Scaling Impact
Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking
Edited by Paul N. Bloom and Edward Skloot Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems a local or limited basis and scale them up to expand their impact in a more widespread, deeper, and efficient way. The editors address this issue with a comprehensive collection of original papers written […]
Approaches to Scaling Social Impact
By John Kalafatas Organizations face many options about what to scale and how to scale their impact. The spectrum of goals and strategies for creating and scaling social impact ranges from impact through direct service to impact through indirect influence. This short PowerPoint document provides a framework or “tool box” of goals and strategies to […]
2005 Practitioner Survey on Scaling Social Impact
In November, 2005, CASE worked with Princeton Survey Research Associates International to conduct an exploratory survey of practitioners to understand their past practices, future plans, and assumptions about scaling social impact. Sent to 764 recognized social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders, the survey yielded a 20% response rate and 151 completed questionnaires. This survey is an […]
Scaling Social Impact
By J. Gregory Dees, Beth Battle Anderson and Jane Wei-Skillern Arguing that social entrepreneurs have commonly sought to spread or “scale out” their innovations by replicating or “scaling up” their organizations, this article offers a framework for a larger set of pathways from which to choose. The authors encourage social entrepreneurs to consider different ways […]
Scaling Social Impact: Strategies for Spreading Social Innovations
By J. Gregory Dees, Beth Battle Anderson and Jane Wei-Skillern How can social entrepreneurs effectively scale their impact to reach the many people and communities that could benefit from their innovations? As policy expert and author Lisbeth Schorr observed: “We have learned to create the small exceptions that can change the lives of hundreds. But […]
The Growth of YouthBuild: A Case Study
By Ayse Guclu, J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson From its roots in 1978 as a project of the Youth Action Program in East Harlem, by early 2003, the YouthBuild movement had grown to encompass a network of over 200 local sites nationwide. We selected YouthBuild because it raises crucial strategic questions that will […]
Scaling Social Impact: Strategies for Spreading Social Innovations
By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson This presentation provides guidance for addressing the challenge of “scaling out” – spreading social sector innovations into new geographic locations in order to achieve greater impact. In addition to offering a four-stage strategic decision making process, this document provides guidance on what and how to scale out, […]
Pathways to Social Impact: Strategies for Scaling Out Successful Social Innovations
By J. Gregory Dees, Beth Battle Anderson and Jane Wei-Skillern Includes a matrix of options for how to scale social impact. More comprehensive treatment of article above. The authors encourage social entrepreneurs to consider different ways of both defining and spreading their innovations before determining whether and how to proceed. Presents a framework for evaluating […]