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Full Report PDF & Overview: Money Matters

Full Report PDF & Overview: Money Matters

As social enterprises drive toward scaled impact, the journey can be accelerated — or significantly slowed — by the strategies and tactics…
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Set the Course: Rules of the road for financing scale

Set the Course: Rules of the road for financing scale

Every organization undergoes an evolution of capital over time. But how do you ensure that that evolution supports your scaling goals…
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Key Takeaways: Financing impact at scale

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…
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Scaling through Disruption: Money Matters

Scaling through Disruption: Money Matters

Insights & advice on managing your finances and investors during a mass disruption, in interviews with leading social enterprise leaders.
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Fuel Up: Bring in External Resources
Find Flexible Capital

Find Flexible Capital

Experienced social entrepreneurs cite flexibility as the most important attribute of external financing, giving them the room to iterate…
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Diversify Funding — including through impact investing

Diversify Funding — including through impact investing

Aiming to create funding relationships with a diverse group of funders has several advantages, and may be legally required for nonprofits…
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Leverage Results-Based Financing (RBF)

Leverage Results-Based Financing (RBF)

Many organizations around the world are starting to experiment with results-based financing (RBF), where a payer (a foundation…
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Four Steps to Avoid Dead-End Impact Investing Leads

Four Steps to Avoid Dead-End Impact Investing Leads

Originally posted March 7, 2018 in NextBillion.
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Put it in Gear: Use Internal Operational Levers
Earn Some of Your Income

Earn Some of Your Income

Earning income can be a powerful tool to fuel the scaling journey. Money gained through earned income is unrestricted, not subject to…
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Reduce Your Costs

Reduce Your Costs

Entrepreneurs continually reduce ongoing costs in many ways, including making improvements to the model that decrease operating costs…
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Leverage Hybrid Legal Forms

Leverage Hybrid Legal Forms

Social enterprises are increasingly exploring the strategy of creating hybrid forms to expand impact and income. Hybrid models bind…
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Taking Control of the Value for Money Narrative: How Innovative Metrics Are Making Impact Part of…

Taking Control of the Value for Money Narrative: How Innovative Metrics Are Making Impact Part of…

How can enterprises use this metric to work toward increasing financial self-sufficiency and/or cost efficiency while maintaining impact?
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