Beyond Aid
As leaders across sectors convene to discuss the new global agenda, the opportunity to collaborate on a new breed of large-scale development projects known as innovative financing has never been brighter.
Scaling Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact
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Corporate Impact Venturing: A New Path to Sustainability
A new report highlights the power of venture capital to source sustainable business innovations.
Time for Social Entrepreneurs to Share the Spotlight
While we universally applaud social entrepreneurs, another model of social change could unlock even greater levels of participation.
Structural Revolution and the Social Sector
How field-level strategies could help shift the social sector toward a relentless focus on maximizing impact.
Is Your Nonprofit Really Ready to Use the Lean Startup?
Four lessons from the front line.
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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.