Social Enterprise
Franchising Entrepreneur Training
A social franchise offers business education and mentorship to help the world’s poorest workers maximize their earning potential.
Tag: Franchising
Podcast
Water & Sanitation
The Business of Water
Jibu franchises make clean drinking water affordable for Africa’s booming urban populations and provide economic opportunity to a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Scaling
The Promise of Social Sector Franchising
The massive growth of commercial franchises like McDonald’s offers inspiration for scaling social impact. Although still very young, social sector franchising is spawning an array of successful enterprises that offer lessons for further expansion.
Health
A Nonprofit Networked Platform for Global Health
Project ECHO developed a revolutionary model for helping doctors and clinicians in New Mexico to treat hepatitis C. It spread around the world to address numerous chronic diseases. With the COVID-19 pandemic, it found its moment.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Building Capacity for Sustained Collaboration
Foundations helping nonprofits build their capacity to execute sustained collaborations are catalyzing an important shift on the nonprofit landscape and having an outsized impact on the ground.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How One National Nonprofit Is Adapting to COVID-19
Lessons learned at Friends of the Children about maintaining stability in service during this crisis and the next one.
Social Enterprise
The Many Roads to Revenue Generation
Nonprofits that wish to integrate revenue-generating activities into their operations must think strategically about who will benefit from them and how they will further their social mission. A feature story from the Fall 2019 issue.
Measurement & Evaluation
Selecting the Right Growth Metrics: Fewer but Better
Nonprofits have near-limitless metrics they can measure, but the key to success is identifying, monitoring, and responding to the few that really matter.
Scaling
A Relational Approach to Scaling Mission
Two organizing principles for moving beyond brand and enabling other organizations to advance the social change your organization seeks.
Health
A National Growth Plan Rooted in One State’s Success
Why one successful youth program resisted the urge to expand too quickly.