Scaling
Why We Didn’t Fund Your Scaling Plan
A checklist to avoid common problems that funders have identified in evaluating applications.
Tag: Social Impact
Measurement & Evaluation
Determining the Greatest Odds for Social Good
How social venture investors can better track the performance of their investments, gauge their viability, and identify projects with the greatest chance of achieving social good.
Measurement & Evaluation
Unpacking the Theory of Change
The term “theory of change” is as popular as it is confusing. By gaining a clearer understanding of its various interpretations, practitioners in the social sector can more effectively implement and assess their interventions.
Impact Investing
How Investors Can Integrate Social Impact With Financial Performance to Improve Both
The Impact Frontiers Collaboration developed four steps to help investors integrate impact with financial analysis in their decision-making. It could change the way investors around the world allocate capital to achieve financial, social, and environmental goals.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2018
Highlights from the magazine and website.
Excerpt
Business
How Business Can Accelerate Africa’s Development
An excerpt from Africa's Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World's Next Big Growth Market shows how "doing good" and "doing well" go hand-in-hand.
Business
Three Ways Businesses Can Improve Their Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs
Corporate programs that focus on women’s economic empowerment need to incorporate women-centered, context-specific design and business-aligned measurement from the start.
Business
Leading with Purpose: The New Business Norm?
How purpose can attract more consumers, build deeper bonds, and amplify brand messages.
Scaling
Why Proven Solutions Struggle to Scale Up
Many social innovations fail because they are unable to bridge the “stagnation chasm.” Here is a look at the resources, ecosystems, and skills needed to overcome it.
Impact Investing
Philanthropists Must Invest in an Ecology of Change
How a “social movement ecology” framework lent new insights into substantially reducing incarceration in the United States.