Using Social Incubation to Drive Local Innovation
A look at why and how social innovation can catalyze solutions for local problems from within the community, rather than by importing ideas from the outside.
Scaling Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact
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Impact Investing and a 200-year-old Debate
Three strategies investors can use to create impactful outcomes at scale.
Are Nonprofits Getting in the Way of Social Change?
Solving major social problems is now possible, but not unless the organizations that have been most responsible for making a difference change significantly.
More Than a Meal
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
Five Innovations That Will Electrify Africa
How a continent of over 1 billion off-grid customers can move from darkness to light over the next decade.
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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.