The Hidden Dimensions of Scale
Examples from South Asia show there’s more to successful scaling than replicating a good model.
Examples from South Asia show there’s more to successful scaling than replicating a good model.
Part 3 of 3: Bring talent to solve underserved market inefficiencies, not just intention.
Investors and philanthropists must work together to generate more ecologically responsible and locally grown food for more people.
Are you ignoring your richest intel? How organizations can yield a wealth of valuable data through story-based research.
Too many smart people are trying to come up with too many new solutions; fostering plagiarism of successful models is the fastest track to systems change.
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.