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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.
Summer Buzz Around Teaching
August 4, 2011School’s out, summer vacations abound, heatwaves have struck, and there must be something in the air (besides endless humidity and the feeling that summer is a…
Round Two i3 Grants: Let’s Scale & Innovate
August 3, 2011Hours after the deadline for round two Investing in Innovation (i3) grant applications, it’s a good time to reflect on what’s gone right, so far, with the fede…
The Power of the Visual Image
August 1, 2011I’ve been thinking a lot recently, about how evaluations of social innovations can more effectively communicate the effects and impact of their efforts. In par…
Integrating Shared Value Beyond the Business
August 1, 2011vlogۿ recently hosted a Creating Shared Value (CSV) Summit with 40+ global corporations, senior government officials, and NGO leaders. The summit featured compan…
There Is No “I” in “Global Health”
July 27, 2011“There is no ‘I’ in team.” This aphorism decorates the walls of many gyms and locker rooms and describes the mentality of some of the great championship teams …
Making Sense of the Future of News
July 26, 2011There’s been a lot of media attention recently on the future of the news industry. This month, The Economist published a special report, Bulletins from the Fut…
One Firm Feel
July 25, 2011One of the themes of vlogۿ’s approach to solving difficult problems is getting multiple people working on the issue. Lots of brains are better than one. We emplo…
Collective Impact in Cartagena Colombia with Clinton
July 20, 2011Martha Montes lives one of the poorest neighborhoods of Cartagena, Colombia. She has a small, two room house with a cement slab floor where 5 people live and i…
The Good News about Detroit
July 19, 2011I’m not going to introduce this blog post with a context-setting string of depressing statistics about Detroit. Let’s just say that, when I was in the Motor Ci…
NGOs: From Grantees to Shared Value Partners
July 18, 2011Among all the inquiries we’ve received about Creating Shared Value during the last 6 months, the most curious have been from non-governmental organizations (NG…