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Scaling - Most Popular
Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact (more)
Why We Didn’t Fund Your Scaling Plan
A checklist to avoid common problems that funders have identified in evaluating applications.
SSIR’s 2022 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including cities, the imagination, disruption, capitalism, and careers.
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Housing and Local Solutions: Elevating What Works
Local initiatives are breaking new ground to make access to housing and opportunity more affordable and equitable and to increase the resources dedicated to housing justice.
Thinking and Acting Like a Platform Will Help Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact at Scale
Platform thinking pushes social entrepreneurs to leave the role of the problem solver in favor of being an enabler of changemakers who can solve problems locally.
Rethinking Scale in Climate Solutions
How grassroots movements create durable and transformative impact.
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How (Not) to Scale a Nonprofit
Attempts to scale a successful, community-based nonprofit may have failed, but what the founder learned in the process is instructive for social entrepreneurs and philanthropists alike.
Building an Ecosystem of Community-Led Public Health
COVID-19 vaccine efforts showed how successfully centering communities can overcome mistrust and access barriers.
The Adoption of Innovation
How do innovations move from the edges to the core of what an organization does? For maximum impact, innovations must cease to be innovative and become institutionalized and normalized.
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What Business Leaders Bring to Tough Social Challenges
Many hold strong opinions about translating private-sector experience to social impact. Four pioneering founders have figured out how to make it work.