Disseminating Orphan Innovations
Disseminating innovations takes a distinct, sophisticated skill set, one that often requires customizing the program to new circumstances, not replicating.
Scaling Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact
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Market-Minded Development
Acumen Fund uses impact investing to tackle global poverty. It's approach has garnered attention, but does it change aid?
Ten for Ten: Philanthropy from 2010-2020
Rather than focus in (anymore than the buzzwords list already does) on the top 10 of the year gone by, let’s think about the factors that will shape philanthropy for the decade ahead.
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NewSchools Venture Summit
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Chairman of the House Committee on Education George Miller, address the NewSchools Summit 2010.
Collaborating To Achieve Scaled Impact
How we facilitate collaboration influences breakthroughs in innovation and scale.
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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.