Social Franchising Accelerator – insights from Rockefeller Foundation
Today Rockefeller Foundation publish an insights report on innovative accelerator programmes globally. ICSF, Bertha Centre and Franchising Plus run one of the innovative accelerators evaluated and case...
View ArticleSuccessful Replication needs a Supportive Board
by Greg Coussa Replication isn’t easy. It’s a process that takes time, resources, and frequently, a good whisky. Having a supportive Board of Directors when taking on the challenging task of...
View ArticleSocial Franchising and The Quest for Sustainable Scale
By Martha Paren At ICSF what drives us is scale – helping organisations scale up their social impact. But in a context where donor and charitable funding is often under threat, scale has to go hand in...
View ArticleWhen Healthcare goes Viral: Using Social Franchising to Achieve Scale
Health Systems Hub: An interview with Dan Berelowitz A dominant and consistent problem of developing country health markets is their level of fragmentation. The public and the private sectors operate...
View ArticleICSF launch the Social Replication Toolkit
Do you have a solution to a social problem that you know works? Does it urgently need to replicate across your district, country or the world? Hunger, crime, and homelessness: social innovations...
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Profit is Not a Dirty Word
By Marcia Cardamore, PSI philanthropic partner Sustainability is an all too overused word that is rarely linked to the word profit. Yet sustainability and profit go hand in hand. When it comes to...
View ArticleStanford, Dirty Floors, and Forbes
By Greg Coussa Last April, I had the honor of being one of the judges at the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Social Innovation Fellowship competition. One after the other, Stanford’s social...
View ArticleReplication beyond cookie-cutter molds: six crucial steps to shape...
By Matt Towner. Every so often I read a blog or an article that says replication is not about taking an intervention and dropping it into a new location. Sometimes, articles will stress the supremacy...
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Turning the Micro-Entrepreneur into a Business Owner
If you have spent time in a developing country, the sight of an entrepreneur selling their wares from a large dish on their head, or maybe offering up a tray of trinkets as you briefly stop at a train...
View ArticleICSF research launch: Scaling Up Primary Care
Today, ICSF and the Toronto Health Organization Performance Evaluation (T-HOPE) team at the University of Toronto publish a groundbreaking report on ways to scale up primary care in low and...
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