I’m delighted with the recent Ernst & Young report, Thinking big: How to accelerate the growth of women-owned companies, which matches what I’ve found from talking with high-growth women entrepreneurs. With the number of women-owned businesses increasing yearly, accelerating their growth is important.

Is Your Nonprofit Ready to Scale? Get a Leg Up with Business Plan Competition

by Geri Stengel on Nov 1, 2011 - 12:20am

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As you know, I am a big fan of business plans for nonprofits so it will come as no surprise when I tell you to check out the Social Impact Exchange’s 2012 Business Plan Competition. The competition gives nonprofits with a proven track record -- that means some impact metrics -- a chance for coaching, money and a place in the funding spotlight. Even if you don’t make it to the final round, you’ll learn a lot along the way.

Bring Your Hard Heads to Social Investing

by Guest Blogger on Jun 29, 2011 - 12:20pm

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Last week’s second annual Social Impact Exchange conference was filled with high energy, creativity, and a sincere dedication to improving people’s lives by scaling up evidence-based or high-performing social interventions. While many in the room represented philanthropic foundations, individual donors have been and are still the largest source of funding for the nonprofit sector. How can we create markets that successfully tap these sources of wealth for greater social return?

What Every Nonprofit Needs to Know About Scaling Impact

by Geri Stengel on Jun 2, 2011 - 12:54am

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The social sector is at a tipping point, a place where great changes in process must take place so great social change can happen:

The economy shifted.
Funding sources have realigned.
New funding options – private/public partnerships – are evolving.
The world itself – water resources, illness, poverty – has changed. Social ills are so massive that massive projects are needed to address them.
Technology now allows us to solve old problems with new techniques and to reach across borders, across cultures, and across sectors to find solutions and partners.

Don’t Get Bigger Unless You Get Better: Lessons From Micro-credit

by Geri Stengel on Mar 22, 2011 - 12:08am

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Microfinance has become the poster child for troubling growth and questionable nonprofit/for-profit cross-overs. Is it the rapid growth or too much emphasis on investor returns or not enough government regulation that has led to suicides by borrowers and a request for Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus, founder of the movement, to step down from Grameen Bank.

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Ventureneer to Host Social Impact Exchange Conference Bloggers

by Geri Stengel on Jun 10, 2010 - 8:00am

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I am delighted to announce that Ventureneer will be partnering with Adin Miller Consulting to provide a one-stop resource for insights and news from the Social Impact Exchange: Taking Successful Innovation to Scale on June 17 and 18, 2010.