Breaking Down Barriers to Mobile Health Care
Scaling mobile health care can address long-standing health-care system distribution and prevention problems in the United States that cost people their lives.
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Scaling Community-Grown Solutions
What savings groups can teach the social sector about partnering with governments for systems change.
Laying the Groundwork for Government-Led Poverty Reduction
Four priorities for NGOs turning to local government partnerships in the face of funding cuts to help build lasting, large-scale solutions to poverty.
How NGOs Can Act as Learning Labs for Government
As global aid declines, new learning partnership models between NGOs and government will play a critical role in scaling and sustaining health reform in low- and middle-income countries.
The Parental Difference
A nationwide educational program in Mexico that dispatched mentors to schools succeeded by sparking greater parental involvement.
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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.