Measuring the Impact of Training the Trainers: Lessons From Pilots and Plastic Surgeons
How can organizations quantify the impact of the train-the-trainers model? A pioneering new study from a health-care nonprofit offers a template.
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In Defense of Big Bets
The movement to mobilize big bets in philanthropy is growing. Let’s not dissuade potential donors by framing it as “a new way to fail.”
Big Bet Bummer
We need big bet philanthropy. We also need it to change.
Digital Public Infrastructure for the Developing World
The “India Stack” provides a model for how developing economies can empower informal business and drive inclusive growth.
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A Swiss Army Knife for Impact
An excerpt from Scaling Altruism on creating a business plan for nonprofit growth
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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.