The Secret to Transformative Scale: Hire Right
When it comes to an organization’s ability to achieve impact, outstanding people make the difference.
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When the Rhythm Changes, So Must the Dance
Why careful listening is important to starting and scaling positive social change.
The Road to Scale Runs Through Improved Donor Strategies
Less donor fragmentation can lead to impact at a transformative scale.
Planning Meets Strategy
The work of transforming an organization starts with a readiness to question its scale, its scope, and even its core identity.
Franchising a “Fireball”
Aflatoun, a global social and financial education program, is relying on partnerships rather than centralized control to scale up.
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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.