A New Look at Pathways for Solving Social Problems at Scale
- ecmadore2
- Jun 11, 2025
- 1 min read
The end goal of a social entrepreneur is to improve or eliminate social problems.
You can’t improve anything without change.
Social change is always resisted.
The more significant the change you attempt the more intense the resistance will be.
This article offers an update on earlier work by the Bridgespan Group on scaling impact to deliver meaningful change.
“For this update, we examined the strategies of approximately 80 organizations and interviewed the leaders of 11 of these organizations on their journeys to scale their impact.
This article provides an updated guide to the pathways, or core strategy components, that nonprofits and NGOs use to deliver outsized impact on social problems while keeping their organizations’ size and growth manageable. The organizations were located in Asis, Africa and the USA.


Note to Reader: Suggest reading the complete article, and Module 9, Scaling Impact in the Practitioner Guide
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