The “How” and “Who” of Emerging Market Tech Uptake
The dynamics of technology are changing rapidly in emerging markets, but leaders don’t necessarily agree on all the details.
The dynamics of technology are changing rapidly in emerging markets, but leaders don’t necessarily agree on all the details.
Growth in developing country health markets is driving new health care solutions—an aggregate look at developments in pro-poor health care over the past year.
Four thoughts on how researchers and organizations can reliably take the leap from proven research to operationalization at scale.
Nancy Roob shares how the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.
Deval Sanghavi, head of the venture philanthropy fund Dasra, describes his work testing and building new platforms for giving in India.
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.