Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Change on a grand scale requires people to come together in new and different ways, and to reimagine what’s possible. The funding and oversight of these projects was a role typically played by philanthropy and nonprofits. Standard performance metrics for these big audacious outcomes do not exist. This is not an easy task.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The basic facts were established in a 2012 study by The Bridgespan Group in the Stanford Social Innovation Review , which looked at the more than 200,000 nonprofit organizations founded between 1975 and 2008 to determine how many had grown to $50 million or more in annual revenues. Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Yes, there are other varieties, like nonprofit firms and government-sponsored enterprises, but for-profit firms are assumed to be the center of the economic system. Until we address it, we're just treating symptoms, and our reform efforts will not reach the scale and speed required to avert the looming storm. Seeds of a New Capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

By plugging into local neighborhoods via an existing organization's programs and accountability metrics, we believe Starbucks can create more tangible, sustainable improvements. These two initiatives simply pave the way for us to have a more large-scale impact. in particular is high unemployment. We are not done.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

While such a presentation isolates the performance of individual metrics, it does not allow a simultaneous comparison across the multiple relevant outcome dimensions and certainly does not incorporate costs. The costs of treating any medical condition over a complete care cycle cannot be attributed to any individual outcome metric.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

Take Ushahidi , a nonprofit tech company using the internet and mobile applications to crowd source information during natural disasters, epidemics, and political crises. There's also Khan Academy, the nonprofit website that removes economic barriers to education by putting free video tutorials online.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. For us the question is not how do you grow organizations but how do you scale impact?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Awash in data, an organization — be it a healthcare nonprofit, a government agency, or a tech company — desperately wants to capitalize on the insights that the "Big Data" hype has promised them. At DataKind we run "DataDives", weekend events that team nonprofits with pro bono data scientists to solve tough social problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

These financial products create a risk-bearing financial arrangement between public, private, and nonprofit organizations. If Roca meets certain goals related to preventing released prisoners from ending up back in jail, the state will repay the investors their principal, with a sliding scale of profit tied to degree of success.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Like Zuckerberg, he wanted to broaden the range of tools he could apply for social change — including not just grants to nonprofits but also “impact investments” into mission-driven, for-profit companies. Some observers worry that it diverts money away from worthy nonprofits.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Here’s how: Lower risk by scaling the intended new action down so it’s manageable, and less frightening. With your boss, for example, agree on a metric (e.g., Then, figure out a simple way to collect data on this metric so you can quickly capture the results of your experiment and inform any further adjustments.

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Metrics Scaling Nonprofit Benefits 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

To do this they apply the same discipline to their charitable work that they do to their core business--insisting on strategic focus, investing at scale and measuring results. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Digging a little deeper, it doesn't seem to matter whether these experienced founders had started nonprofit organizations or for-profit companies. The B Impact Assessments quantify the overall company impact on workers, communities and the environment in a score that ranges from zero to 200 based on more than 200 carefully-designed metrics.

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Nonprofit Revenue Scaling Banking 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Its primary social metric is the number of lives reached in base-of-pyramid markets. One of its primary metrics is the expected increase in lifetime earnings of its clients. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group. Why Don't the Best Nonprofits Grow? Accountants Will Save the World.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In 2014 the Taproot Foundation wanted to create a digital service that would connect nonprofit organizations with skilled professionals who wanted to donate their services. This was our success metric: X and Y participants; Z matches; percentage of completed projects. (We Case Study: Putting This into Practice.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

With this in mind, we founded the nonprofit Partners in Food Solutions (PFS). Veronica sells her cotton to Cargill, and her corn to COMACO, a local nonprofit that markets food to consumers while also striving to save wild animals and ecosystems. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

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BCW Institute

MAY 2, 2022

It can be nonprofit. We were continuing to experience growth, just leading up to COVID, and I ran into Traction and also The Rockefeller Habits , and I’m trying to remember, Scaling Up —. I’ve read Scaling Up. This book is designed for you, a Christian leader in business, a church, or a nonprofit. Al: Right, yeah.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

That's because most discussions related to big change are about tactics rather than strategy at the scale of the question — and nothing's more depressing than a tactical discussion when a strategic one is required. The humanitarian sector, also known as the nonprofit sector, for starters. Is the nonprofit sector even relevant?

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Nonprofit Government Strategic Planning Scaling 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Metrics like these may reassure donors, or give one INGO more influence than another, but they shed little light on whether these interventions brought a district closer to a point where INGOs are no longer needed. Nonprofit Social enterprise Strategic planning' Either way, we exit.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

As new tech platforms hit scale, we on the consumer team have been closely watching the future of media and the technology driving it — in all forms. Non-media businesses and nonprofits that also produce podcasts. There are now over 700K free podcasts available and thousands more launching each week.

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Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is a nonprofit funded by Singapore’s global investor, Temasek. Rajeev Peshawaria We are defining success by a simple metric, and that is if we can convince two out of every ten people that we touch to consider steward leadership, we will be hugely successful. We look at when it works and when it doesn’t work.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

As new tech platforms hit scale, we on the consumer team have been closely watching the future of media and the technology driving it — in all forms. Non-media businesses and nonprofits that also produce podcasts. There are now over 700K free podcasts available and thousands more launching each week.

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Peter Winick

MAY 26, 2025

Your dashboard on metrics and performance, that needle isn’t going to move now that you’ve stepped away, but you’re giving this gift. Take them to scale through the practice of thought leadership. But you’re not sitting as an executive anymore. Bill Sherman The Ennenberg in a minute, but yes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They also rely on additional evidence collected from household surveys across many countries by MEASURE DHS and the World Health Organization to show that the people who receive nets distributed in the type of real-world, large-scale distributions that AMF supports use them about as consistently as those who received them in the rigorous trials.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They also rely on additional evidence collected from household surveys across many countries by MEASURE DHS and the World Health Organization to show that the people who receive nets distributed in the type of real-world, large-scale distributions that AMF supports use them about as consistently as those who received them in the rigorous trials.

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