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Scaling Global Change

Author Cory Heyman , Erin Ganju
Release Date: 2018/04/01
ISBN: 9781119483854
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Book Description

Grow your start-up into a global influence with real-world impact

Scaling Global Change provides social entrepreneurs with the strong organizational foundation they need to change the world. Through the story of Room to Read, one of the fastest-growing nonprofits in the last 18 years, this book features clear, real-world lessons for growing a non-profit or social enterprise, with special insight into girls’ education and literacy programming in lower-income countries. By outlining theories of program, operational, and system-level change, the discussion delves into the meat of the entrepreneurial spirit and applies it directly to everyday strategic decisions.

The book begins with an overview of essential communication, vision, and execution fundamentals, and then dives into a discussion of metrics, monitoring, planning, leadership, and more. Clear guidance on internal operations, fundraising, team building, management, and other central topics provides a roadmap for new and experienced leaders, while further exploration of influence, strategy, and government funding relates the wisdom of experience from the perspective of a successful organization.   

  • Cross the chasm from start-up to mature organization with worldwide impact
  • Gain insight into the theoretical and practical underpinnings of nonprofit success
  • Adopt new perspectives on effectiveness, excellence, and influence
  • Translate ideas into action in a way that will change the world

Social entrepreneurship has taken off more than ever, and the market is crowded with optimistic leaders wanting to change the world. How do you differentiate your organization from the pack? How can you stand out, stand up, and make a real impact? These lessons are gained through experience and building a strong organizational culture; Room to Read has treaded this path and found itself at the heights of success. With Scaling Global Change, you reap the benefit of experiential lessons while applying them to the success of your own organization. 

**All Royalties from the sale of Scaling Global Change will be donated directly to Room To Read**

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the Authors
  4. I: Framing the Issues
    1. 1 Introduction: Go Big or Go Home
      1. The Rise (and Often Fall) of the Entrepreneurial Social Enterprise
      2. Who We Are
      3. Big Ambitions
      4. Smashing the Sophomore Slump
      5. We Do It Because We Love It!
      6. Note
    2. 2 Vision and Execution: Framing the Issues
      1. Negotiating Urgent and Important Issues in Social Endeavors
      2. The Nonprofit Two-Step (Cha-cha-cha?)
      3. The Three-Legged Stool Supporting a Theory of Change
      4. From Start-Up to Maturity, and Everything Between
      5. Notes
    3. 3 Communications: Telling the Story
      1. Planning Your Communications
      2. Start-Up Stage: Building the Personality of Your Brand
      3. Transition Phase: Widening the Circle
      4. Mature Phase: Amplifying the Message
      5. Key Takeaways
  5. II: What We Do
    1. 4 Programs: A Theory (of Change) Is Just a Theory Until It Is Turned into Action
      1. Starting Off Right
      2. The Right Issues
      3. Evolving Our Program Approach
      4. The Right Content
      5. The Right Approach at the Right Time
      6. Key Takeaways
      7. Notes
    2. 5 Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation: What Gets Measured, Gets Done
      1. Creating a Culture of Data Collection and Use
      2. Incentives and Disincentives for Creating a Culture of Data Collection and Learning
      3. Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation at Room to Read
      4. RM&E at Different Phases of Organizational Development
      5. Program Implementation Monitoring: Identifying Problems and Clues for Resolving Them
      6. Next Steps
      7. Key Takeaways
      8. Notes
  6. III: How We Do It
    1. 6 Administration, Finance, and International Operations
      1. A Tale of Two Libraries
      2. Overall Approach to Program Implementation
      3. Strengthening the Implementation Chain
      4. The Three Phases of Program Implementation
      5. External Technical Assistance
      6. The Pendulum Swingeth
      7. Key Takeaways
    2. 7 People Management: Changing the World Is a Team Sport
      1. What Is Really Core in Your Core Values
      2. Leadership in the Social Enterprise
      3. Attracting Top Talent
      4. Retaining and Scaling Top Talent as You Grow
      5. Founder’s Syndrome
      6. Key Takeaways
    3. 8 Fundraising: Defining and Selling the Value Proposition
      1. Fundraising Is Not a Dirty Business
      2. Phase I Fundraising Best Practices: The Lean Start-Up Years (Approximately $0–$3 Million)
      3. Phase II Fundraising Best Practices: Rapid Growth Years ($3 Million–$30 Million)
      4. Phase III Fundraising Best Practices: Maturing and Stabilizing Years ($30 Million–$100+ Million)
      5. Key Takeaways
  7. IV: Scaling for Global Change
    1. 9 Strategic Influence: Growing Our Impact
      1. Scale and Influence: Defining the End Game
      2. The Unique Role of ESEs in Scaling Social Change
      3. Expanding Room to Read’s Role as an Influencer
      4. Influencing Governments
      5. Networks of Influence
      6. Key Takeaways
      7. Note
    2. 10 Government Funding: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
      1. The Triangular Partnership
      2. To Take Government Funding or Not to Take Government Funding—The Ongoing Question
      3. The Challenge of Big Box Development
      4. Limited but Strategic Participation in Government-Funded Projects
      5. A Slippery Slope
      6. A Complex Innovation
      7. Having Our Cake and Eating It, Too
      8. Early Impressions
      9. Who Owns It?
      10. Key Takeaways
      11. Note
    3. 11 Strategic Planning: Wrapping It All Up
      1. Strategic Planning: Bringing It All Together
      2. Conclusion: Wrapping It All Up
  8. Index
  9. End User License Agreement