Stanford Social Innovation Review, authored by my FSG colleagues John Kania and Mark Kramer. In 2013 – 2014,…
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Society is asking the private sector to play a larger role in advancing equity. For the second year in a row, respondents to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer ranked business as the…
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In his message launching the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on April 4, 2022, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres offered the following chilling observation: “Climate scientists warn…
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Click here for more.Repeat after me: “It’s Not Your Money.” One more time: “It’s Not Your Money.” If you work in the world of philanthropy, have you ever said that sentence out loud…
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Rooted in the notion that working together leads to greater impact, knowledge, and opportunity, a philanthropic collaborative is a model in which funders (and sometimes other participants) join forces to…
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The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective (EJRC) at the Kataly Foundation is a group of nine women of color movement leaders who have a long history of engagement in intersectional environmental…
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We are currently facing some of the biggest crises of our time—climate change, learning loss, global health inequities, and more—and we need new approaches if we are to make meaningful…
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In this episode, our guest is Ashindi Maxton. She is a co-founder and former executive director of the Donors of Color Network, an organization that offers a philanthropic and political home…
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Liz Gadd was recently interviewed by Sam Davies, host of the Charity Chat podcast, on how social and environmental charities and funders should work together. We need to better understand how the…
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Today, local community development financial institutions (CDFIs) NewCorp, Inc. and TruFund Financial Services, Inc. announce a new collaboration with the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund (EOCF) aimed at expanding access to capital and other resources to minority-owned…
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Click here for more.In 2019, foundation giving totaled $76 billion. Black and Latinx founders only received approximately 4% of that $76 billion, despite making up 29% of the population. In this piece, Yulkendy Valdez,…
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Click here for more.3M, Mars, Nestlé and Earthworm Foundation are partnering with the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation in British Columbia, Canada to help respect their rights to decide how their territory is…