Scaling
Getting to Scale: Size Matters. Shape Matters More.
Scale is a verb, not a noun: The trajectory and curve of impact are more important than the numbers.
Tag: Impact
Nonprofits & NGOs
Putting Participants at the Center of Managing and Leading Nonprofits
Participants are not simply the intended beneficiaries of nonprofit programs. Their organizational experience, in addition to their program experience, should guide nonprofit management to achieve more meaningful social impact.
Podcast
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Risk and Rewards of Mergers as a Nonprofit Growth Strategy
For nonprofits that want to grow more than incrementally, mergers present a big opportunity—and big risk.
Excerpt
Business
How Social Innovation Can Fight Terrorism
An excerpt from Compassionate Counterterrorism highlights development-based interventions that have deterred terrorist recruitment.
Scaling
To Impact Millions, the Social Sector Needs to Scale Scaling Up
Without bringing more rigor and resources to scaling impact efforts, the do-good industry will never make the exponential leaps needed to bring social innovations to millions of people.
Impact Investing
Three Community Feedback Tools for Impact Investors
Too often impact investors park customer insight at the door when focused on projects in poor communities. These approaches can help them learn what their target consumers really want. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
Leadership
An Operating Model to Make Social Innovation Stick
The former chief innovation officer at USAID outlines a way for social sector organizations and funders to build innovation into their DNA.
Impact Investing
How to Use Donor-Advised Funds to Make Impact Investments
There’s a vast missed opportunity to use DAFs for making impact investments in support of market-based solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Measurement & Evaluation
Evaluation with the End in Mind
How limited-life organizations can re-position evaluation as a tool to drive progress toward their end goals and measure the enduring impact of their efforts.
Leadership
Navigating Purpose and Collaboration in Social Impact Networks
Most models for developing networks for collaboration emphasize discovering or clarifying purpose as the first step. But purpose doesn’t always have to manifest in the form of a single vision or strategic plan shared among all participants.