Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

The biggest obstacle to scale for the social sector is this lack of effective funding models. There are $700 billion of foundation assets, and 10 million people working for non-profits. This makes it impossible for social organizations to scale. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and the Bridgespan Group.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Furthermore, we learned that this mode of giving delivers a greater impact to the community because it helps fill critical capability gaps in nonprofits. For example, if a nonprofit is experiencing an issue with hiring, we provide human capital consultants to help them revamp their process.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

At the Rapid Results Institute, a nonprofit spin-off of our firm, Schaffer Consulting, we recently joined the 100,000 Homes Campaign (on the Community Solutions team) to help federal agencies organize Rapid Results Housing Boot Camps in San Diego, Orlando, and Houston.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

There is a tacit vested interest among public, private and nonprofit capital providers in the status quo. The banks have retreated from that business — pursuing economies of scale, rather than helping scale up small companies. This is not a recipe for growth. What is missing in cities is not revitalizing new ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. A parallel transformation is now taking hold in the nonprofit sector. As a result, College Summit began to question how it could scale its impact without increasing its size. How Nonprofits Prove Their Worth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

For social impact organizations to scale in the same way entrepreneurial tech companies do, investors need to increase their tolerance for non-moral failure. This is the only way foundations and other funders can maximize the social benefit from their assets, and move the needle on solving persistent social issues.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Data from a startup nonprofit called GiveDirectly changed my opinion. Last fall, my team huddled in a room to review our pipeline for the Global Impact Awards , Google's program to support entrepreneurial nonprofits using technology to change the world. Paul and Michael shared all of this data with us last fall and left us convinced.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

One Acre Fund (a nonprofit where Matthew is on the board and Stephanie on the staff) serves 135,000 of the poorest smallholder farmers in East Africa, on average doubling the profits they generate from farming. Follow the Scaling Social Impact insight center on Twitter @ScalingSocial and register to stay informed and give us feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

At the Rapid Results Institute, a nonprofit spin-off of our firm, Schaffer Consulting, we recently joined the 100,000 Homes Campaign (on the Community Solutions team) to help federal agencies organize Rapid Results Housing Boot Camps in San Diego, Orlando, and Houston.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

As the great midlife migration of baby boomers gathers momentum and scale, long-predicted revolutions in longevity and demography are unfolding in front of us. The nonprofit helps thousands of young people apply their talents to solving significant social problems, starting by working in schools that need more support.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Finally, corporations can share data with a limited number of trusted intermediaries, such as the UK’s Consumer Data Research Centre and the international development nonprofit NetHope , to enable data analysis and modeling, as well as other value chain activities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The scope and scale of Hurricane Sandy and her impact on cities like New York has helped bring five critical realities into much clearer focus: Extreme weather events are happening more frequently than ever before.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

And recently, the head of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, called on all companies to explain how their businesses make “a positive contribution to society” beyond just financial performance. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

The nonprofit sector has limbs. When I say, “the nonprofit sector” here, I really mean what the public thinks of as “charities.” ” When I think of charities I think of the health and human services portion of the nonprofit sector. One big qualification. “There are too many egos involved!”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

Today, they are producing the workforce of tomorrow – at scale. The City of Mesa is home to one of the nation’s most unique assets for cybersecurity companies: Arizona Laboratory for Security and Defense Research (AZLabs). Talent is critical in this effort, and Arizona’s educational institutions are ahead of the game.

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Peter Winick

MAY 8, 2025

The power of thought leadership in solving nonprofit fundraising challenges. Nonprofit organizations often struggle to scale due to weak fundraising and limited business acumen, despite having powerful missions. Have you ever wondered why some nonprofits make a huge impact while others struggle to grow?

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