Frugal Innovation for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Crises
Organizations that reuse, repurpose, recombine, and rapidly innovate under resource and time pressures can help build a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Scaling Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact
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Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow
A consortium of more than 190 professors focused on impact investing share new insights into the rapidly changing field at a critical juncture in its development.
Building Capacity for Sustained Collaboration
Foundations helping nonprofits build their capacity to execute sustained collaborations are catalyzing an important shift on the nonprofit landscape and having an outsized impact on the ground.
Creating a University From Scratch
How Minerva is reimagining higher education now and partnering to scale for impact in the future. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Why Conservation Needs a New Way to Scale
Conventional routes to scaling impact don’t always work. Conservation nonprofits and social ventures should be wary of the lure of a large partner and consider replicating from the grassroots instead.
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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.