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- Corporate/CSR, Global Health, U.S. Health
The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress
The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…
- Foundation Strategy
Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders
Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.
Competing by Saving Lives: More Stories of Implementation
June 26, 2012Earlier this month, vlogۿ and GBCHealth co-hosted a webinar on how pharmaceutical and medical device companies can create shared value in global health, building…
Shared Value in Côte D’Ivoire: Creating a Vibrant Cocoa Sector
June 26, 2012A few years ago, Mars was faced with the realization that we needed another Côte d’Ivoire to produce enough cocoa to meet the world’s growing choco…
Watch & Share 3 New Collective Impact Videos
June 25, 2012There is no question: collective impact is spreading like wildfire! Since the first Stanford Social Innovation Review article on the concept was published in t…
Saving the Lives of the Under Fives
June 19, 2012If you have ever worried about your own sick child, you can appreciate how frantic, desperate and helpless you would feel if you lived in the handful of countr…
The Trouble with Wrongly Defining the Problem
June 18, 2012My esteemed colleague Jeff Kutash told me last week that he’d seen a study that says that the good news is that these days low income children have more “scree…
Making Collective Impact Work: Discipline, Adaptability, and Sitting Down to Family Dinner
June 18, 2012Hello Fellow Fans of Collective Impact!
Measuring Shared Value – The Cart Before the Horse?
June 13, 2012This post originally appeared on CECP's blog.If you don’t fully understand the concept of “shared value,” I can assure you you’re not alone.
New Ideas for Developing Great Leaders in Education
June 13, 2012What makes a great leader in the education system today? It’s a question that I’ve considered at different points in my career -- as a consultant at vlogۿ, certa…
Is This the Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy?
June 12, 2012In his Spring 2012 Stanford Social Innovation Review column on “A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy,” Paul Brest, the outgoing president of the William a…
A Shared Value Community of Practice
June 11, 2012Eighty-five individuals – mostly senior corporate executives – gathered at the Charles Hotel in Boston on May 31 to spend a day deepening their practice of Sha…