Grow Your Impact

Scaling Impact

In reality, Scaling Impact is far more complex than we thought. The process is rarely a linear enterprise in which changemakers finalize the conditions for scaling in one big push. Instead, it is likely to be a relentless, long-term process of adaptation and change. Scaling requires organizations to be serious about learning from both successes and failures, and to have the capacity to build on those insights moving forward.

Social Enterprise

This stream helps organizations explore ideas for how they can further their social impact goals and generate revenue through an enterprise model. The focus is on helping established social-purpose organizations identify business opportunities, assess viability, and plan for launch.

Social Finance

Social finance enables organizations to access new money to enhance their impact. Social finance is repayable investment that supports positive social, environmental, and/or cultural impact. This stream helps organizations clarify a social finance project that is mission-aligned, impactful, and feasible. Additionally, organizations will understand the steps to use social finance and identify their readiness needs in order to pursue social finance investment.

Policy Engagement

Policy Engagement helps leaders of community-sector organizations understand, communicate, and work with policy-makers, practitioners, organizations, businesses, and/or segments of the public to promote policy changes that will advance the outcomes that their community seeks.

There is no one-size fits all in policy engagement processes. These are variable and impacted by numerous factors, including unpredictable changes and windows of opportunity in the political landscape. In addition, the intended impacts of such processes can take a long time to achieve.