Using Data To Power Scale
Big data, small data, lean data, data privacy, machine learning. Social enterprises are hiring data experts and investing critical resources into data strategies and infrastructure. At best, these investments can help drive better decision-making and increase the pace of scale. At worst, they can waste time and money, amplify biases, and lead to poor decisions and missed opportunities.
How can you navigate data challenges and drive better decision making at scale?
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About Scaling Pathways
How do social entrepreneurs and the funders who support them scale solutions to widespread problems, such as poverty and climate change?
The Innovation Investment Alliance and CASE at Duke University have partnered to create Scaling Pathways, an in-depth look at best practices and case studies for scaling impact.
The series includes:
• Pivoting to Impact: Diving into the critical global lessons learned and information vital to enterprises and funders trying to scale.
• Case Studies: Telling the stories of three organizations, their scaling strategies, pivots, successes, and failures on the road to scale.
• Thematic Studies: Detailing some best practices in financing, government partnerships, talent acquisition, pathways to scale, and data.
• Scaling Snapshots: Brief narratives on the scaling journies and strategies of leading social enterprises.
What is the Innovation Investment Alliance?
The Innovation Investment Alliance (IIA) is a funding and learning partnership between the Skoll Foundation and USAID’s Global Development Lab, with support from Mercy Corps, that has invested almost $50 million in eight proven, transformative social enterprises to scale their impact. Together, we aim to create systems-level change across sectors and geographies and draw out lessons on scaling that are applicable to the social enterprise community and inform the ongoing conversation on how to create sustainable impact at scale.
Scaling Pathways Publications
(more coming soon!)
Scaling Through Mass Disruption
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People Matter: Evolving Talent to Drive Impact at Scale
Get lessons from leading social enterprises on how they evolved talent strategies for scale
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Download the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Guide
Scaling Snapshots
Brief scaling journey narratives of four amazing social enterprises, including pathways and implications.
Downloads:
Fundacion Capital
Government Partnerships
Learn how to successfully leverage government partnerships
for scaled impact.
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Finance for Scaled Impact
Uncover strategies and lessons learned in navigating
which financing strategies to use and when.
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Pivoting to Impact
Addressing critical lessons learned on pathways to scaling impact across geographies and sectors.
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Case Study: Evidence Action
An in-depth study on Evidence Action, a Ugandan nonprofit creating access to clean water.
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Case Study: Imazon
An in-depth study on Imazon, a Brazilian nonprofit promoting sustainable development of the Amazon.
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Case Study: VisionSpring
An in-depth study on VisionSpring, a global nonprofit creating affordable access to eyewear, everywhere.
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