5 Myths Preventing Catalytic Capital From Going Where It’s Needed
Without a clear understanding of the gaps in the market, it is difficult for impact investors to develop sound strategies to fill them.
Without a clear understanding of the gaps in the market, it is difficult for impact investors to develop sound strategies to fill them.
An excerpt from Fragile Neighborhoods on hyperlocal change
For many nonprofits, achieving true scale might require something scary—relinquishing control of your best ideas.
Five years after passage of the Evidence Act, has it worked? And what's next?
How an innovative stakeholder-shareholder investment model is helping smallholder farmers grow and thrive.
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.