When Building a Field Requires Building a New Organization
Starting a new organization to fill a gap in a field is a bold and difficult step, but four strategies can help ensure success.
Scaling Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact
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Dance Revolution
The Wooden Floor is licensing its successful model of using arts education to break the cycle of poverty.
“Blitzscaling” for Greater Good
Opportunities for nonprofits to dramatically scale don’t happen often, but when they do, fast-growing for-profits offer some valuable lessons.
Developing Media Messages That Save Lives
Keeping attention on an issue in a constantly evolving media landscape requires that nonprofits think flexibly.
The “Magical Space” Where Technology Increases Impact
The key to using technology for social impact at scale lies somewhere between doing the same thing better and true disruption.
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How Nonprofits Get Really Big
Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.
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.
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.
Ten Reasons Not to Measure Impact—and What to Do Instead
Impact evaluations are an important tool for learning about effective solutions to social problems, but they are a good investment only in the right circumstances.
Scaling Impact
Scaling requires not only fidelity to core processes and programs, but also constant adjustments to local needs and resources.