Meeting the Challenges of Global Health
In bringing health care to the developing world, innovators can benefit from lessons others learned the hard way. Includes magazine extras.
In bringing health care to the developing world, innovators can benefit from lessons others learned the hard way. Includes magazine extras.
Supplement to the article “Meeting the Challenges of Global Health.”
The president and CEO of GEO describes what the organization learned over the course of its Scaling What Works initiative.
The cofounder of and a consultant at The Bridgespan Group elaborate on important strategies for scaling up social impact.
The VP of program at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation explains how her organization supports local nonprofits.
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.