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Growth Strategy |
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Organization growth can be both exhilarating and exhausting. While it holds the promise of greater impact, there’s complexity on every side. Where should you grow? How quickly? Are your staff and systems ready? How will you get the necessary capital?
In our work with clients, we have come at this challenge from a variety of angles. Some clients have grown by sharing their program models with other organizations. Others have opened affiliates across the nation. The common thread, though, is that they have thought systematically about the decision to grow, and about the steps they could take to help their growth initiatives succeed.
The materials collected here all deal with aspects of growth, with a particular focus on replicating programs that have demonstrated results. In Going to Scale, Jeff Bradach offers a broad overview of replication in the social sector. The case studies provide examples of nonprofit organizations mapping out their growth strategies; the MY TURN business plan provides a window into one organization’s blueprint for growth.
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OF INTEREST |
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Articles and Papers
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Going to Scale:
The Challenge of Replicating Social Programs
With few exceptions, most nonprofits in the United States operate in a single neighborhood, town, or city. How can proven nonprofit programs increase their reach? |
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Growth of Youth-Serving Organizations
What factors were critical in shaping how 20 youth-serving organizations grew, and what were the major consequences of their growth? |
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Getting Replication Right: The Decisions That Matter Most
Ultimately, a few key decisions will lead to successful organization replication, but they are more complex than they might at first appear.
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Case Studies
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Aspire Public Schools: Building the Organizational Capacity for Healthy Growth
Two years into an aggressive expansion plan, the leaders of Aspire Public Schools found themselves overtaxed and concerned about maintaining quality outcomes. This case study follows their efforts to strengthen their organization so that it could meet both the immediate and longer-term demands of growth. |
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Nurse-Family Partnership: Organizing for National Expansion
How could NFP make its proven model available to every low-income, first-time mother in the country? |
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The Steppingstone Foundation:
Managing Growth
How a Boston educational-services nonprofit is realizing its own potential for growth so that its scholars can realize theirs. |
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Larkin Street Youth Services: Sustaining Success
Why do some organizations succeed year after year, while others are unable to sustain outstanding results for more than a year or two at a time? |
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MY TURN, Inc.: Building on Success (2007)
After successfully completing a three-year growth plan in two years, this community-based youth development agency was primed for more. What were the right next steps?
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MY TURN, Inc.: Preparing for Regional Growth (2005)
MY TURN’s management needed a clear strategy for guiding regional growth.
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Growth of Youth-Serving Organizations Case Studies |
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Sample Business Plans
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MY TURN, Inc
National Academy Foundation
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