When Schooling Doesn’t Mean Learning
In India, a simple, citizen-led assessment is helping citizens gauge children’s learning levels—and challenging a deep-seated belief that going to school means getting an education.
Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact (more)
In India, a simple, citizen-led assessment is helping citizens gauge children’s learning levels—and challenging a deep-seated belief that going to school means getting an education.
For solutions to get to scale, we need strong entrepreneurs who can build on existing breakthrough ideas, rather than creating entirely new ones.
More social innovators need to ask themselves whether the products and services they offer are actually new—and whether they in fact benefit the people they aim to help.
Transforming into banks has given microfinance institutions greater sustainability, but perhaps at the cost of mission drift.
iCare is enabling Southeast Asian workers to purchase the basic goods of middle-class life without falling into debt.
There might be no better guide than Indian nonprofits for how to successfully scale up when resources are scarce.
Focusing on reducing costs can be the key to unlocking results at greater scale. Nonprofits in India and the United States provide important lessons for NGOs around the world on just how to do that.
There is no rigid recipe for scaling quality learning, but successful efforts require attention to design and delivery, stable access to finance, and an enabling policy environment.