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Scaling Up Innovations With Government
How to overcome the barriers that large institutions like the government put in the way of scaling up innovations.
How to overcome the barriers that large institutions like the government put in the way of scaling up innovations.
RSPN and Nesta teach lessons about achieving social impact in the Global South and North.
The role of donors in building broad social ecosystems for scaling up social innovations, particularly in the developing world.
More poor households benefit when the private and social sectors work together to build better environments for inclusive business.
The challenges of scaling up programs aimed at empowering adolescent girls in Bangladesh and Uganda.
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.
A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.
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.
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 requires not only fidelity to core processes and programs, but also constant adjustments to local needs and resources.