Sectors, Not Just Firms
Part I in Omidyar Network’s case for a sector-based approach to impact investing.
Part I in Omidyar Network’s case for a sector-based approach to impact investing.
Social media investments will not drive a new economy powerful and pervasive enough to employ millions of people.
Open innovation enables behaviors that lay the groundwork for scale.
It is time to move from innovation as an ideology to innovation as a process.
A look at new schools in Sweden that provide personalized and hands-on classroom experience.
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.