Measure Impact with These Five Tips
In her debut piece in this series about the challenges of Lean Impact, Ann Mei Chang identifies impact measurement as one of the top 10 challenges for social innovation. “Quantifying impact” she says, “is much…
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Three Learnings from the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator’s Lean Impact Pilot
Iterate. Iterate. Iterate. Although better solutions tend to come from iteration, it can often be a counter-intuitive way to work in large-scale development projects. Not because those who work in the sector don’t see or…
Experimenting with Electric Vehicles in Kigali
Imagine… You are a farmer in rural Mozambique. You have a cough. You walk five miles to your nearest health clinic to have a tuberculosis test. Two weeks later you go back to find out…
What Makes Lean Impact Harder: Top 10 Challenges for Social Innovation
The Lean Startup has helped businesses of all stripes manage risk and maximize their potential by listening to customers, running experiments, and driving fast feedback loops. Nowhere do we find bigger problems and greater uncertainty…
An Introduction to Lean Impact
Lean Startup ideas are being applied more and more often in non-profits, B-corps and other mission-driven organizations. As the ideas have spread in this world, they’ve come to be known as Lean Impact, and best…
My First Lean Startup Adventure
Are you an impatient social changemaker? Are you looking for different ways to test if your organization’s latest idea can plausibly have impact? Then you might have heard of the Lean Startup, which advocates, “experimentation…
Lean + Bootcamp Workout For A Social Impact Project
This article by Kate Ettinger was originally posted on Ideas That Impact. I attended a Lean Impact Workshop by Leanne Pittsford of Start Somewhere where we used the Javelin Board to practice the Lean method on a social impact project. Within an afternoon, we identified…
How To Hire a Lean Startup Master to Run Your Online Engagement Program
Earlier this week the Executive Director of a state-based environmental organization here in Oregon dropped me a note asking for input on a job description her team was in the process of drafting. Her organization…
What Does Lean Startup For Social Good Look Like – An Interview With Dutiee
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries has become a revolutionary movement most widely leveraged in the tech and startup circuits. There are numerous blogs, meetups, and now even The Lean Startup Conference dedicated to how entrepreneurs…
A Lean Startup + Social Good POW WOW With Eric Ries & Beth Kanter
This past couple months have been such an exciting time for Lean Startup innovators in the social good space – We had an incredibly successful first Lean For Social Good Summit in NYC on December…