Scale

Sarita Upadhyay reflects on her initial years at Medha, when the team got an opportunity to scale the organisation’s programme. However, decisions based on assumptions and an overall lack of preparedness resulted in the team losing out on almost two years of work.

Five lessons for organisations looking to evaluate their scaling efforts both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Learning the importance of strategy and communication when planning for scale.

Gary Cohen, founder of Healthcare Without Harm, talks about how the expectations on social entrepreneurs take a toll on their health, why large-scale change requires inner work, and more.

Scaling your organisation while staying true to your values, and keeping your team at the heart of what you do.

Why are alternate funding routes closed to nonprofits, and what can funders do to break the cycle of dependency?

Lessons from MacArthur Foundation's USD 100 million grant on funding long-term change.

Redefining what we mean when we say 'participation' could lead us to approach scale in a way that takes into account local realities.

An organisation’s growth is easier to measure than the effect it has on the people it serves. If attention and energies are directed towards outcomes instead, size becomes secondary, and not worth worrying too much about.

"Many interventions and businesses find themselves in a Catch 22: They need to show that they’re both innovative and scalable – but being scalable makes it harder for them to be innovative."