Key Takeaways: Financing impact at scale

Too busy to read the articles, or need a takeaway to summarize what you learned? We created a synthesized version of our work which explores lessons in financing from a pool of 100+ social entrepreneurs recognized by global funders for their experience in scaling their impact.

Strategies include those:

• exploring external funding — bringing in a mix of capital types and sources to fuel scale.
• engaging internal/operational levers — leveraging resources within your organization to power scale.

For each strategy, we provide a list of common mistakes and top tips.

Find the checklist here, and the full PDF of the Financing for Scaled Impact paper here.

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This article was written by Catherine Clark, Erin Worsham, Kimberly Langsam, and Ellen Martin, and released in March 2018.