Becoming the Sustainability We Seek
So focused on short-term funding for survival, the nonprofit sector is losing its ability to implement innovative solutions to the world’s problems.
Scaling Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact
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How Do You Create a New Normal? A Three-Part Path to Scale
At Social Impact Exchange, a forum dedicated to scaling high-impact social programs, investors wanted to know “How will your idea achieve scale?”
Dr. Madhav Chavan
An interview with Dr. Madhav Chavan, CEO of Pratham, a nonprofit that provides quality education to underprivileged children of India.
Local Empowerment Through Rapid Results
Why local ownership and commitment are the exception in most development efforts—and what development professionals can do about this problem.
One Acre at a Time
One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.
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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.