Scaling What Works

A GEO Action Network

An independent coalition of more than 20 grantmakers has made investments that will extend the reach, learning and impact of the Social Innovation Fund and other philanthropic efforts to bring effective nonprofit programs to scale. Scaling What Works, a nearly $5 million, three-year project of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, will leverage what grantmakers are learning about how to best expand solutions to society’s most pressing problems. By clarifying what’s working on the ground, this project will ensure that public and private resources, including SIF dollars, can more effectively flow to the highest performing nonprofits. + more

Other Resources
•     White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
•     Corporation for National and Community Service
•     GEO Media Advisory

Project Supporters
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Blue Ridge Foundation New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Duke Endowment
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Ford Foundation
George Kaiser Family Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The Joyce Foundation
The Kresge Foundation
Lumina Foundation for Education
New Profit Inc.
Open Society Foundations
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
SeaChange Capital Partners
Surdna Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Scaling What Works Objectives

• Serve as ongoing convener and conduit between the field of philanthropy and the public agencies involved with the Social Innovation Fund with the hope of building effective partnerships between philanthropy and the public sector that can speed the pace at which community solution scale;
• Expand the number of grantmakers nationally who are prepared to support the evidence base, capacity and growth of promising nonprofits; and
  
• Support collaborative learning and action among the network of grantmaking intermediaries funded by the SIF so they can most effectively invest public and private resources, and so the lessons they learn are translated for the larger field.
  

For more information or to join our Scaling What Works mailing list for updates on the initiative, please e-mail us at ScalingWhatWorks@geofunders.org.