Banking on Microfinance
Transforming into banks has given microfinance institutions greater sustainability, but perhaps at the cost of mission drift.
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Workers of the World, Buy!
iCare is enabling Southeast Asian workers to purchase the basic goods of middle-class life without falling into debt.
Why Indian Nonprofits Are Experts at Scaling Up
There might be no better guide than Indian nonprofits for how to successfully scale up when resources are scarce.
Cutting Costs to Increase Impact
Focusing on reducing costs can be the key to unlocking results at greater scale. Nonprofits in India and the United States provide important lessons for NGOs around the world on just how to do that.
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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.