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On this page you will find resources, tools, and websites related to scaling up and sustaining social innovation.
Wherever possible, links are provided directly to the resource described. This listing of resources will grow as AD/SSI participants share resources and learning material they find in the course of doing their own learning and work.
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“This paper examines the long-term sustainability of grant-funded projects beyond their initial funding period and identifies approaches that can be used to enhance sustainability. Fundamentally, the paper suggests that sustainability can best be achieved through an integrated holistic approach that is applied systematically throughout all aspects of a project’s life cycle.”
“A report summarizing the findings of workshops and presentations undertaken through a two-year project, including common themes and innovative community practice. It also includes an analysis of the different proposals for funding reform raised over the course of the project.”
- The Finance Project. Sustainability planning workbook (2002) - helps users clarify their vision, identify key issues in sustaining their work, and develop strategies to achieve their long-term goals.
An overview of the Ford Foundation’s experience in supporting the scaling up of initiatives in the US and overseas, with recommendations for funders.
A thoughtful examination of how to "spread and sustain what works" in programs that promote social change. Though the context is the U.S., the lessons are universal and the numerous in-depth examples effectively illustrate her conclusions and recommendations.
This brochure, aimed at grantees, addresses the ways policies shape, hamper, or encourage social progress.
Simon Zadek, chief executive of AccountAbility, introduces a new debate on openDemocracy that explores a new
generation of accountability mechanisms focussed on the horizontal, not the hierarchical.
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New approaches to financing:
- Venturesome
aims to be a financial partner, which supports charitable
work achieving high social impact by providing loans and
investments. They provide custom-built funding for charities,
who aim to repay the money and fill the gap in the financing
spectrum between grants and bank loans.
Knowledge and tools for social innovation learning and impact:
- The Berkana Exchange
- The Berkana Exchange at the Berkana Institute connects pioneering leaders throughout the globe around their shared commitment to making a difference in and beyond their communities.
- Changemakers
- Changemakers.net is an
Ashoka initiative that connects the insights of Ashoka's
social entrepreneurs with the best work in the citizen sector
to spark action on a global scale.
- Pioneers of Change
- Pioneers of Change is a global learning network of
young people, in their 20's and 30's, who have committed
to be themselves, do what matters, start now, engage with
others, and never stop asking questions.
- Society
for Organizational Learning - SoL was formed
in April of 1997 to continue the work of MIT's Center for
Organizational Learning (1991-1997). Peter
Senge, author of the The Fifth Discipline: the Art
and Practice of the Learning Organization is the founding
Chairman. It connects corporations and organizations, researchers
and consultants to generate knowledge about and capacity
for fundamental innovation and change by engaging in collaborative
action inquiry projects.”
- Skoll
Foundation - Social Edge is a program of the
Skoll Foundation that was inspired by Jeff Skoll's commitment
to connecting people with shared passions. Its mission is
to: connect social entrepreneurs, their partners and allies
to discuss cutting-edge issues shaping the field; foster
frank dialogue, mutual respect and a sense of community
among all in the sector; promote learning from the best,
promising and disastrous practices.
- Stanford Social Innovation Review - A quarterly journal of case studies and resources for people interested in social innovation, e.g.,“Scaling Social Impact: Strategies for spreading social innovations” by Gregory Dees, Beth Battle Anderson and Jane Wei-skillern, Spring 2004
- Theory
of Change - “A joint venture between
ActKnowledge
and the Aspen
Institute Roundtable on Community Change, it is an interactive
online suite of tools for creating, sharing and using Theories
of Change (which are) an innovative tool to design and evaluate
social change initiatives. By creating a blueprint of the
building blocks required to achieve a social change initiative’s
long-term goal, such as improving a neighborhood’s
literacy levels or academic achievement, a Theory of Change
offers a clear roadmap to achieve your results identifying
the preconditions, pathways and interventions necessary
for an initiative’s success.”
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 Thinking
Like a Movement - Thinking like a
movement necessitates the consideration of the
complexities of systemic change including an exploration
of sustaining social innovation and the role of
leadership. Al Etmanski and Vickie Cammack are
prime Canadian examples of social innovators and
movement leaders. Tamarack spoke with them about
what it means to “think like a movement.”
Learn more in this online seminar here.
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Thinking Like a Movement - How do we move from creating social innovations to sustaining them? That is, how do we embed them into our social systems and institutions so that they endure? This Philia dialogue looks at the working principles, patterns and attributes that contribute to the sustainability of innovations - in particular, those that address "intractable" social problems.
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