Attracting the Right Financing for First-Stage Scaling
Growing social enterprises from incubation to first-stage scaling opens up the need to attract different types of investments. The last of a three-part series.
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Emerging Pathways to Transformative Scale
The cofounder of and a consultant at The Bridgespan Group elaborate on important strategies for scaling up social impact.
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From Innovation to Results
The director of the Social Innovation Fund explains how the fund balances innovation and support for proven programs.
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With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Centering Equity in Collective Impact
A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.
Measuring Social Value
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
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To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
Racial bias creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process. The result is that nonprofits led by people of color receive less money than those led by whites, and philanthropy ends up reinforcing the very social ills it says it is trying to overcome.