From Beneficiaries to Business Partners
There’s a real opportunity for nonprofits to become true business partners with companies they used to approach only for donations.
There’s a real opportunity for nonprofits to become true business partners with companies they used to approach only for donations.
An often missing but critical part of achieving social change is supporting individuals who can make connections outside of a field of advocacy or practice.
How network entrepreneurs can catalyze large-scale social impact through a process that applies to networks across all systems and sectors.
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.
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.