Scaling impact, or impact at scale?

Scaling impact, or impact at scale?

25th April 2023

Scaling impact, or impact at scale?

SCALING IMPACT OR IMPACT AT SCALE?

One of the biggest challenges in the development, humanitarian and social sectors is scaling the work undertaken by a large range of stakeholders to bring about greater impact on multidimensional levels.

In this presentation below we aim to provide guidance for achieving greater impact at scale. We do this as we recognize that to have more meaningful and sustainable impact at greater scale, we may have to change the way we think about development and do development.

We trust this resource will add value to the work of practitioners, funders, grantmakers, donors, philanthropists and social investors as well as the social purpose organisations whose main objective and mission is to bring about large scale impact and sustainable development.

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