A Strategic Mess
Developing an impact strategy means embracing the murky problem of the future.
Developing an impact strategy means embracing the murky problem of the future.
An excerpt from There’s Nothing Micro about a Billion Women on how financial service providers can reduce inequality and build a more inclusive world by better serving women customers.
Chicago CRED proceeds from the belief that the individuals most at risk are not the problem—they are the solution.
Stories from Mozilla and Ford’s Tech & Society Fellowship, plus five lessons for funders.
An innovative approach to traffic safety cut fatalities in half on one of India’s most dangerous highways.
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.